March 2022
The Importance of essential workers during a global pandemic (restaurant workers, doctors, grocery store workers, farmers, and more.)
Although some workers were able to work from home, others could not do their jobs at home and this created, the importance of essential workers like Health care workers, grocery clerks, supermarket workers, delivery workers, farmworkers, and restaurant workers.
During a pandemic, these people leave their homes to help restore the world to normal, at a greater risk to themselves.
While health workers are at the hospitals to ensure good health care, restaurant staff will also be working around the clock to make food available to those who could not move far from home and they achieved that via delivery workers. During this time, grocery stores and supermarkets are also open to providing additional support.
Covid-19 for Example
How a pandemic, such as Covid-19, beamed a light on the importance of all work /service and the inherent equal values. While some essential workers were fighting to restore the world to equilibrium, others were supporting from behind the scenes.
Security
For instance, during the early stage of the covid-19 pandemic, the security personnel were in the background ensuring maximum security.
The Media
The media personnel helped us overcome fear and panic through education and entertainment. Most of us got to know more about the safety measure to take through the media and those who were missing the clubs and cinemas received entertainment through the media.
Telecommunication
Do you remember phoning a family or friend because you could not visit them physically? Yes, that was made possible by the telecommunication workers.
Cleanliness
The work of the cleaner also came to light as all of us became cleaners in one way or another.
In actual fact, every work is essential because we are all interconnected
