"I work in a school surrounded by kids but cannot see my family" - anyone sick of hearing this?

[coffeeforone]

It's totally unfair - everyone gets it! It's shit for most people. But this line/situation obviously affects all who work in education settings (a lots of people I know) and is really starting to irritate as it's being spouted much more often than most other complaints.

True I know, and it doesn't make sense to lots of people...but what's the solution? Close schools so everyone can see family instead?

Many folk, including myself are working without any social distancing.
I work in a class of thirty children and social distancing is a pipe dream.
My husband and mother are vulnerable.
I don't wear a mask as it might upset the children! I'm just counting the days til I get the virus to pass on to my family.

Lots of people don't agree with the rules because they don't like being treated like 5-year-olds. Do you really think the staff in the pub are keeping an eye on every single customer? I have no desire to go to the pub with 50 other people who may have been out with 50 different people every night for a week, but I want to be able to sit in my garden and drink tea with one friend at a time. Luckily that's still allowed where I live - for now. We are perfectly capable of not hugging and keeping two metres apart, or a metre, or whatever the distance of the week is. Just because some irresponsible people think rules don't apply to them and wear their masks with their noses sticking out, doesn't mean plenty of us are not capable of doing the right thing, following the guidelines and protecting ourselves. I have been against punishing the many for the actions of the few since I was 5. I won't break the rules but I refuse to be grateful about them.

@LouiseNW

If I worked in a school I’d want to keep other contacts to an absolute minimum, for their sake rather than mine.

‘But because I don’t my DC have sleepovers with 10 friends and I hug the other mums at the school gate’

I always find it amazing that teacher bashers have so many teacher friends Tbh. AIBU to think that they are just reading the Daily Hail and/ or a Mumsnet website ‘reporter’?