…and here I'm talking specifically about the U.S.…is the glaring fact that workers we call "essential" are often also the ones we treat the worst and pay the least. I'm talking about the shelf-stockers and cashiers, the bus drivers and burger flippers, the crop harvesters and baggers and all the many others who work hard at often part-time (or as we like to say, flexibly scheduled) jobs, some of them even on this Christmas Day.
In the words of New York Governor Kathy Hochul, "Positive cases don't mean you're too sick [to work] and require hospitalization.…We want to make sure our critical workforce ... can get back."
God bless them, every one. They will need it.
(And pay them more.)
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