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Public messaging in the pandemic has said we need to stay at home.
This ignores people who must report to a work site.
The elevation of making good individual choices in the pandemic needs to end.
I was watching Hulu when I first saw the ad. COVID-19 can spread rapidly, an upbeat, urgent voice said. Or we can make choices that help us stay home and stop the spread.
The advertisement went on to encourage people to have medication delivered via the startup Capsule, to help keep our communities safe. It was an ad targeted to people like me, who had spent the pandemic working from home and binging hours of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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Trader Joe’s reinstates NYC employee after highly publicized firing
Ben Bonnema, the NYC Trader Joe’s employee who was fired last week after raising concerns with the grocer’s CEO over workplace COVID-19 safety protocols, is headed back to work on Monday. Trader Joe’s offered to reinstate Bonnema to his former position at its Upper West Side location on Wednesday night, the Daily Beast reports.
Bonnema was first fired from Trader Joe’s on February 26 after sending a letter to company CEO Dan Bane outlining steps that the company should take to upgrade store safety during the pandemic, according to several tweets that Bonnema posted following the incident. The firing attracted national media attention, and public figures, including the former head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, called for Bonnema to be reinstated.