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the economic impact of this pandemic with more than twenty y six million americans are losing that jobob that been anti shut down protests my report is funny i laugh and kevin go just on the send this in the state of north carolina with 17% of workers. on a jobless. that james ins if people have taken to the streets of rowing in north carolina for the third week in a row. their message hasn't changed they want their state to re open. we gotta open this country out of economic devastation is affecting millions and killing god knows how many people are high risk groups if they should stay home they should stay home with the other people. should have the choice to work. i have nothing coming in no income no customers nothing was heard too much. this is this is worse than the disease is right now. in riskier learning and more than eight hundred thousand people have already lost their charm since mid march when businesses. started getting orders to close. most were independent workers like this tattoo artist who was forced to close up shop six weeks ago. before the pandemic jack's used to tat

but the people who are doing this jobob are trereated as expendable becauause no personal protectiveeak women has bebeen given, no tests have been made available. and that is one thing we have been asking. we sent a letter to governor ron desantis and started to petition that has been spearheaded by change.org. organizations, 180 orgaganizations s have signed id more than 23,000 people have signed it also. neededfor the resources to build a field hospital or repurpose a facility so that showe who started to symptoms of covid-19 can be treated. but so far, there hasn't been any concrerete response to this. we have also asked for the public resouources to be a allod for our community in this moment of crisis. nothing significant has been done. we continue to see how we are just seeing this catastrophe unfold in our c community with y kind of protection instead of offering us a solution to this justem, we are met with news of workers that are producing the food at the national level with these proposals of f current wages instead of -- juan: i want to ask you, in terms of the farmworker