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For Abby and all my teacher friends,

As much as I can’t wait to go back, I would love answers to these questions!

Betsy DeVos, we have a few questions for you:

• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19 are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?

• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?

• Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?

• What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?

• Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?

• Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now have to quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?

• What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?

• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being stressed out?

• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?

• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?

30% of the teachers in the US are over 50. About 16% of the total deaths in the US are people between the ages of 45-65.

We are choosing to put our teachers in danger.

We're not paying them more.

We aren't spending anywhere near the right amount to protect them. And in turn, we are putting ourselves and our kids in danger.

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okay so I got bored last night and did this.

What the FRIENDS have been doing during quarantine:

Ross: has been trying to keep himself busy with puzzles/shows/documentaries/books and one day he decided to make an educational video about paleontology (for kids??) and now has a very small but loyal following and posts weekly videos

Joey: has eaten everything in the fridge and is watching a lot of tv (possibly also makes videos?? maybe doing dramatic kids books readings??)

Chandler: watching lots of tv and secretly runs multiple social media accounts that are both funny and informative (like wear a mask and blm stuff)

Monica: has been making at home cooking videos and cleaning excessively (she also panic-bought a LOT of toilet paper so Joey texts Monica when he needs some and she leaves it at his door) also she’s on TikTok

Phoebe: has been making videos for kids (think a virtual music session like she did at the library) and she has also been making masks and selling them on Etsy. also she has been protesting (with Mike (and maybe Joey?) of course)

Rachel: lots of online shopping and zoom meetings with work

OKAY NOW LISTEN TO ME: the girls team up and use Phoebe’s van (aka the relaxi taxi/cab) to deliver food (which Monica makes) and clothes (from Rachel’s job/closet) and PPE (which either Rachel gets from work as samples or Phoebe makes) to homeless ppl (Phoebe knows where all the homeless peeps are so she’s in charge of location) and also essential workers