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Sherman A1

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32. Does not change a thing

Reply to llmart (Reply #27)

Sat Nov 7, 2020, 10:11 AM

Nov 2020

Essential workers certainly chose their jobs, they did not however choose a situation where their lives would be at risk for simply going to work to deliver packages, stock grocery store shelves, get the mail to your home, pick up garbage, push a dust mop in a medical facility or all the other countless jobs that keep our society functional. Those mentioned along with medical, EMS, hospital workers, doctors, nurses never signed up for a job that could very well be their own death warrant.

Their work and their politics are two entirely different things, I'm sorry that you seem to be unable to see that

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