I'm just gonna rant.
I'm tired of all this "essential workers are heroes" bullshit.
I am 19 YEARS OLD. I work in fast food. I expose myself every day, and I am struggling to keep myself safe, fed, and a home. I should be at home.
I should have a right to safety without worrying about how I'm going to pay rent, especially in the middle of a pandemic. How am I supposed to get MY food?
All these customers and people telling me I'm a "hero" ? I'm sorry, but I'm no hero. I'm a prisoner to the same system that can't get us masks and medical care for free. I'm a slave to the same system that said it could afford to lose some lives to keep on chugging along.
I, I am one of those lives it's willing to sacrifice. You, your parents, your grandparents, your kids, your friends, your co-workers, the strangers in the street; we're all expendable, we are the sacrifices.
I want to go home. I want to be safe. I want to have a right to be healthy. If I'm such a hero, if we're heroes, where's our compensation? Where's our meals? The roofs over our heads? I may be feeding the public with the fast food I'm forced to make in order to pay the bills and get food on my table, yet I am also the one getting eaten fucking alive.
