Food service employees essential during crisis

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Food service employees essential during crisis

Fri, 04/03/2020 - 02:16
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Missourians are flooding into their local grocery stores to stockpile cleaning supplies food and, of course, toilet paper. They pile into these stores because they are worried. They pile in because they want to protect their families, and because they want to feel safe. Throughout it all – working longer hours than ever before – there are grocery store workers. They scan every item, load supplies into bags or cars, fetch carts and baskets, stock shelves faster than ever before an then they wake up, and they do it all over again. We’ve learned a lot in the last few weeks about COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus that has infected at least 50,000 Americans as of this writing and killed more than 600. One of the things we’ve learned is that it’s highly contagious. Now imagine your job is to touch every single item in every single customer’s cart in a grocery store. Imagine if your job was to scan and bag their orders, standing mere feet from them, for six or eight or 10 hours…

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