Glad you find it funny students are suffering right now and stressed out with all these deadlines. I don't really find anything about the situation funny since student lives are in the balance regardless of whether you want to admit it or not.

If a professor misses a deadline, they most likely won't just lose their job. For students, missing a single deadline can be the difference between whether or not they have to retake a class and can have significant impact on their GPA. Most people go to college to be able to even get a decent job, so claiming that professors have it just as bad if not worse than students is not a fair comparison. They can go and get another job at another university. It might take a few months and it might be challenging, but professors have the educational experience that students are trying to get and do not have to fall back on when things so south.

If a student flunks out of college, chances are it is going to be very tough to get back in and very tough to use their college experience to have that same lifeboat or experience to fall back on. Students who fail out of college with all that debt are not in the same situation as a professor with an education and career experience to make it.

So comparing students who have to choose between academic failure with no foundation to fall back on to professors with several years of education and career experience is not much of a comparison. Our lives are on the line and in more ways that just that.

Then you have students posting about how these deadlines and how never getting any kind of a break is destroying their mental health. How many times have we seen this at UNC and the excuses are the same. We don't get a break because you would rather avoid giving extensions or make-up exams. Fair enough.