Remember on Labor Day

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.

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.

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.

It was the scientists in laboratories that developed the COVID vaccines that did the most saving.

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

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

This has downvotes.

Probably from people who thought that celebrities singing "imagine" accomplished something.
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.
Maybe some of them are accidental, it happens
just 1 %
- Roughly representative of CEOs and billionaires .
Maybe pendants who want labor day to be about the labor movement, ie unions, not laborers.

I paid extra for expedited groceries last night when I realized the alternative was patronizing business today

Amen

Special thanks to the frontline workers❤️❤️