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Originally Posted by redpoint5
There’s nothing controversial about refusing to work, and then not getting paid. Lock that if you will.
(I still don’t know what the protest was, and I still don’t care because whatever it is, it’s not reasonable).
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I generally agree with 99% of your thoughts/ideas, and I'm taking this slightly out of context, but I'm choosing to latch onto this statement.
I'd argue it's not so simple. I can think of (extreme, exaggerated, hypothetical) circumstances where one might convince someone to "willingly" go to work every morning even if they had to play six chamber Russian roulette every time they arrive. With a big enough carrot or a big enough stick, you can get people to do anything.
Sometimes the stick and carrot are a virus which is perceived to be deadly (right or wrong) and the perceived need to receive a paycheck, be it to feed one's children or to not have one's home forclosed on. And sometimes, it's in everyone's best interest not to just walk away from the table, but instead to make a stink about things in hopes of having the rules changed.
I sincerely doubt many people are really expecting not to work at all until there have been 14 days of zero C-19 cases. I doubt that's the point of the protests, and I also doubt the outcome will be either extreme of 1) teachers going back to work as-is, or 2) teachers walking away from their jobs.