And yet being repeatedly overlooked is the fact that the majority of cleaners are women , and often women of colour , who are being expected to risk their health and their families health to clean other people's houses . Nor am I seeing anyone mention that these women might often
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Replying to @suzanalou @Tiggles15 and
have children of their own who's homeschooling and mess they are also having to deal with . Also during your conversation with your cleaning company did you ask them were they giving staff the option to stay at home or are they being told to work or risk their jobs ?
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
And ? Did they explain what they are doing for employees who are having to shield ? For employees that don't have childcare ? For employees that are scared to return or don't feel the measures they are taking are adequate ? Did they explain how the employees are going to social
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Replying to @suzanalou @Lenoxus and
They don’t have any employees that are shielding or homeschooling children. They don’t have any employees that don’t want to return. And they are charging extra to cover all the PPE.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @suzanalou and
It’s literally 4 people - 2 teams of 2. Team 1 is the owners who are sisters that live together. You’re reading too much into this.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @suzanalou and
All women, all white, all from the same socioeconomic background as me. And they just clean. I think that dude whoever he is is thinking of maids. These ladies literally just clean stuff you can’t clean by yourself.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
I spent years cleaning for a living and that is far from the norm . And whilst your very small cleaning company may be taking very specific measures that is not the same for all companies/cleaners and the initial point about expecting cleaners to risk their lives to scrub
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Replying to @suzanalou @Lenoxus and
I think it’s relevant in the sense that EVERYTHING in the debate was just assumed. It was assumed I’m an evil rich Jewish character who exploits poor WOC when actually my example shows it’s complicated and we should trust people to figure things out rather than caricature them.
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Replying to @saralikeclara @Tiggles15 and
No, we should not Even if I believe you that you have the most progressive cleaning company in the world, outliers are not a reason for the government to lift a universal restriction
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It may be possible for one particular restaurant to be extremely responsible and thoughtful in protecting their customers and staff, it's still an awful idea to reopen restaurants
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