<story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eaandkw</author><text>I have pretty much given up on everybody at this point.  I have already pulled my kid from school and will not send them back.  I am in a single income family and I am now working from home.&lt;p&gt;All actions and purchases at this point are to help us to become more independant from the system.  Society and government at large has shown itself to be unreliable and undependable.  I am also making longer term plans to move out of my current state.&lt;p&gt;So good luck everyone with the education system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>I think one of the things that has been so disheartening to me about the pandemic is that it has shown how we just can&amp;#x27;t really &lt;i&gt;do&lt;/i&gt; anything anymore in the US.&lt;p&gt;I mean, just look at PPE. I understand being a little flat footed when the pandemic first started, but it&amp;#x27;s been nearly 6 months now. I would have expected mass mobilization to pump out N95 masks, gloves, gowns, face shields, etc. by the millions. I mean, look how many heavy military vehicles the US managed to build during WWII, and then consider we can&amp;#x27;t even build &lt;i&gt;masks&lt;/i&gt; of sufficient quantity.&lt;p&gt;And this just follows an ever growing set of problems that the US has just oddly accepted without the political will to do anything, things like our totally f&amp;#x27;d healthcare system, mass shootings, climate change, etc.&lt;p&gt;I disagree, though, with the sibling comment that says &amp;quot;Don&amp;#x27;t give up! Don&amp;#x27;t withdraw!&amp;quot; It&amp;#x27;s not like there aren&amp;#x27;t other functioning societies in the world that are way less broken than the US. Staying behind in some mythical &amp;quot;fight&amp;quot; is just misplaced patriotism IMO. There are other countries that live the &lt;i&gt;ideals&lt;/i&gt; that I used to associate with America (real freedom, upward mobility, democracy, rule of law, etc.) much better than the US does these days.</text></comment>
<story><title>Teachers are ready to quit rather than put their lives at risk</title><url>https://www.buzzfeednews.com/carolineodonovan/coronavirus-schools-teachers-fear-for-their-lives</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>eaandkw</author><text>I have pretty much given up on everybody at this point.  I have already pulled my kid from school and will not send them back.  I am in a single income family and I am now working from home.&lt;p&gt;All actions and purchases at this point are to help us to become more independant from the system.  Society and government at large has shown itself to be unreliable and undependable.  I am also making longer term plans to move out of my current state.&lt;p&gt;So good luck everyone with the education system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cool_dude85</author><text>Not sure where you&amp;#x27;re from, but in many places, &amp;quot;society and government&amp;quot; has not failed people the same way it has in the US. Even within the US there are some places where local and state government have performed much better than places like Florida or NYC.&lt;p&gt;That is to say, the problem is not, conceptually, &amp;quot;society and government&amp;quot;, but instead, the American society and American government we have today. Don&amp;#x27;t give up! Don&amp;#x27;t withdraw! Organize and fight to improve the systems that are exacerbating this crisis.</text></comment>