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Collected Item: “Essential Worker Exhaustion”

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Essential Worker Exhaustion

What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?

photograph

Tell us a story; share your experience. Describe what the object or story you've uploaded says about the pandemic, and/or why what you've submitted is important to you.

A sign taped up in an unknown store window expressing the staff's frustration and asking for kindness following incidents in which customers were rude to already overworked staff.

Use one-word hashtags (separated by commas) to describe your story. For example: Where did it originate? How does this object make you feel? How does this object relate to the pandemic?

essential workers, economy

Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)

unknown

Give this story a date.

2020-05-20
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