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Let us remember that the pandemic never ended and that these same blue collar workers are at greater risk of permanent disability and death from repeat infections than the billionairs whom benefit from their labour. We should demand clean air, paid sick leave and free PPE and protections for all workers. No one should be required to risk their long term health to make a living. If you dont know what the long term risks are, have a research. Its early days being only 5-6 years into the pandemic but the results so far are devastating. Refering to Covid in the past tense is violence to disabled and vulnerable people - it never ended, y’all just took your masks off and started play acting 2019.
During the pandemic i abandoned my job at a hospital. I was a housekeeper and A few weeks into the pandemic getting bad and I show up to hear “we don’t have enough masks for EVERYONE, so you don’t get one” “Then im going home!”
Two weeks later my shift supervisor died of COVID and the hospital insisted she didn’t catch it there.
They made no effort to protect the housekeeping staff and tried to downplay the pandemic. Never went back and im glad
I was a janitor during all of COVID at a hospital. I cleaned the ER, Med Surg, ICU, and the maternity ward. Our pay was cut by 25% for two months to help alleviate the hospital’s expenses. They excused it by saying even the CEO was taking a 25% cut. I literally could not afford food during those two months bc I was let go from my other job bc of the pandemic. I’m sure the CEO barely noticed having less
It wasn’t just housekeepers. They didn’t have PPEs for surgeons, doctors and nurses that were treating covid infected.
At the time, I created a print farm and was printing PPEs for hospitals all around the Seattle area. I like to believe my tiny effort saved someone’s life.
It really showed how unprepared hospitals are. My boss was saying “it’s not our job to make sure there are a million n95 masks in stock for everyone” like yeah it kinda is. We were trained to always use ppe and told how important it is, suddenly an actual crisis hits and they’re acting like masks aren’t necessary
It is their job to make sure you are safe. A global pandemic when millions of people are dying. Ya. I would also quit as well. Your decision might have saved your own life and maybe even more than just yourself. Good job!
You absolutely made the right decision. The clowns making those types of decisions kept themselves safe by working from home and pulling in absurd paychecks with zero regard for those in the hospital
It was the scientists in laboratories that developed the COVID vaccines that did the most saving.
This is why when the UK was banging pans in the street to celebrate the key workers I declined to join in as I knew they would be forgotten as soon as the pandemic was over.
This has downvotes.
Everything will. Plus, COVID isn’t over. So, I hate memes that imply that COVID is gone and over with.
No, but it’s not what it was before it mutated down. Body bagging people weekly due to COVID is no longer an expectation in hospitals. Losing perfectly healthy, clean living, athletic people to COVID is no longer a thing either.
However, we still don’t know the full impact of long COVID, or long COVID in the latest strains. Given the neurological aspects thus far, the brain fog, the memory issues, I would not be surprised if we find it contributes to dementia or some such. We will have to wait for the data, granted, I’m sure most of those studies have been destroyed by the Trump admin.
People may not be dying, but, I’m in contact with COVID+ from all walks of life.
Probably from people who thought that celebrities singing “imagine” accomplished something.
just 1 %
Roughly representative of CEOs and billionaires .
Maybe some of them are accidental, it happens
Maybe pendants who want labor day to be about the labor movement, ie unions, not laborers.
I didn’t vote but it does seem a bit dramatic to talk about “saving us”. Tbh same for labeling eveyone as “heroes”. I feel like the heart is in the right place a lot to of the time to value otherwise devalued jobs but it goes hard in the other direction
Heroes may be dramatic, yes, but consider the context. Hero is a role in which there is more expectation of death. Another way to see it is corporate’s way of easing the perception around deaths of people working with people during COVID.
The CEOs & billionaires profited the most tho.
(From the work of others ofc.)Like, that’s what happened every western crisis so far, but in times of high inflation & market volatility they profit even more. The financial markets with it’s highly liquid capital are designed just to accommodate one goal.
Amen
Special thanks to the frontline workers❤️❤️
I paid extra for expedited groceries last night when I realized the alternative was patronizing business today
