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Throughout the COVID pandemic health care workers have been called heroes. There were stories written about them in the paper, there were signs posted in yards thanking them, and frontline workers were even honored at the Super bowl. While our rhetoric hailed them as heroes, the truth is they were treated as superhuman robots. They […]

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