Directions: Choose a person from your community who has shown the value of
responding to the needs of others being a frontliner amid the Covid-19 pandemic
(e.g. doctor, nurse, policeman, fireman, garbage collector, delivery personnel,
etc.). Write a letter telling how thankful you are by stating famous quotations
from famous people related to helping people in need. Use direct and reported
speech as you write your letter.
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Answer:
We all know by now that keeping our hands clean is one of the most effective ways to keep the coronavirus away. But what if it’s your job to get your hands dirty?
Waste collectors do just that every day to keep our cities clean, pandemic or not.
We might think that the virus disappears, for all intents and purposes, once we place our possibly contaminated garbage outside. Not so for sanitation workers, both formal and informal, who become susceptible to exposure. In close contact with massive quantities of waste, including materials on which the virus can stay alive for many hours, they provide a service that is quite possibly more needed than ever.
“In this emergency situation excessive amounts of garbage in cities can host the virus and facilitate the spread of the disease,” says Alfredo Rihm, a specialist in solid-waste management at the IDB. “This accumulation must be avoided, both inside and outside houses. That’s why it is essential to maintain the continuity of sanitation services.”