In this lesson, we are looking at the workers being talked about all the time, and the ones that are never mentioned at all. We know that the teachers are expected to look after hordes of children that are not at risk but probably infected. There are others that look after any number of people and are expected to put themselves out into the pandemic. But no one really mentions them. They are sort of subsumed by other groups, but will certainly be forgotten once the pandemic is over.
The group of people everybody is talking about are the workers in the care homes. Right now, everybody is so thankful and appreciative. But for one, these people again are not paid enough under normal circumstances much less so right now. And once the pandemic is over, mark my words, there will be people looking to sue the care homes for negligence and greedy law firms looking for class actions to take. Grubby lawyers are using lockdown to read up on precedents.
Easily forgotten because they are sort of chucked in with the care homes are the care nurses that help people stay at home. To do that, they go out there every day to visit their patients who are as a general rule part of an at risk group. And these nurses are again are paid too little when things are going well, but now it's plain ridiculous.
Then come the other people who are looking after groups of people that need looking after for various reasons. That's the workers of any denomination that keep prisons running. Besides prisons, there are other institutions that need employees, orphanages, youth correction centers, mental hospitals, and so on. They are graciously forgotten, as they are graciously forgotten when talks come round to their pay.
Onto this list have to be added the people who look after animals that are not on a farm; that's animal shelters, pet shops, and zoos to make three large groups while dumping some professions in with these. While people working with people are very clear about the risks they are running, with animals we have no clue if and what the risks are. Does the virus jump from human to animal and back? Does the virus mutate if it does this jumping around? And is the risk higher of doing any of this with exotic animals than with our local pets like cats and dogs?
And finally, and that is intentional, there are homeless people and the workers from charities and government agencies (very few of the latter as governments hate spending money on homeless people) that look after them on the streets and in shelters. Why do I take them last intentionally? Obviously for one, they are always the last to be looked after (with maybe the exception of Stockholm where a working system is in place to keep people off the streets). And secondly looking at social media, finding money for cat, dog, and donkey shelters is much more important than finding money for human beings. Some people need to have their minds looked at about what they think are priorities? Dear Mrs. Catdogdonkeylover, how great are your chances of becoming a human homeless person as opposed to becoming a stray cat, dog, or donkey?
Further reading
Covid-19 Lesson 7
Covid-19 Lesson 6
Covid-19 Lesson 5
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