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"Surely the greatest living philosopher of sandwich ontology" "Really really good with words" & other fictions Accidental #ADHD Advocate, Queer Redneck, He/Him

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    Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

    I am not an expert in immunology - I follow doctors for that. But I did spend 9 years as a manager at a pizza place that paid better than average wages for food service. And I am terrified of #COVID19. Not because the virus is going to kill people, but because poverty might. /pic.twitter.com/SNke4cD3dW

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      2. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        Y'all, all laws aside, nobody in the restaurant industry goes to the doctor when they're sick. There are health code rules about what symptoms exclude you from work - you have to go to the doctor and get cleared, or be symptom free for 24 hours. And they are *never* followed. /pic.twitter.com/uj5hPaDIP8

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      3. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        The people making your food do not have health insurance. Restaurants almost never offer it. They do not have paid time off. Benefits like that aren't imaginable. They do not have enough people in the schedule to cover an absence. "Lean Staffing." It's more profitable. /pic.twitter.com/Xee1ntLdVH

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      4. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        The average age of a fast-food worker is 29. The average income is $8.69 an hour. I was taxed around 21% on paychecks. The average doctor's visit w/o insurance, costs $300-600. 43.7 hours. At minimum, more than a week's take-home pay. Going to the doctor is an *insane luxury*.pic.twitter.com/q3zu3NIvcI

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      5. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        I have watched people PRIDE themselves on working through illness and injury. I had a driver break his foot by stepping on a tennis ball in someone's driveway, and then work another four days on a broken foot on ibuprofen and spite. Flu-like symptoms? Fuck out of here.pic.twitter.com/yo97CEg4wa

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      6. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        MOST fast food workers are already on some kind of public assistance. Many of those are "means tested" and require them to keep jobs. http://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/pdf/2013/fast_food_poverty_wages.pdf …

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      7. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        This means that 1) Fast food workers literally cannot afford to go to the doctor. They will do what we've always done - dose up heavily on DayQuil, puke in the bathroom, explain things away as being "hung over" or "tired," and their manager will pretend nothing is wrong.pic.twitter.com/ph1X37943p

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      8. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        2) Fast food workers literally cannot afford to miss work. The median age is 29 for christ's sake. These are people with bills, families, responsibilities. Median 2-bedroom rent is ~1,194/mo. That $8.69 wage is ~1,190/mo take-home pay. Even w/ roommates, that's HALF YOUR MONEY.pic.twitter.com/DNOyAHr1zJ

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      9. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        You can't afford to take off work to go to the doctor, much less take off work when the doctor says you need to be quarantined for three weeks. You need every hour. Otherwise you lose your job, then your housing, and anything else that keeps the wolf away from the door.pic.twitter.com/PSxQcsuHnZ

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      10. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted Moon-faced Assassin of Joy

        When this happened to me, the doctor said I needed to be off my feet and resting for two weeks, light duty for another two. I took 4 days. It was one of two times in nine years I missed work, both of them involving a trip to the emergency room.https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1092296791595216897 …

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        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy @NomeDaBarbarian
        Replying to @FateBoundKnight
        When I burned my leg (pitcher of boiling water exploded, 2nd degree on everything from knee to groin), my boss's first words to me were "When can you be back?" I believe, after a few back and forward words, I said "Bill, I can't wear /pants/. I'll let you know when I can."
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      11. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        People who work food service are less likely to have reliable transportation - so they ride mass transit, exposing themselves to more people. They live together in tight spaces, ensuring it spreads between folks. They have poor diets, poor sleep, and weakened immune systems.pic.twitter.com/Kk8i5mU1BK

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      12. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        ~14mil people work in food service in the US. They're in every community. Everyone has to eat. They live and work in conditions that make the spread of disease inevitable. They won't go to the doctor until it's a crisis, long after they've passed things on to others.pic.twitter.com/PCDZKDuq0A

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      13. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        The Flu is bad enough, going around a kitchen. #COVID19 is substantially more easily transmitted than the flu. And we've created a situation where food service workers' SURVIVAL depends on doing THE EXACT OPPOSITE of anything that could fight a pandemic.pic.twitter.com/SgjpUpytxj

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      14. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        And these are the people making your food.pic.twitter.com/0s4SK0P1CK

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      15. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        The average food service worker is a millenial. 62% of us live paycheck to paycheck. And it doesn't have to be like this. In our parents' lifetimes, it wasn't. God Bless the Conservative movement and their deregulation, pro-business legislation, and "choice."pic.twitter.com/AWfQAEIlZX

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      16. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        Poverty is a public health crisis, y'all. Wage Slavery kills. And if you can't be bothered to care about that out of your basic human dignity, maybe the fact that the servile class you've been supported by can't afford to not make you sick will fucking help. Eat the rich. /endpic.twitter.com/0gUMqZaVo4

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      17. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted Wesley’s Sweater

        I couldn't speak to this from my own experience, but I'm utterly unsurprised to hear it.https://twitter.com/sweater_wesley/status/1232931084616134656 …

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        Wesley’s Sweater @sweater_wesley
        Replying to @NomeDaBarbarian
        And fine dining restaurants are worse - food is handled 10x more and those cooks will work through anything. I worked with colds, bronchitis, and once maybe tonsillitis, who knows, I couldn’t go to the doctor.
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      18. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted  🖖 Christian Janeway  🖖

        We're on Euro posting hours, so let me explain this: Almost nobody in the US service industry: -Gets any maternity leave -Gets any sick leave -Gets any health insurance -Is allowed to sit down at work.https://twitter.com/XianJaneway/status/1232935094639353858 …

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         🖖 Christian Janeway  🖖 @XianJaneway
        Replying to @NomeDaBarbarian
        I did exactly that as a retail worker---I was pregnant & had hyperemesis so badly that I lost 15lbs in the 1st trimester. I puked in the bathroom & got written up for sitting down---in a jewelry store.
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      19. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        It should go without saying too, but better to make it explicit: Service jobs are most of what's available to poor folks. Because of decades of specific descrimination and structural barriers, those poor folks are more likely to be black, queer, female, trans, and/or disabled.pic.twitter.com/I28fMuLW9R

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      20. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        I worked in food service as a relatively safe and stable, relatively able-bodied, straight-passing white man with some solid support systems in place. Anything I went through? Others had *way the fuck worse.* And MY EXPERIENCE was that of an abusive soul-destroying horror show.pic.twitter.com/WluyxrrYDy

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      21. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        A lot of already vulnerable people are going to be hurt. And I'm aching.

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      22. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 26 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted

        I worked way harder in a kitchen than I ever do in my paid-almost-twice-as-much-and-do-a-thing-that-fulfills-me-with great benefits office job. Hard agree. There's no such thing as unskilled labor. https://twitter.com/vorodecky/status/1232936346362302464 …

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      23. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 27 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted Ham 'n green egger

        Yeah, I brushed on that, but again for the audience: These workers can be fired, at any time, for any reason. And there's always a stack of applications they could replace you with. They make it clear from day 1. "We're a family! And you're expendable."https://twitter.com/Chowderskin/status/1232937317498679296 …

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy added,

        Ham 'n green egger @Chowderskin
        Replying to @NomeDaBarbarian
        Don't forget at-will employment
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      24. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 27 Feb 2020

        To be clear: The virus will mostly kill vulnerable folks. It's a more transmissibile bad flu, that we can't vaccinate against yet. If this kills any poor Americans, it will be income inequality and our piss-poor health system that pulled the trigger. Cheers.pic.twitter.com/S4e5tn9QTg

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      25. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 27 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted Moon-faced Assassin of Joy

        I'm exhausted talk to me about Star Trek or something.https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1230708687234224130 …

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy added,

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy @NomeDaBarbarian
        So Star Trek: First Contact, right? Part of the story is the crew influencing Zephram Cochrane to be the hero they knew him to be from the history books. Shame we don't know how that would have gone had the Borg and Enterprise never intervened. Except... maybe... we do. / pic.twitter.com/z5heJY4n6Q
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      26. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 27 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted T.C. Aurelius

        In my nine years at my pizza place, we hired two high schoolers. Two. In a decade.https://twitter.com/q_aurelius/status/1233031361814048769 …

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        T.C. Aurelius @q_aurelius
        Replying to @NomeDaBarbarian
        I always hear about how "these are jobs for kids who are in school," and I have to ask when the last time they were in a Wendy's and were served by a minor. These companies only hire kids if they have no other choice. They want someone who has to be there who needs the money.
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      27. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 27 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted Shadow Trick

        If I've made anyone nervous about the virus itself, I want to mitigate that - it really isn't the part that scares me. There's an offer, here, from someone who would know, to answer questions or discuss concerns.https://twitter.com/Just_Eleanora/status/1233030130345246720 …

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        Shadow Trick @Just_Eleanora
        Replying to @NomeDaBarbarian
        I'm an epidemiologist. For 5 years I was specifically a flu/respiratory virus epidemiologist. I was asked on multiple occasions what I thought was the most effective thing we could do to improve the severity of flu season. That's an easy answer. Universal paid sick leave.
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      28. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 27 Feb 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted

        If anyone thinks for a second this isn't the intentional creation of a management class trying to wring every cent of value out of disposable workers, then I've got a bridge to sell you. https://twitter.com/4mogglesinacoat/status/1233048819023196167 …

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      29. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 1 Mar 2020

        So, over the weekend I posted this thread, many of y'all have responded saying how your industry was just as bad. A good chunk of those folks were people who work nursing homes. We now have six cases and two deaths in one nursing home in Seattle.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/01/world/coronavirus-news.html …

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      30. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 1 Mar 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted Moon-faced Assassin of Joy

        I've quoted those responses here:https://twitter.com/NomeDaBarbarian/status/1234299158124613633 …

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        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy @NomeDaBarbarian
        Hey y'all - remember how all those responses to my thread included people saying "Yeah, and nursing home workers have it just the same!" All four of the new cases here, and two previous ones, are linked to one nursing home. https://twitter.com/ByMikeBaker/status/1234294709146701824 …
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      31. Moon-faced Assassin of Joy‏ @NomeDaBarbarian 2 Mar 2020

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy Retweeted Nicholas Kristof

        Fuck that. I cant afford what that would cost with the insurance I finally do have.https://mobile.twitter.com/NickKristof/status/1234140218023989253 …

        Moon-faced Assassin of Joy added,

        Nicholas KristofVerified account @NickKristof
        A Florida man tested negative for coronavirus but was billed $3,270--so many will avoid testing. We need universal health coverage: It protects all of us. Same for paid sick leave: You want a sick person to stagger to work to prepare your food? My column http://nyti.ms/2Vx8ZwZ  pic.twitter.com/kPkauLNCz1
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