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At least 30 grocery store workers have died from the coronavirus. Now, there's an urgent call to designate them as first responders
CBS News ^ | Apr 15, 2020 | CAITLIN O'KANE

Posted on 04/15/2020 5:24:20 PM PDT by DannyTN

... Granting grocery store workers a temporary designation of first responder or emergency personnel would "ensure these frontline workers have priority access to personal protection equipment like masks and gloves," the statement reads.

The groups say this is not just about employees – it's about protecting the customers they serve and our nation's food supply in general. First responders like health care workers are lacking the necessary PPE, so government officials have been working to ensure the equipment gets to those who need it the most and that supplies on conserved. ...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chinavirus; chinavirusmortality; coronavirus; covid19; grocerystores; grocerystoreworkers; madeupnumbers; ppe
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1 posted on 04/15/2020 5:24:20 PM PDT by DannyTN
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Grocery workers is an exceptionally large population. I’m not convinced the infection was a hazard of the job.


2 posted on 04/15/2020 5:25:54 PM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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"About 30,000 more supermarket employees are sick with the respiratory disease around the U.S., the union estimates."

Of course we don't know how many are calling in sick to avoid it. But it's got to be a hazard of the job.

3 posted on 04/15/2020 5:26:48 PM PDT by DannyTN
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So when they all call in sick. .......the stores close. ....


4 posted on 04/15/2020 5:32:01 PM PDT by redshawk ( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
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To: DannyTN

This is an idea worth looking into. No one interacts with more people - while having minimal protection - than does a grocery worker.


5 posted on 04/15/2020 5:32:13 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: DannyTN

the union estimates.”

The left is going to use this to destroy this country. Now they are demanding no restart until there are no more cases.


6 posted on 04/15/2020 5:32:20 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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More fearporn for the sheeple


7 posted on 04/15/2020 5:33:45 PM PDT by SanchoP (The sheeple cower as the HOAX continues.)
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To: DannyTN

Oh no! In two weeks all of our grocery stores are going to be overwhelmed!


8 posted on 04/15/2020 5:35:13 PM PDT by norcal joe
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"Oh no! In two weeks all of our grocery stores are going to be overwhelmed!"

No but workers need protection. Don't exaggerate everything.

9 posted on 04/15/2020 5:36:38 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: DannyTN

Hydroxychloroquine should be provided at first signs, we now have quite a bit.


10 posted on 04/15/2020 5:36:40 PM PDT by Balding_Eagle ( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
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To: jimfree

3 million
https://datausa.io/profile/naics/grocery-stores


11 posted on 04/15/2020 5:38:56 PM PDT by rolling_stone (tshf)
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They are doing fine! Only 30? There are about 2.5 million grocery workers in the US.

In the US we have 86 deaths per million from Covid.

They SHOULD have about 215 deaths by now!

12 posted on 04/15/2020 5:43:51 PM PDT by tinyowl
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Is America finally getting wise to the scandalous selling out of this country and its citizen’s very lives to China by its corporate and politcal class?

IMO the reason we were told not to use masks was because we did not keep a store of masks and othe PPE.


13 posted on 04/15/2020 5:47:17 PM PDT by amihow
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To: norcal joe

Sounds like a union grab to me.


14 posted on 04/15/2020 5:50:35 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist Communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: tinyowl

Lawyers are licking their chops.


15 posted on 04/15/2020 5:50:41 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: DannyTN

At least seventy two thousand motorcyclists were killed by gravel on the roads in 2018.

Just as made up, but not more made up.


16 posted on 04/15/2020 5:51:14 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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“This is an idea worth looking into. No one interacts with more people - while having minimal protection - than does a grocery worker.”

I agree. I think grocery store workers over 60 and others at increased risk should be able to stay home without fear of losing their jobs. The rest should have n95 masks and anyone coming into the grocery store should have a mask on.


17 posted on 04/15/2020 5:52:10 PM PDT by willk (A bias news media is not a free press.)
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This statistic is complete nonsense. The current rate of infection in the U.S. per 1M people is approximately 2K. There are 2.7M supermarket workers in America. So one would expect approximately 5.5K infections. Given that the risk could be higher because they are dealing with the public, it is not 6x higher. And factoring in that a significant percentage of the 2.7M work in states that have had little impact to the virus, the number becomes even more ridiculous.


18 posted on 04/15/2020 5:53:20 PM PDT by usafa92 (Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the United States of America)
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Grocery store clerks are exposed to the gamut of the human parade. This puts them and their families into worry not just about the virus for themselves, but more concern over bringing something home. It further distances them from loved ones moreso than the average person.


19 posted on 04/15/2020 5:53:40 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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"Grocery store clerks are exposed to the gamut of the human parade."

True. And where are the two places that someone is going to go when they are sick, unless they have someone to go for them? Grocery store and drug store.

20 posted on 04/15/2020 5:59:07 PM PDT by DannyTN
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