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Mike Greco was worried. In early March 2020, New York City had confirmed its first case of Covid-19, and the vice president of Local 2507, the union representing employees of the city’s emergency medical services (EMS), knew how overworked and exhausted EMS workers already were. At a special City Council hearing on March 5, he testified that EMS was already handling 1.5 million calls a year. “If you were to have another half million calls in a pandemic, you would overwhelm the system,” he said.
In his 17 years as an emergency medical provider, Anthony Almojera thought he had seen it all. “Shootings, stabbings, people on fire, you name it,” he said. Then came COVID-19.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) on Tuesday declared that “sex work is work” in response to a
New York Post article detailing an EMT who turned to OnlyFans to make ends meet throughout the pandemic, contending that the “focus of shame” should remain on Congress’s failure to provide more relief.
“Sex work is work. The federal gov has done almost nothing to help people in months. We must pass stimulus checks, UI, small biz relief, hospital funding, etc. Keep the focus of shame there, not on marginalizing people surviving a pandemic without help,” the New York lawmaker said:
Sex work is work.
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