'White-Collar Quarantine’ Over Virus Spotlights Class Divide

By artappraiser on Sat, 03/28/2020 - 1:11am |

“A kind of pandemic caste system is rapidly developing: the rich holed up in vacation properties; the middle class marooned at home with restless children; the working class on the front lines of the economy” #COVID19 https://t.co/FcG8JbUr7Y
— Megan Tobias Neely (@mtobiasneely) March 28, 2020

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https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/business/economy/coronavirus-inequality.html?referringSource=articleShare

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'The reduction of all work to essential work is, by itself, illuminating. Because it turns out that the work that sustains us all is often the lowest paid. Healthcare workers. Childcare workers. School teachers. Waste removalists. Supermarket checkout operators ...
— Overland Journal (@OverlandJournal) March 30, 2020