Before heading out with his crew of farmworkers, field lead Carlos Garcia donned a blue button-up shirt, a jacket, jeans and work boots. He washed his hands before slipping gloves over them.
Carlos Garcia, 73, is being extra cautious amid the coronavirus pandemic because of his age and the fact that he suffers from diabetes. He now wears long sleeves and gloves at all times.,” he said — to the field worker. “God blesses us. We can’t do anything else.More than a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of its fruits and nuts are grown in California. Shelter-in-place orders in California exempt farm workers as essential employees.
Carlos Garcia washes his hands at an orange orchard near Reedley in the San Joaquin Valley. More than himself, he said he worries about infecting one of his grandchildren if he were to contract the virus. “These inequities that our families are living with, they’ve always been there,” she said. “But when things like the wildfires happen, when things like a global pandemic happen, you really get to see those disparities laid bare.”
But total social distancing isn’t possible. She doesn’t know how to drive, so she depends on her sister-in-law for rides to work.Cruz Lopez said her employer hasn’t mentioned the virus. On an overcast day last week, she picked strawberries while a popular bachata song by Romeo Santos played from a loudspeaker. Some workers were separated by several rows. But one man in blue latex gloves labored in the row directly next to hers.
For god sakes do something or next season your fruit will be rotting on your trees.
...and they pay taxes
chelseyheath So fix em up, dammit!
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Because we live in a PlutocracyOfMaximums and the plutocracy wants to treat everyone like undocumented workers. This is evil, and these working people are vilified to pander to the misinformed voters and the owner/donor class. The ownership class are the criminals!
If they are 25 or younger Gavin gave them free healthcare.
andrewzimmern will you be covering this situation eventually?
Are they ill?
Then you won’t eat. Or, go out & hook them up. 🤷♂️
More reason for these folks to not come to very dangerous United States. We can’t afford to take care of them.
chowleen Seems like the perfect time to offer them amnesty. Seriously. It’s long past time.
It's either better here or where they came from. They choose to be here, despite having no legal right to be in the country. What do they expect? 5 billion citizens of foreign countries aren't getting US aid. Are Americans expecting Mexico to pay our bills? No.
Once the undocumented farm workers die, who will pick the fruit? Waiting for the retards in Red Hats to put them to use.
CosechaMovement Yes these farm workers put food on our plates!! And they get absolutely no respect !! I hope they stop working so all you haters can grow your own damn food !!
Genocide-lite.
kimster_2012 God bless y’all and y’all families
Maybe less people will come here illegally now after this pandemic
I hope they don’t work and let the food rott in the fields. My people do so much and don’t even get treated with basic human rights. Like all the other people striking, I hope a strike from farm workers paves the way for better bennifits, rights and dignity for everyone else.
Despite being 73 with diabetes, Carlos Garcia can't afford to stop working. He worries about catching it and passing it to his five children and 12 grandchildren, who constantly fill his home.
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