www.zerohedge.com As we’ve been warning over the last several weeks, the beginning innings of social unrest in the Western world could be developing. Millions of people have just lost their jobs, the economy has crashed, and suicides and domestic violence are increasing, this is all the characteristics of a recession, if not a depression in the second quarter.
Last week, Amazon and Instacart workers kicked off strikes to demand safety equipment and better pay amid the virus pandemic that has left some of their colleagues in the hospital, infected with the deadly virus. Amazon employees walked out of a Staten Island warehouse on Monday, the second week in a row. We noted last week how strikes and protests would likely spread “to other businesses.”
And we were right, now workers at some Massachusetts grocery stores will protest on Tuesday morning to demand medical equipment and the need for hazard pay as their probabilities of contracting the virus are high.
Organizers told WCVB Boston that employees from Whole Foods, Stop & Shop, Trader Joes & Shaw are expected to join the rally, scheduled for 1100ET outside the Whole Foods at 348 Harrison Ave in Boston.
The organizers are requesting that employers provide workers with “hazard pay of time and half for the duration of the COVID-19 crisis.” During the protest, workers are expected to abide by Massachusetts’ social distancing rules and stand 6 feet apart from others.
The protest comes as major supermarket chains across the country are starting to report an increase in virus cases and deaths.
On Monday, a Trader Joe’s worker in Scarsdale, New York, an employee at a Giant store in Largo, Maryland., and two Walmart employees from the same Chicago-area store have just died in recent days after their exposure to COVID-19, the companies said on Monday.
Some experts are saying the rise of virus cases and deaths at supermarkets across the country is because companies did not adequately prepare workers for a public health crisis:
“One of the biggest mistakes supermarkets made early on was not allowing employees to wear masks and gloves the way they wanted to,” Supermarket analyst Phil Lempert said. “They’re starting to become proactive now, but it’s still going to be much tougher to hire hundreds of thousands of new workers. We’re going to start seeing people say, ‘I’ll just stay unemployed instead of risking my life for a temporary job.'”
Strikes and protests aren’t limited to an Amazon warehouse or Instant cart workers and or supermarkets, but now spreading to the fast-food industry.
If you are under 55 with normal health, you have an extremely low risk of getting sick enough to die. Purchase some gloves and a mask for every day, stay away from others and work your azz off. You will succeed.
What is not being discussed here is did any of those who became sick have other medical issues that would increase their likelihood of picking up a virus than was going around? Best guess with the sudden limiting of customers in the stores at one time, or only 5 customers within 1000 sq. ft. of store space (Walmart) has to do with A. Worker unrest and B. a healthy bailout of Walmart, Kroger, and others by the Stimulus Bill, to make up for the lost revenue of fewer customers, because why stand in line for hours on end, only to get into the store (finally), for fewer and fewer available goods, + feeling (being?) pressured to get in, and get out, in a hurry? Better have your list made out beforehand, slave! And good luck finding much of what is on that list, anyway.
My guess is this is getting the populace ready for a complete shutdown of food stores. This would also cover up the fact the supply lines are broken. The global mafia is going to finally get its long cherished desire to de-populate the planet, isn’t it? Top shelf Scotch and big Cuban cigars all around.