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Nurses Are the Heroes of 2020 (and Always)

There was no other option. To say that healthcare workers in particular, nurses went above and beyond this year would be to underscore their life-saving work. Nurses were championed by the mainstream media as warriors, valorized for their ability to treat in the midst of a pandemic, in conditions referred to with wartime jargon: they traveled to field hospitals, working in triage. But being a nurse shouldn’t be likened to military obligation “hero” narratives help to make sense of memorializations, to associate working in an ICU with “the ultimate sacrifice.” These were women who risked their lives not for gallantry, but because they were doing their jobs, and their jobs became life-threatening. They protested untenable working conditions, and fought for better protections while battling covid-19, battling labor injustices while masking up for those most vulnerable.

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