The coronavirus continues to spread and more and more countries are taking stricter and stricter steps to contain it as best as possible. With the health crisis in swing, people are debating what might be helping the Covid-19 virus spread. Some of them believe that it’s less a matter of personal hygiene and more a question of wealth.
One Twitter user who spent 9 years managing a pizza place shared their opinion about how restaurant workers in the United States, as well as other food and service industry professionals, might add to the corona-crisis.
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According to them, this may happen because a lot of food and service industry workers aren’t able to afford health insurance, wouldn’t be able to take sick days if they get ill, and may end up spreading the virus to others at their workplace. In other words, the Twitter user believes that poverty is the coronavirus’s greatest ally.
One Twitter user shared their opinion about how poverty might help the virus spread across the US
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The person explained that a lot of the people working in the food and service industries do not have health insurance
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Bosses expect their employees to work even after they had an accident
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Some believe that fine dining might put even more pressure on their employees
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Quite a few people working in the US service industry have it tough; some of them get penalized for resting
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The internet user’s tweets got more than 10.6k likes and were reshared a whopping 5.8k times. Their opinions about income inequality were supported by a lot of readers, some of whom thought that the situation was “terrifying.”
The virus has spread further in the US over the weekend. At the time of writing, there are more than 565 confirmed cases of people infected with the coronavirus in the country. The death toll from the illness now stands at 22. 19 of these occurred in Washington state which currently has the highest number of ill individuals.
At least 8 states have declared states of emergency, including Washington, California, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Maryland, Utah, and Oregon. And even some Congressmen, including Ted Cruz and Paul Gosar, are self-quarantining after having interacted with an individual who later tested positive for the virus.
Meanwhile, the world economy continues to take hard hits as global trade and security suffer. The S&P 500 futures slid down by 5% on Sunday evening; Dow futures fell 4.9%; Nasdaq Composite futures were down 4.8%. In other words, we’re witnessing some economic shocks that we haven’t witnessed since the last recession.
Some people shared their own experiences working in the industry
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Poverty is a complex problem
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Some bosses can fire their employees at any moment
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A lot of adults end up working jobs that some see as being meant for high school kids
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Universal paid sick leave might help alleviate the spread of the virus
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A lot of people are hard-pressed to continue working no matter what
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The coronavirus continues to spread in the US
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People shared their experiences working in the food and service industries
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