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The world we are living in right now is not normal.
In recent weeks the new realities for our medical staff, police and teachers have been front and centre (and rightly so) as our country tries to figure out how to function amongst a worldwide pandemic that’s so far killed 180,000 people including 74 here in Australia.
But these aren’t the only professions that are considered “essential” in our restriction heavy world. Yes, they might be critical to the management of any outbreak in our community, but there’s countless other workers required to keep our world ticking over.
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We need supermarket workers to restock shelves for hungry tummies, couriers to deliver to households unable to leave the confines of their four walls. In fact, the prime minister says he considers “someone who has a job” right now to be an “essential worker.”