They are agreeing to work there because the alternative would be the streets/moving back with parents/enlisting in the army. They are agreeing to work an essen

They are agreeing to work there because the alternative would be the streets/moving back with parents/enlisting in the army. They are agreeing to work an essential front line job most likely without health insurance, which means that they will have to purchase health insurance off of the state or federal exchange which may or may not be a garbage high deductible plan with a $2-5k deductible. What will most likely happen is that the same workers if not offered insurance from their employers will just forgot insurance and hope/pray that they don’t get sick. In which case for a mild Covid case (80%mild in the younger adult workers that typically occupy these jobs) then they come to work sick and infect the whole place workers and customers both. I remember in Seattle checking out at a Trader Joe’s in January in Seattle and the checker looking like absolute death and obviously had a cough but was still working, understandably some people have rent to pay but to suggest this isn’t happening everywhere that doesn’t at least offer decent insurance/hmo coverage would be nuts. The solution is at the very least to force decent health insurance for all retail workers, or emergency subsidies for all grocery workers health insurance until Covid is over.