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Clear It With Sidney

The best of the week’s news by Lindsay Beyerstein

Sidney's Picks: Landfills, Instacart Monsters, and Prison Workers

The Best of the Week’s News: 

  • The first U.S. ER doctor to die of Covid-19 was a champion of the disenfranchised.
     
  • What it’s like to work at a landfill during a pandemic.
     
  • The worst people in the world are luring Instacart delivery workers with huge tips and then yanking the tips back when the groceries arrive. 
     
  • Unicor, the federal prison labor program, kept many inmate workers on the job without PPE well into March and still has some sewing masks. 
     
  • The Covid Crash caused cutbacks at over 1000 media outlets and a group of journalists created The Furlough Fund to support each other.