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A little story about "Essential Employees" during the #coronovarius from a faculty perspective. Those of my students who still have jobs are often 'essential employees' but not MDs and Nurses, they're cashiers, secretaries and food servers. They're on the frontlines too
I start each class with a check in, just asking how they are doing and the level of economic stress that college kids are under is as bad as it is for adults, often with the added weight of student debt. #CoronavirusPandemic just makes it worse
One student works at a national chain, everyone is trained as a cashier, but the store only provides gloves not masks. She's refused to be moved from her station to the front, because she doesn't want to choose between health & her income but that's not the only challenge
Trump is doing a terrible job handling #coronavirus - So why are his approval numbers going up? A thread about polling, politics and people....
In the last two weeks #Trump has hit the highest approval numbers of his presidency. Upwards of 60% approval for handling the pandemic specifically and between 47-49% overall job approval. Which, seems shocking given the administration's horrible messaging
There are 3 likely reasons for this. First, hard as it is to believe but most Americans aren't online and get their news locally. They only see snippets pressers, so they don't actually KNOW how bad #Trump is doing, and assume he is doing his best (a low bar for him)
