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Workers who quit rather than risk COVID on job still hope to collect unemployment
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Jonathan Burlingame had seen enough in mid-July.
The machines at the factory he worked at in South Boston were not wiped down enough, he said. Gloves and masks were in short supply, except for the workers who, like himself, took it upon themselves to bring their own. And he heard that some workers were testing positive, even though management hadn’t said a word.
With his parents moving in with him in a matter of weeks his father, 75, a two-time cancer survivor and mother, 71, both fleeing rising coronavirus cases in Florida Burlingame quit, deciding that he couldn’t continue to go into a workplace he no longer believed was safe. Burlingame’s employer did not respond to a request for comment.