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From what I recall at the time the issue with back of house workers is that if anyone on the line has it then everyone is likely to get it. The kitchen is crow
by evgen 5y ago
From what I recall at the time the issue with back of house workers is that if anyone on the line has it then everyone is likely to get it. The kitchen is crowded, it is hot (making PPE seldom used), people are shouting over each other and the noises of cooking, ventilation is pulling from the public in the front of house across the line and then out, and the existing contamination-prevention efforts are all based on touch and not respiration. While front of house people would have been exposed to the general public they were not as confined.
- tomlagier 5y agoTo add to this, cooks are often more economically precarious than front of house & so less likely to stay at home if they are sick.
- jjeaff 5y agoI would also postulate that back of the house workers are more likely to be older, lower income and more recent immigrants. So they may have poorer access to healthcare or simply less knowledge or experience in navigating the healthcare system or less likely to seek medical attention at all. Then of course, receiving poorer medical care when they do seek it.