I'm really tired of the Brampton slander in general, but especially over COVID.

We're a diverse and rapidly growing working-class town y'all love to point at & laugh, with a nice hint of racism on the side, but we keep on working and dying doing the jobs no one else wants.

This place is home to:

Truckers & logistics workers driving into hotspots across North America, day and night, so you can have the essential supplies you so desperately need - like the toilet paper you idiots kill each other for.

Factory & warehouse workers doing the overtime so the economy keeps moving & you can get that overnight delivery of crap you probably don't actually need but it makes you happy during these trying times & you order it anyway because you want to treat yourself. Well yea, fuck.

Drivers spending all day, every day, on the roads crisscrossing this bloody region so you can get your precious overnight delivery of toilet paper you don't actually need to hoard or to drop you off somewhere because you're important.

Retail workers all of you were just hailing as heroes like 6 months ago busting their asses restocking shelves with your favourite cupcake sprinkles so you can have a fun time pretending you're on Zumbo's Just Desserts (more like Nailed It, but whatever) as you work from home.

Places of worship which act as food banks and community centres, because there also haven't been enough investments in these parts over decades, that have been essentially shut down and breaking said communities for months now.

Busy daycares and schools because not only do we have one of the youngest populations in Canada, but people out here are doing jobs that they cant do from home and have no choice but to send their kids back so they can provide for their families and keep a paycheque going.

Hospitals and local health care at the brink because of chronic underfunding for decades in Brampton that has left us with far fewer beds, infrastructure, and support than our neighbours, including cities and towns with similar or smaller populations.

Yea we know there is a fucking pandemic happening right now.

We know we need to flatten the curve, that we got to stay healthy.

We're working hard at it like everyone else, navigating confusing communications and instructions from across Canada.

/end thread