“It took a global pandemic for the federal government to acknowledge that farmworkers are critical.' —MonicaRamirezOH COVID19
Additionally, because many farmworkers live and work in rural areas, they were likely informed about the recommended safety measures to avoid contracting the virus—like buying extra cleaning supplies and stocking up on food—later than the rest of the general population.
Even before the pandemic hit, farmworkers feared keeping or finding work—and Ramirez knows that coronavirus will only compound this fear more deeply. If they lose the ability to travel within the U.S., farmworkers cannot follow agricultural jobs from state to state and will ultimately lose their source of income.
Farmworkers faced a similar dilemma with the spread of tuberculosis : In 1906, as TB swept the country, Upton Sinclair wrote his famous novel,, which explored how the jam-packed tenements and meatpacking houses where workers lived and worked were breeding grounds for the disease.
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