It's been two years since the WHO called COVID a pandemic, and this question is still timely
. The report notes that former US president Donald Trump legislated a trillion-dollar tax cut for corporations and high-income individuals, while weakening labour protections, health-care coverage and environmental regulations.report, says, “We had every reason to prepare ourselves for a bad epidemic when COVID reached us because this country is full of holes.
Food drives such as this occur regularly in California, to assist the estimated 800,000 farmworkers in the state who live far below the poverty line. On this sweltering afternoon, free COVID-19 tests are available in the car park across from the food distribution site. But that area remains vacant. Such realities meant that deaths mounted for Black and Hispanic people in the United States, who are more likely than white people to hold low-paying jobs that cannot be performed at home.
With people she knew in dire straits, Pacheco wasn’t content to study COVID-19 disparities. She got in touch with grass-roots organizations in Fresno — the most populous city in the valley — and learnt that they had similar concerns. For the first few months, Pacheco and her colleagues say that the Fresno county government, led by a predominantly white board of supervisors, ignored their requests to enforce safer conditions on farms, food-packing plants and warehouses, or to provide paid sick leave and other financial assistance for essential workers.
I ask that you have the compassion to ensure families can stay in their homes during this pandemic. We do not need more people in Fresno County without housing… I lead the food distribution and we have doubled the number of families we serve and desperately need PPE. We have reached out to various agencies and have been turned down. I really need help to keep families in our county fed, we need to work together as a team during times like these.
Indeed, the community organizations found their footing in August, just as the outbreak in the San Joaquin Valley exploded. California governor Gavin Newsom approved US$52 million to fund the coronavirus response in the region, and specified that it should target the disproportionate number of Hispanic people who were testing positive for the coronavirus — they accounted for nearly 60% of cases.
“A lot of them don’t trust the medical community, and I don’t blame them in some respects because historically they haven’t been treated well.” Workers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico harvest carrots in California in 1937. Credit: Dorothea Lange/Farm Security Administration This practice, known as redlining, pushed down property values in the areas, and helped to reinforce racial segregation and inequality. Although lawmakers attempted to mitigate the discriminatory practice in the 1960s, parts of south Fresno still have limited access to parks, Internet services, healthy food and other benefits.
How would Lopez — who asked for her name to be changed because she’s an undocumented immigrant — care for their children without him? Lopez’s eyes fill up again as she explains what it feels like to be an essential worker in a country that seems to want her dead. “When I go to the store covered in dust from working in the field, white people will look at me in disdain, even when I’m wearing a mask and they aren’t,” she says. “I feel awful because they look at us as less than human.”
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