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Above the highway reads a digital sign: "Essential Workers We Thank You." Shot taken from inside a car on the highway.
"Essential Workers We Thank You" highway sign in Wellington, New Zealand.

"Essential workers" defined in Executive Order.

Date: 03/19/2020

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"Essential Workers We Thank You" highway sign in Wellington, New Zealand.

The classification includes workers in these industries: medical and healthcare, telecommunications, information technology systems, defense, food and agriculture, transportation and logistics, energy, water and wastewater, law enforcement, and public works. Farmworkers and home health care nurses in particular call out the hypocrisy of being listed as essential workers yet not provided with adequate protection to continue work.