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Andrea Junker 
On this May Day, let us remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
⠠⠵ avuko@Strandjunker and often deadly from (repeated) exposure.
Feyter@Strandjunker and CEOs even made Pandemic worse by refusing to give away vaccine license to other... Even after they made the benefit of their life out of it.
Also remember this!
Pepper Pirate@Strandjunker Let us not forget about the teachers who were mandated back to class before the vaccine was available while the corporate sponsored media (PBS and both left and right wing outlets) were saying that kids were not transmitting it. We are not fools!
Nicole ParsonsReminder that it was billionaires who funded disinformation so those janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, and grocery store workers died in droves.
https://jacobin.com/2021/12/right-wing-think-tanks-herd-immunity-death
https://sanford.duke.edu/news/how-koch-network-spreading-covid-misinformation/
https://www.democracynow.org/2021/12/23/koch_hijacked_war_on_covid
The same billionaires paid shills like Dr. Phil and Lt Gov Dan Patrick to encourage people to die to preserve the economy for billionaires.
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/04/21/texas-dan-patrick-economy-coronavirus/
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/03/dan-patrick-coronavirus-grandparents
MorguninRemarkable.
It apparently took us only five years to forget this to the point of needing to be reminded of it on May Day.
A stark testament to the poignancy of the people in these jobs being criticized at the time, for pointing out that “ovations don’t pay bills.”
I still agree with them.
Gestures of appreciation are nothing more than empty window dressing, if the ones being “appreciated” aren’t earning a living wage.
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Winter TrabexThe same people they said were heroes are now the folks who getting sent to foreign prisons.
KathkohAnd experts - medics, virologists, public health, paramedics, ventilation engineers, research scientists across a whole swathe of different expertise.
And people with kindness in their souls from all walks of life.
And grave diggers. Must have been very grim for them, but imagine what would have happened without them...
Bill Zaumen@Whoopkath @Strandjunker Don't forget decades of work on gene sequencing, search algorithms, messanger RNA, and how to get mRNA to the right place. The result (mentioned in a Technology Review article) was that a Chinese researcher sequenced COVID-19, sent the sequence to a colleague in Austrailia, who in turn sent it to Moderna and Pfizer. Once they had the genome, Moderna designed a vaccine in about 48 hours - in January 2000, before Trump said a word about it. It was an international effort.
I hadn't. Had to use fairly generic categories for brevity.
We need science and we need everyone that implements the findings of science be they cleaners, ventilation engineers, mask production workers or vaccine developers & producers.
We need our common humanity and cooperative intelligence.
Rosy@Strandjunker what do you mean by "invisible" labor?
foundseed@lalah @Strandjunker labor rendered invisible is often domestic, janitorial, maintenance, or co-ordinative in nature. Work that doesn't get seen, literally, but also is kept from the public eye and intentionally devalued.
@foundseed @Strandjunker in what way are those jobs unseen? go to any large building and you'll see janitors, etc working
@lalah @Strandjunker
Here is the definition of the phrase:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_labor
Here's an article that goes more into depth on what it looks like:
https://mashable.com/article/what-is-invisible-labor
A lot of extra labor was created in order to keep people safe. Deeper cleaning procedures, new lab projects, more thought needed for grocery co-ordination. That all had to be done by someone, and it often was foisted off into those already doing labor rendered invisible.
@foundseed @Strandjunker invisible to clueless wealthy urbanites maybe, not to the common person
@lalah @Strandjunker honey, how do I get across to you that the phrase isn't literal? Someone sees the kitchen is clean, someone eats food that is prepared, someone throws paper into an emptied basket, someone opens a door that works. do they see who did that labor? think about the person do did that task? No. They go about their day, taken care of by laborers rendered invisible to them. Rendered invisible by being devalued, underpaid, and disenfranchised. Prison labor comes to mind.
@foundseed workers see other workers, I don't know anyone who is unaware that kitchens do not magically clean themselves.
Pablo Rrrrrrr@Strandjunker Our heroes, they called them, and then they kept screwing them as usual. A raise? Heroes don’t need raises, or PPE equipment, or extra help, or anything else. Now go do your job and enjoy your hero donut.
tlariv@Strandjunker
The "essential workers", even though we knew that they were all considered disposable. It was only their jobs that were "essential".
The "essential workers", even though we knew that they were all considered disposable. It was only their jobs that were "essential".
@tlariv @Strandjunker After I was fully vaccinated, I still used a mask when shopping, if only because it might make the person working at the checkout counter more comfortable - they see a lot of people over the course of a day.
DianeIn California during the worst part of the pandemic, "line cook" was the most dangerous job.
Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇪🇺
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@Strandjunker Absolitely. They also were more exposed to the risk of getting COVID because of their dedication to all of us.
François @Jura
Pēteris Krišjānis@Strandjunker ohh I remember well. Respect 🫡
Michel Patrice
Hiisikoloart@Strandjunker
Let's all remember the pandemic isn't over and people are still very much dying, becoming disabled, and spreading covid (around 40% are asymptomatic and still just as contageous). It is hurting everyone, including kids.
Those who worked to keep everyone safe, and were in the front lines during the lockdowns, are still not kept safe by misinformation campaigns that use past tense on the ongoing pandemic.
Mask up with N95/FFP2 or better, and stay safe.
Matteo Bertini 🇮🇹 🌈@Strandjunker they neither helped significantly the economy, Bozos and Musk are even richer and I am not aware of any long term low interest lending to any State in need.
In the Renaissance used to be a social contract: rich people were allowed to accumulate wealth only if they were "willing" to lend the money to the State in case of emergency. We forgot the second part of that social contract!