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notes Mar 30, 2023

"The lowest-earning workers got a big pay bump during the pandemic, but those wage gains probably won't stick, as policies that bolstered wallets, helped keep children out of poverty and hunger, and kept people in their homes have all come to an end." - https://www.businessinsider.com/low-wage-workers-got-big-raises-during-pandemic-now-ending-2023-3

Remember that abandoning working class people is a policy choice, and one we need to reject.

#COVID19 #COVID #LongCOVID #KeepThePHE #PublicHealth #SocialWork @socialwork
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Low-wage workers got big raises during the pandemic but now it's ending

The lowest-earners saw their wages skyrocket as employers had to compete for workers. But the policies that made that possible are fading.

Insider

notes Mar 20, 2023

"There is, and will be for the foreseeable future, sustained transmission across multiple countries alongside a significant burden of hospitalisations and deaths. Therefore, we may end up in the situation where there is technically an ongoing pandemic despite a declared end to the PHEIC. Such are the difficulties in defining the different stages of a global crisis." - @TheConversationUS

https://theconversation.com/three-years-on-the-covid-pandemic-may-never-end-but-the-public-health-impact-is-becoming-more-manageable-198013
#COVID19 #COVID #LongCOVID #KeepThePHE #Pandemic #SeeYouSafer

Three years on, the COVID pandemic may never end – but the public health impact is becoming more manageable

The WHO first described COVID as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Where are we at, three years later?

The Conversation

notes Mar 18, 2023

"Unwelcome a teacher as may be, the pandemic offers lessons we ignore at our peril, personal and social. Dare we hope we are up for the learning?"
https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/05/gabor-mate-coronavirus-essay
#COVID19 #COVID #LongCOVID #KeepThePHE #Pandemic #SeeYouSafer #PublicHealthEmergency #Disability #Solidarity #DisabilitySolidarity #PublicHealth #SocialWork

Gabor Maté: The unwelcome teacher

Covid-19 has exposed fault lines in our personal and political systems. Are we brave enough to try and fix them?

notes Mar 18, 2023

"In the U.S. as in the UK minority populations are succumbing in disproportionate numbers. And what of our regard for the elderly and our respect for those people who look after them—often, again, of immigrant and minority backgrounds? Internationally, elder care is manifesting itself as a scandal: neglected seniors, undervalued, stressed, and underpaid caregivers."

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/05/gabor-mate-coronavirus-essay
#COVID19 #COVID #LongCOVID #KeepThePHE #SeeYouSafer #ElderCare #Seniors

Gabor Maté: The unwelcome teacher

Covid-19 has exposed fault lines in our personal and political systems. Are we brave enough to try and fix them?

notes Mar 18, 2023

"On the individual level, some of us now have an enforced opportunity to consider how much of our self-concept is bound up in what we do out there in the world, with the activities we engage in, with the acceptance other people offer us. ‘If not all that, who am I?’ becomes an almost inescapable question. The answer may not be immediately comfortable."

https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2020/05/gabor-mate-coronavirus-essay
#COVID19 #COVID #LongCOVID #KeepThePHE #SeeYouSafer #PublicHealthEmergency
#Dharma #Dhamma

Gabor Maté: The unwelcome teacher

Covid-19 has exposed fault lines in our personal and political systems. Are we brave enough to try and fix them?