Resentment building up at work re parents / non parents

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In my work place, the parents with no emergency childcare have been sent home . Obviously they have no choice on this as can't bring their kids to work.
The childless (me included - or those with older kids) are to stay and work unless we display any symptoms or are firmly in the at risk category.
As far as we know, all the parents and kids so far are fine - healthy and isolating. (so called, as FB says different for some!)
The resentment amongst my co workers is huge. The parents are at home on full pay. We are having to do some really crappy jobs (extra jobs) with a limited work force. We are all having to do jobs completely outside our normal remit. Things we have no training for , no experience in.
The atmosphere is awful. I am in no way resentful to my co workers who are parents as we know this is a crazy situation, but none of us working feel valued. My boss also knows I have an underlying health condition but as I don't display any worrying symptoms she said they need me to be there 'because the parents cannot be'. I actually want to work. I couldn't stand being at home, and want to keep busy (we are no longer working with the public...we stopped that). But it's so toxic. My co workers are moaning all day. Whereas I was accepting of the situation I'm now feeling very negative. My employers have made us feel we are doing a 'special' job to support the parents, but in fact this has been the case my entire working life. (nearly 3 decades) in terms of parents always had priority, in whatever job I had. Of course this is a situation no one could ever have foreseen.
All i want to do is just go in each day and do my job, go home. I know everyone has a right to moan and be pissed off but morale is so low. Don't know how to switch off from it especially when my colleagues don't understand why I WANT to be there. They say it's unfair the others are being paid to be at home watching Disney with the kids while we are doing horrible work in a stressful situation. That the parents can go shopping when they want, they have an advantage over us, etc. Can walk the dog etc while we are working anti social hours. And will all be doing extra hours in the weeks or months to come. (I've already been doing mainly 7 days a week for months, and am exhausted)
If I carry on listening to it all I'm going to start feeling resentful too and I don't want that. It's not me and I want to keep our team going as best we can.
Not really asking for a solution here as don't see one! just needed to vent a bit

I don't want to depress the OP further, but. sadly, this situation is going to get worse rather than better. Because the schools have only just closed, so parents will be doing less work rather than more. Also, many of these parents will get sick or the other parent will (like in my DH's case). Some of you who are not parents will get sick too. (Sadly, some people may die.)

I think the current situation is untenable and a lot of workplaces won't survive this. (This is why the government are preparing to intervene with financial packages.)

No, they are not working from home, as said before, it's (non essential) retail. We (still working) are all working behind closed doors of the store . My manager is the only one who can do 'some' work from home. She didn't want to be home but was ordered to,

Mittens, I'm certain some of us working will get sick, just from mingling with each other. plus we are next to a huge supermarket and most people go there before or after work (can't get delivery slots so needs must.. me included)

HopeYou, that's great, pleased for your DD who must be so exhausted. Sounds like a very good company.
Mine is and they just can't send that many people home. We can't work from home and there's hundreds of us

If they can't work from home, then what are they supposed to do, with the kids now off school? Most childminders have closed down their activities and parents have been told that they can't ask grandparents, both of these are the options outside school most used.

They may have caused this reaction by being CFs in the past over school holiday cover and Christmas, but this one isn't their fault.

I know that, Mittens! There's nothing they can do. They can't bring kids to work. The resentment has now swung a bit, from the non parents to the parents still working who are moaning about not seeing their kids or being able to brave the supermarkets when they want. They know it's a shit situation but are resentful of the ones getting to see their kids loads. And some of the at home parents have been flooding FB with photos of picnics and seaside

Well, they're being entirely irresponsible in that case. Not because of what isn't their fault but because they're putting themselves and others at risk. That really pisses me off, as someone who is suffering from COVID-19 in all likelihood.

The government has to impose a lockdown for all our sakes.