High levels of deprivation and job insecurity, vast income inequality, housing discrimination and medical disparities have long had a severe impact on the tangle of communities and ethnic minority populations that live in these boroughs. But when combined with the necessity to go to work, to take public transport and to share space in densely packed housing, they also provided the perfect breeding ground for a deadly virus. The domino effect would prove catastrophic.

This is what California just voted to protect. multibillion dollar tech companies legally paying people $2.50 per hour. no benefits, no union, and no power make their own decisions about the work they do like actual independent contractors. You legalized violating Labor law. https://t.co/7iD1Z1RMbY— (@BethLynch2020) February 19, 2021