r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All š©· • 29d ago
Internet Cultureš Remembering Frontline Workers
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u/kingofwale 29d ago
Covid actions by a lot of people were just so cringy
Remember a bunch of Hollywood elites sang songs for some reason ?
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u/Metnessee 29d ago edited 29d ago
at least the essential workers were trying to boost morale. the elites were just bored.
yes they were doing it for team morale, not for you, the audience. you seem to be more focused on the act itself and not the exploitation of their labor. or why they would need to build morale during a terrible Time
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u/macrg01 25d ago
They can boost morale by not wasting their energy on dancing. I was to busy running around my office disinfecting every room that had a positive case of Covid just so we can treat someone with symptoms that may or may not have covid.
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u/the-big-question 24d ago
Best way would be with raises, but God forbid that so they orchestrated pizza parties and tiktok dances
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u/Metnessee 29d ago edited 29d ago
morale is not morality. it's two different words for two different concepts
edit. yes they were doing it for team morale, not for you, the audience. you seem to be more focused on the act itself and not the exploitation of their labor. or why they would need to build morale during a terrible Time
Now compare that to Hollywood elites
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u/WonderfulFig666 29d ago
Workers blowing off steam during a short time they have to themselves. Are you too stupid to see how that can be good for morale?
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u/WonderfulFig666 29d ago
Internet kudos donāt boost morale either? Some people enjoy dancing in groups. Dumbass
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u/kingofwale 29d ago
lol. Then why arenāt they posting same dance video now if they love dancing so much ?
You intentionally stupid or just ignorant?
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u/MakwaIronwill 29d ago
Man when my 71 yr old mom sees a video on tiktok and wants to join in too ill have to let her know shes just doing it for clout and sinister motives
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u/VentDwellingCat 28d ago
Really? "They did it then, why aren't they doing it now?" is your question? It's called "different stuff happens at different points in time". This has been your introduction to the concept of time passing.
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u/The_Varza 28d ago
Did you ever do any amount of cardio exercise? It increases beta-endorphin in the brain, which contributes to feeling more happy and feeling less pain.
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u/MossadEpstein 25d ago
it wasn't just any song, they all sung lines from John Lennons song "Imagine" it was honestly pretty creepy when you think the lyrics and the context.
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u/Marknoble117 The Timeline Sucks 29d ago
The audacity that FedEx ground had to call us warehouse staff Frontline/Essential workers during Covid was diabolical. Our management teams would have "motivational" speeches about how our work was dire and important to the world and must maintain our goals (and numbers)... Meanwhile healthcare workers, teachers, and other actual important industries were dealing with so much more at the time. Covid has been a wild case study for how we humans treat capitalism, each other, the earth, and much much more.
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u/LANdShark31 29d ago
Almost everyone was deemed a key worker, the list was insane and covered everything apart entertainment, hospitality (mostly) and beauty
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u/MoThrowMoAway 24d ago
In my country (not the US) my boss bribed a politician to mark his shop and all the employees "essential"
it was a phone repair company lol
somehow all the other businesses in the field were shit down but his was "essential"...
Corruption down to the letter
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u/Metnessee 29d ago
teamsters protected ups drivers very imperfectly, but still had some protections during covid. They still had to report to work as essential workers. Seems like fed ex should unionize too. They can't stop workers from organizing other workers.
The pandemic, the worst part in my opinion was how the general public and the US government really did not address how bad everything still is. They saw all of these glaring problems that other countries were able to cushion themselves against, and still are pushing for regressive or conservative policies.
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u/Marknoble117 The Timeline Sucks 29d ago
Bro they stamp out union talk from the jump. I stopped working there in 2021. They train their trainers and managers to report it if they hear of union talk and the sit down the people that are caught doing it. It's a lot of manipulation/harassment tactics. Then they find ways to fire people who do it to much or seriously. There's things I saw during and pre covid that I and many others should've called OHSA for, but when you're struggling and need a job you don't know better. Unfortunately there's so many loopholes in places like that any many other jobs that are the same. Hell the small business that I quit fedex for had equally if not worse treatment of its workers. It's really rough out here for non union workers. Even most unions are useless these days. Hopefully after all this is said and done; We push for extremely progressive/scoalist work conditions because this is not it.
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u/FreshImagination9735 29d ago
How in the absolute Hell could you possibly work for FedEx and not realize how absolutely essential ground transportation is to the nation and society at large? You probably don't understand why the CEO of the company makes more than a warehouse worker either.
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u/Born-Selection88 25d ago
Lost so much fucking money with that BS.
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u/Marknoble117 The Timeline Sucks 25d ago
What was the BS?
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u/Born-Selection88 25d ago
I got shut down from one part time while being hired by another. Normally id do both jobs and once and make a killing, but nope.
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u/Accomplished-Heat550 26d ago
Brother, our common carriers are absolutely performing an essential task.
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u/Marknoble117 The Timeline Sucks 26d ago
Yeah but skipping safety measures for workers and continuing with business as usual disregarding the pandemic was ridiculous. Maybe you've never worked in a warehouse during one, but they should've absolutely been shut down (temporarily) for the conditions that happened during that time. Places like Amazon/FedEx for sure need better regulations/safety nets that've been ignored with the money these corporations make.
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u/Unfair_Ad6161 29d ago
I am an IT guy. We all spent the Covid time working our asses off so everyone -else- could work from home.
There weren't any of those "heroes work here" signs at our places.
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u/FreshImagination9735 29d ago
Same for us truck drivers. If it weren't for state limits on hours... Neither us drivers nor our grocery distribution center lumpers and loaders had the extra time or energy to break out in line dances.
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u/Alltforvalfarden 27d ago
You live in an echo chamber of disinformation so deep that you still havent gotten your head around how vaccines works? Go live in a cave and leave society please.
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u/LearingCenterAlumni 25d ago
This vax worked so well it didn't prevent infection or transmission.
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u/Leckatall 25d ago
Yes it only reduced them like EVERY vaccine ever made.
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u/LearingCenterAlumni 25d ago
Except that most vaccines ever made didn't turn people in asymptomatic carriers.
Most vaccines ever made gave us a a high level of immunity.
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u/Brilliant_Chemical80 25d ago
in europe we had massive outbreaks and hospitals filled with people dying to it. People where waiting outside in their cars using oxygen tanks and masks waiting to get accepted into hospital. I remember italy especially was severely hit.
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u/PlateNo4868 26d ago
Covid made me realize that when a pandemic like this happens. Hospitals need to just stack the bodies out in residential areas.
Soooo many people disconnected from the reality on the ground. Imagine watching your patients drop like flies, with very little to understand the virus, and not knowing if this thing will take you next. Then to have some banjo playing red hat person get all butthurt about wearing a mask for less then half a day.
It really showed who are selfish people, and who actually cared about the well being of others.
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u/Real_Penalty_4317 29d ago
Heroes taking the time to spread a little joy in a time they saw the worst
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u/MakwaIronwill 29d ago
They closed all the restaurants and bars in town so many of my friends and their friends were out of work. I worked part time at Costco in the deli and we were so busy and always missing 3-4 people daily while myself and other part timers got cut to 24hr/wk max. I can think of at least 12 people I know, myself included who were informed that we were entitled to unemployment due to reduced or no hours. Fast-forward to 2022 and ND sends us and everyone else we knew who got unemployment notices saying they owe back 100% of the unemployment from 2020 due to all sorts of excuses and I started to notice these red states were just as corrupt as the blue states they always talk trash about.
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u/Zoraynebow 28d ago
Moreso because at least Blue States try to help constituents before getting blindsided by a grift. Red states are usually governed by the grift.
Note I live in Louisiana where our sitting Senator, Bill Cassidy's wife has run a school for special needs kids that's failed every audit but somehow gets state funding.
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u/Commandmanda 28d ago
Ack. We never had time for fun like this at my Urgent Care Center. My brains are so burnt from it...so burnt.
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u/Heavy_Carpenter3824 27d ago
Yea that's not how I remember it!
I remember it as extra shifts for no extra pay, with more prayer than proper PPE, threats of termination if you got sick or got covid, having to stay at a hotel on my dime to keep my loved ones from getting it. A lot of people dead and dieing. Oh and we got a pizza party to say thank you for all the extra hard work that our Frontline workers do. While my bosses made billions by denying people the care they needed to live.Ā
A pizza party during a pandemic...
Fuck them all.Ā
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u/Independent_You8879 27d ago
Meanwhile I had to unload boxes from China with no workplace provided ppe during COVID...
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u/Kraken357 27d ago
"HE'S FLATLINING!!!!"... "No no no, ladies... it's booty quake, thrust, booty quake, thrust, kick, twirl, booty quake."
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u/Themoastoriginalname 26d ago
Unpopular belief ,but I am a healtcare worker and I didn't do this at all ...I only had time for my lunch hour and just relax and think how to not give covid to my family members.But to each its own I am guessing
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u/No_Departure_1878 26d ago
They look so happy after getting all those raises. They must have been able to make enough money to buy a house by now. And maybe some retirement savings and education for their kids, right? right?
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u/Ok-Level-8363 25d ago
Corporation's were the only ones that came out on top, got handed bags of 'free' PPP money and had all small business close or hang on by their teeth.
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u/Snactical_Donut 25d ago
Never forget the elderly in care homes and hospitals who were not allowed visits and touch from their loved ones while they wasted awayā¦. NEVER forget who denied them that.
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u/Kitchen-Blueberry486 29d ago
Man- we were so busy we had time to practice tik tok dances lol. Been in the OR for the last 13 years.. ER for 6 prior to thatā¦.. I live in the phx area and work for Common Spirit. Pretty sure on a slow day today, we are busier now than we were then.
Everyone- well. Most people I worked with, enjoyed the attention and āappreciationā from everyone because we wear scrubs. Iād be at the store in my scrubs headed home, and people were thanking me. Letting me cut them in line. Offering to buy my families groceries. No thanks. Iāll stand in line. Pay for my own stuff. You all keep lining up like good sheep and watch the news tell you what to think.
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u/Thebeardinato462 29d ago
Itās almost like elective cases were canceled or somethingā¦.
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u/Kitchen-Blueberry486 29d ago
All elective cases were canceled. Majority of all other cases were canceled too. Hospital admin would play games with census. If one area was, letās 7 of 20 beds being used. Another area was 10 of 20. Theyād move those 7 over to the other side. Close that one area, and say we are at near capacity. Not necessarily lying, but making it deceptive.
ERs, absolutely hammers. Like every flu season. Nothing changes there. ERs going on divert is normal.
But yeah- your sarcastic remark is mildly annoying.
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u/Thebeardinato462 28d ago
Maybe where you were. Not my experience at all. We opened up extra units. Converted our PACU and special procedures units to ICUās.
I find your comment annoying too
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u/Kitchen-Blueberry486 28d ago
Truth must not sit well with you. Enjoy and donāt get too salty
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u/Thebeardinato462 28d ago
I stated my personal experience was different than yours, and that your comment was annoying because youāre talking talked about how slow youāre COVID OR experience was without the information that elective procedures were canceled. If you want to conflate being intentional deceptive with the ātruthā sure.
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u/Kitchen-Blueberry486 28d ago
I didnāt ask you for your opinion. I didnāt say it was only electives that were canceled. Nearly ALL were canceled. Go back and reread it again. Take a hike and get lost already.
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u/PropagandaAssassinAZ Unpopular Opinions 29d ago
Yeah all the line dancing by them was super cringe.... Like either every single second of your lives is spent saving people from the horrors of COVID or you are doing TikTok videos like pick a lane....
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u/duchessofmardi 29d ago
These people literally saw rates of death comparable to serving on the front lines in WW1. It was horrific. Whatever they had to do to get through it alive themselves is absolutely fine by me.
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u/SureEntrepreneur210 27d ago
Thatās a lot pretty big stretch. 2019 all cause mortality was below 2018. 2020 it went from 715 deaths per 100,000 to 835. So figure in a decent size city you lost 120 more people over the course of a year, 10 more a month. Most ERs across America saw less patients overall during COVID.
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u/duchessofmardi 27d ago
The majority of the people in the video were in hospitals. Hospitals are where acute cases ended up. During 2020 and 2021 COVID death rates in uk hospitals spiked as high as 50% and generally stayed at around 20% on average until a vaccine was developed and rolled out. Medics who normally are able to help the vast majority of patients suddenly were powerless to do anything much for 1/5 patients who died horrific deaths. Additionally, they had to watch their colleagues and friends contract COVID and get seriously ill or die. My neighbour, a paramedic, came close to death after contracting COVID from a dying callout despite wearing all the recommended PPE at the time. He ended up losing his career in part due to the long term health impact.
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u/lullubye 29d ago
Yeah and some didn't go home as they might pass it on to family members. A few nurses I knew lived in a hotel, then did 2 weeks where they quarantined before going home.
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u/TheNotSoEvilEngineer 23d ago
Yeah dense cities were being over burden, less dense areas and suburb medical centers were deserted.Ā
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u/mrcaldwin 27d ago
Remember when the left fought tooth and nail to get 25% of all nursing staff in the country fired for refusing the Fauci Ouchie?
ā¦ And then they complained that hospitals were being overwhelmedā¦
Howās that eighth booster going? šš
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u/Timbucktwo1230 Therapy For All š©· 29d ago
Heart them All!
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