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And yet mild or asymptomatic politicians and hollywood stars have been tested. No wonder the French Revolution happened.

Anyone who thinks teacher aren't working their asses off during virtual teaching is oblivious. The amount of effort required to adapt to and implement new practices alone was incredibly difficult. Most teachers where I live in NJ, with high academic standards, graded more student work than they did in traditional because evaluating student understanding through simple formative assessments and interactions was not working.
There are lots of professionals working remotely from home in the business world.
Plenty of other comments cover the actual difference in protection Costco workers have that aren't even being given to teachers, so I won't bother with that.

Or Abby Somebody.

Early 90s the Naval Hospital that I was stationed at had a big witch-hunt. Most of the gay sailors knew each other and socialized with each other. I wasn't "family" but was close enough with a friend that he called me a cousin. One member of the family who really didn't belong in the military got pissed at the actions of another at a party, and ratted him out. Of course anyone at the party was gay or bi, so this one shithead brought down several other sailors on his way out. It sucked, because some of them were really good at their jobs, and they wanted to stay in. Two members of my department got dishonorable discharges because they were at the party, a 3rd somehow slipped through the net, but after that experience was getting out when her 4th year was done.

Originally, you wrote "everyone else has to work" which implies that teachers are trying to avoid working. Maybe your teachers did a poor job in teaching you how to communicate clearly, which really stinks. Teachers have frequently been considered glorified babysitters, and it is the babysitting aspect of it that Trump and Pence are touting as "essential." If childcare centers could just watch kids without teaching them, we would not be using the essential worker tag on teachers. Our economy treats so many workers so poorly that the majority of us cannot afford to have a stay at home parent and childcare is a necessity. Wages for just 1 person cannot pay the Bill's, and many of our "essential" workers are paid very poorly, so both parents must work. Ever since child labor laws moved kids out of the fields and factories schools have taken on the dual roles of watching our children and educating them.
The US is still a great country, and has been for a long time, but we still have improvements to make.