April 10, 2020
Sidney's Picks: Landfills, Instacart Monsters, and Prison Workers

Photo credit:
Inauguración del Hospital Municipal de Chiconcuac, Creative Commons.
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.