Write the autobiography of a Frontline Worker. (eg: Police personnel, sanitation workers, doctors, nurses) in about 120-150 words.
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Explanation:
term “frontline workers” often conjures images of doctors in Hazmat suits and soldiers in uniform. But during the coronavirus outbreak, workers across a vast array of industries have found themselves essential parts of the machine that keeps the world in motion, required to do their jobs despite great risk—whether hog farm employees or bus drivers, mental health counselors or police officers. Here, as part of TIME’s new issue, frontline workers of all types share their triumphs and fears in their own voices.
Jeff Pullin—Public Information Officer for Central Ohio Transit Authority
Andre Anglin, 51, bus driver in Columbus, Ohio
I start at 6:45 in the morning, and I usually get off around 6:30 p.m. Before 12 o’clock, it’s like a ghost town. But after 12 o’clock, people start coming out. I greet almost every passenger that comes on. Most people are going to loved ones’ houses to check on them. There’s a few people that might be going to the grocery store. And some people have essential jobs they have to go to.
I feel proud to be able to do my part, especially for the ones that may be going to the hospital because they’re worried that they have it, so they can get checked out. I was in the military, so I still have that sense of honor. I want to do everything I can to make sure that people are taken care of and protected. My employer moved the standing line back so that we’re kind of in an isolated area, and people are now coming in and out the backdoor, so there’s no more up-close personal contact with people coming near the fare box. I also make sure that I’m keeping myself sanitized and everything, but I feel more proud about helping other people than, at this moment, my own safety.
When I was in [the Gulf] war, I was in an aircraft carrier and it was actually stressful in the same way. This is an enemy that we really don’t have a full understanding of. So we’re doing our best to fight something that we don’t know, and I’m just trying to do my part. I also learned especially going to war that a smile can go a long way to making people feel better about everything that’s going on.
I was talking to a gentleman yesterday and he was like, “Without y’all, this city would be shut down.” And he said he wished he could do something special for us. But you know, I thought that him saying thank you was enough for me. —As told to Abby Vesoulis
Courtesy Prince Paul Butau
Prince Paul Butau, 28, is the senior resident medical officer at Parirenyatwa Hospital in Harare, Zimbabwe
At my hospital we are closed to all outpatient and non-emergency services. We are not a COVID-19 hospital, so the government says we do not need protection equipment. So we only get two masks and a paper apron a day. We have goggles, but we have to sanitize them every day with alcohol. We should have full gear. The feeling among us junior doctors is that this is not enough. I don’t want to risk my life seeing a patient in casualty if I don’t have protection.
We don’t know who has COVID or not. Zimbabwe has only tested about 200 people, and they say there are only 11 cases. But I think the government is not being transparent, and it hasn’t done enough to contain the outbreak. I think the numbers are much higher. I am worried that it might explode like in Italy or Iran, but I am just praying it won’t be as bad, because if it explodes like it did in the U.S., I can’t describe in words what it will be like here.
There are only a few ventilators in the public hospitals, maybe less than 20 in the whole country. We have one COVID case who died. He was 30. He died because there was no ventilator at his hospital. His family brought one privately, but there was no electricity socket in his room, and they couldn’t plug it in. It shows how unprepared we are as a country. If there was a functioning system, he would have been fine. If we were not prepared for that one case, how can we handle more?