Wish I wasn't a teacher because of Covid

[NebularNerd]

In my family/friends circle, I am the only one who will be face to face with 150+ people per day with no PPE, no social distancing, nothing.

I have one relative who is not expecting to return to the office this year.
Another who now only works in the office two days per week, in a building where numbers are severely restricted, one way systems, spaced out desks etc.
Another friend who is also able to wfh for the foreseeable future.

I can't help but think that had I made a different career choice I would not now be faced with contracting a potentially life threatening virus and passing it on to my clinically extremely vulnerable husband or elderly parents.

I will go to work and try to ignore what's going on in the world and do my best. But I wish I could be made to feel safer - screens, masks, fewer pupils, something.

I hope I'm worrying for nothing, but it is getting difficult to sleep at night.

@CallmeAngelina

My mother used to have coffee mornings back in the 70s, with lots of screeching women all dolled up. She had a one of those percolator thingies that made scary gurgling noises, with posh biscuits that we kids never got a look in with.

Coffee mornings! What life was like before this year

Had to laugh at the posh biscuits bit. With my kids they get the biscuits & I'm lucky if I see a crumb, nevermind taste one.

Everything that MilesJuppIsMyBitch has posted is factual

No it is not. MilesJuppIsMyBitch is not quoting real comments.

You really should report me if you think that, you know.

Go on. You know you want to.

I still don't understand why it's deemed essential everyone wear a mask in shops (which I agree with) but somehow schools are different

It isn't essential. Shop workers have a choice but that choice is recent because when the covid infection was at its worse, far higher than it is now or has been for months, there was a shortage of PPE of any kind and masks were not available. There was also a shortage of hand sanitiser

Now, interesting question, in whose interest is it to cast doubt on my copy & paste?

I mean, it'd be easy enough for anyone to scroll through, and if they did, they'd see all those comments.

As would MNHQ if you reported me.

So what would motivate you to lie? I wonder.

You really should report me if you think that, you know.

Go on. You know you want to.

I dont want to report you. I'm against censorship, unless someone is breaking the law or using hate speech

We don’t see the sort of defensiveness of some teachers on mn from any other profession- I do wonder why. No one else claims that you are just “bashing” their profession if you dare criticize their industry. No one else has the oh so funny bingo. No one else claims any criticism is a Russian conspiracy. It’s a strange mentality. Maybe it’s just the clique on here - I do hope so’, ‘our two schools did diddly squat.’, ‘I was doing my bit by helping others and by especially helping and talking to some of the elderly customers who were nervous and scared.’ (But I think teachers who are nervous and scared shouldn’t be teaching). ‘How is this different to anyone else working in a supermarket or restaurant or pub? ‘But it's very unlikely that those breathing will ha e the infection. Its not the dark days of March and April anymore’, ‘Let's just hope no teacher dies or is left with long term health issues: But that's the risk we all have to take’
‘so many comments on teacher threads seem irrational ‘,’just complain and bitch online’, ‘Make a stand or accept the situation. ‘
‘Instead of complaining do something constructive about it. ‘, ‘ I want my children to be taught by confident teachers who have a passion for seeing their pupils thrive.’ And yet here I am adding to the kicking).
‘I hope you all enjoy your time back at your job, working and contributing to our society as it should be.’ ‘If you don't like it leave.’ ‘14 weeks paid holiday.’ ‘It's not exactly working a covid ward with rubbish ppe, 12 hour shifts for weeks on end, less pay and watching people die now is it! ‘, ‘It's a vocation.’ ‘The amount of hand wringing on here from teachers gives us all a bad name’, ‘perhaps you should consider being signed off work if you cannot rationalise the risks involved’, ‘What about the supermarket workers who have been in close contact/no PPE throughout the pandemic. The hospital workers who have been exposed? Bus drivers.’, ‘This virus needs to be lived with.’, ‘you either suck it up or don't go in’, ‘I'm not sure what else you want to happen’, ‘This is so out of proportion it's unreal’, ‘Are you scared of flu?’, ‘they don't put people on ventilators as much’, ‘Sick of this shit’, ‘This fear only seems to have gripped Mumsnet’, ‘This is not the bubonic plague’, ‘children have suffered the most throughout all this and if you (teachers) can't see that then maybe you should take up a different career’, ‘these teacher on here are wetting the bed every night about a tiny risk.’, ‘mental health in children has always been there’, ‘what other job would you feel safer in?’, ‘they just don't have the option to sit home on full pay,’, ‘It could be worse, we could be in Beirut or Colombia’, ‘ I'm sure you are not irreplaceable’, ‘Any comment from teachers about the restaurant workers working 7 days currently? ‘, ‘If you are that scared/anxious of the virus then please do resign’, ‘you're talking like you're the only people on earth who are at risk of COVID’, ‘Think of the children ‘,

‘I think teachers (and some other professions now returning to work) have had way too much time on their hands to overthink and dwell on all things covid related. ‘ ‘At the end there are things we have no power to change but there are still things we can do to protect ourselves.’
‘Surely it must be reassuring that the only people who believe teachers are at incredible risk are in fact teachers?’
‘If you have underlying health conditions I suggest you try and get signed off by your GP, I have colleagues that have done this. If it’s just anxiety then you must realise that the vast majority of healthy adults either are symptomless or have mild versions of Covid. I’m not bashing you I’m trying to make you feel better.’, ‘I think it's harder to understand what's been going on out there in the workplace if you've been working from home for the last 6 months and its understandable that all kinds of fears might get blown out of proportion because you're not used to it’, ‘People are not criticising teachers, I think they're more not understanding what the fears are. ‘, ‘ We are just trying to make you feel less scared if anything. It’s not teacher bashing.’,

I mean, it'd be easy enough for anyone to scroll through, and if they did, they'd see all those comments

I've already done that. What you are posting as quotes, in quotation mark's, is not copy and paste. You are posting your idea of what you think they meant to say, your interpretation. Not what they actually said

Nope

Anything can seem bad out of context, though Miles. I could post quotes from teachers that suggest they think all parents are thick and that all children are snotty germ spreaders but what is the point out of context it’s meaninglessness.

@Flaxmeadow, What on earth are you on about?
We have all SEEN (and been the object of) the toxic quotes that Jupp has pasted.
I remember the vast majority of them as I've been on the threads.

@stairway

Anything can seem bad out of context, though Miles. I could post quotes from teachers that suggest they think all parents are thick and that all children are snotty germ spreaders but what is the point out of context it’s meaninglessness.

I can't say for all children but MY DC are snotty germ spreaders!

Anything can seem bad out of context, though Miles
Just as bad IN context, stairway,

I could post quotes from teachers Go ahead. We stand by anything we've said, and if MNHQ had an issue, they would have deleted.

We have all SEEN (and been the object of) the toxic quotes that Jupp has pasted

The share them with
The posters name
The page
The time stamp

they think all parents are thick
I'd really love to know who it is that you believe said this about "all" parents. Come on, back it up with a direct link please, or we will disregard the claim.

@Flaxmeadow

We have all SEEN (and been the object of) the toxic quotes that Jupp has pasted

The share them with
The posters name
The page
The time stamp

Can you not just read the quotes she's pasted? I'm sure you may even see some of the things you've put there and then you won't need your name, the date or the time you said it, would you?

Remembering, of course, that most teachers are also parents.

I stand by everything I said as well. Have a nice week back at school dear teachers, may you remain free of covid :)

Run an advanced search for them, if you're that interested, Flaxmeadow. We're not doing your dirty work for you.
Not that there's any need.

Once teachers get a few weeks back into it they'll wonder what all the fuss had been about.
I'm three weeks back in, and have had my first Covid test (thankfully negative). My worries are increasing not decreasing.

Working in a Care home at the height of the pandemic, now that was scary!
I do get how you feel though. I didn't want to go to work, I was petrified of getting it and passing it onto my family, some of whom are vulnerable but I had to as the people I work with can't care for themselves.

Mistressiggi

Oh yes, @Mistressiggi, in Scotland, where the infection rates are higher than they've been in months.
But no doubt the fuckwits deniers on here will dismiss those stats too.

Run an advanced search for them, if you're that interested, Flaxmeadow. We're not doing your dirty work for you.
Not that there's any need

How can you ru an advanced search when the poster in question is not
Quoting in bold
Separating quotes and naming who is being quoted
Using the quote facility (even though they know how to)

It's just a stream of mixed quotes, supposedly from a number off other posters, all jumbled up with misquotes and their own opinion. The posts dont even have paragraphs

It's the house parties don't you know (wonder which house party my 6 year old picked up illness-that-wasn't-Covid from)

Thanks Miles, loving your work by the way.