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Fourteen months into the global pandemic, after 463,000 COVID-19 cases and 8,050 deaths, Ontario is providing paid sick leave for workers.
Forced into it by the doctors and scientists advising the province, and public outrage over the handling of the brutal third wave, the government announced on the Day of Mourning, held to remember workers killed, injured or sickened on the job a stingy three days of paid sick leave.
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“Overlooked, underappreciated and, in a way, betrayed.”
That’s how it feels, an employee of a major grocery store in Windsor told me.
Yet while we stay home, they keep showing up for work. They need their jobs, and we need to eat.
The pandemic’s first wave was “very scary,” said this employee, who asked to remain anonymous. Customers flooded stores, panic buying.
The employee would remind people to stay two metres apart, and some would respond, “f off.”
Now, some customers still walk in without masks, said an employee at another major grocery store in Windsor. When staff remind them to wear masks, “they just ignore them and walk in,” said the second employee, who also asked to remain anonymous.
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Re: Jarvis: Want to get a COVID-19 vaccination downtown? No, thank you, by Anne Jarvis, March 25
It was interesting to read that the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit’s online bookings filled up quickly at the WFCU Centre and St. Clair College clinics (located on the city’s outskirts).
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But that the clinic in the city’s core had appointment availability every day Thursday through Saturday even with an overwhelming amount of people eagerly waiting to get vaccinated and Windsor Regional Hospital’s CEO David Musyj offering many incentives. Yet, it still could not attract a full house downtown.