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A grassroots group of local healthcare workers and thinkers are using spit and saline rinse to test for COVID-19 and want to pilot the tests with as many interested workplaces as possible around Waterloo region.(Yves Herman/Reuters)
New data shows most people in Toronto are still going into work and deemed essential
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While we all continue to hunker down alone in our homes, only leaving for groceries and other necessary trips as ordered by the provincial government, there are those among us who still spend the majority of their time in the outside world for work purposes a shocking number of us in Toronto, in fact.
New estimates put the proportion of residents deemed essential workers in the GTA to be nearly two thirds of the population, around 65 per cent or more than two million individuals, according to an analysis by the Star.
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The fact that postal workers are frontline workers is hardly a secret. Throughout the pandemic we all continued to get our mail, but, more importantly, all of the life-sustaining food and drug deliveries our households have relied on to reduce our own risk of contracting the virus. Postal and delivery workers reduced our collective risk for contracting COVID-19 immensely.
The real question is why all workers during the pandemic, including postal workers, have not had access to regular rapid testing.
While much has been written about the woes of workers telecommuting into the office from home, the fact is many employees physically reported to work in the education, medical, construction retail, hospitality and professional service industries throughout the pandemic.