"Thousands of farmworkers are now carrying a new document with them on the road, in case they get stopped. Barbara Resendiz got hers last Friday, together with her paycheck. The small card explains that the Department of Homeland Security considers her job to be part of the nation's critical infrastructure and that she needs to get to work, despite California's order to shelter in place."
~ D. Charles
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2020/03/27/821449729/essential-status-means-jobs-for-farmworkers-but-greater-virus-risk
If you can, tip them more...
https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/884b3k/food-delivery-workers-told-us-about-their-indescribable-fear-during-the-coronavirus-outbreak
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