Speaker 1: For the last thirty years, whenever a calamity happened in America,
Speaker 1: the drive by media had a standard storyline. No matter
Speaker 1: what the circumstances were, Women and minorities were said to
Speaker 1: be the hardest hit. Hurricane, women and minority's hardest hit. Flood, fire, famine,
Speaker 1: economic downturn, always the same, Women and Minority's hardest hit.
Speaker 1: And he became the punch line of a joke I
Speaker 1: told about the apocalypse. I said, a New York Times
Speaker 1: headline would be world end tomorrow, Women and Minority's hardest hit.
Speaker 1: But that's no longer to go to narrative. It took
Speaker 1: a pandemic to change the storyline. On Monday, the Amazon
Speaker 1: Prime Washington Post had this headline, Undocumented workers among those
Speaker 1: hit first and worst by the coronavirus shutdown. You legal
Speaker 1: aliens in the construction and hospitality sectors have already lost
Speaker 1: their jobs. As the post. Illegal aliens working in agriculture
Speaker 1: and healthcare are at higher risk of being exposed to
Speaker 1: COVID nineteen. They don't have access to paid sick leave,
Speaker 1: health insurance, and the Social Safety Net, so they are
Speaker 1: the new hardest hit. Don't don't get me wrong, I'm
Speaker 1: not making light of anybody suffering, but the tens of
Speaker 1: thousands hit by this virus have been hit hard. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: the entire United States economy has been hardest hit, virtually
Speaker 1: shut down with no end in sight, but every government
Speaker 1: worker is still being paid