This article is one big strawman. It assumes that teachers' only concern is their own safety, and then attacks that as insufficient reason to threaten "safety s

This article is one big strawman. It assumes that teachers' only concern is their own safety, and then attacks that as insufficient reason to threaten "safety strikes" etc. In the process it totally ignores arguments based on the epidemiological effect of premature school openings. Granted, there has been much coverage of the teachers' (and other staff's) own risks, but only because that issue had previously been given insufficient attention. It was never because the risks to the surrounding community didn't matter. It also ignores a fundamental difference between the roles of nurses and teachers in this pandemic. Nurses have been caring for people who are already sick, and furthermore in an environment where majority of the people in a room understand about infection control. Teachers are trying to prevent spread before it occurs, in an environment where the vast majority of people in the room are kids who can't be expected to follow infection-control protocols. Hospitals also have different HVAC systems than schools do, and by now we should all know why that matters. Overall, this comes across as a very slanted and ultimately false comparison, more grounded in a sense of grievance over the author's own burdens (which she took on voluntarily) than in any epidemiological or other necessity. It's the "Blue Lives Matter" of school-reopening rhetoric.