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中英对照:我们应对疫情期默默服务的南亚人士心存感激

To South Asians who risk their lives to protect us, we owe them debt of gratitude
来源: 大中报 南茜(Nancy Jin)
 
 
多伦多东南亚社区以远高于其人口构成的比率组成基本服务的劳动力大军,提供了从卡车和出租司机到超市和零售店员工等各种基础服务。他们拿着底薪报酬,面临着在工作场所感染新冠的高风险,夜以继日地为国家在疫情期间的正常运转而辛勤地工作。日益严重的疫情危机不仅凸显出他们的贡献和牺牲,也将他们生活的困境和磨难充分展示在世人面前。
 
The South Asian community in Toronto makes up a disproportionally high essential service workforce -- from truck drivers and cab chauffeurs to grocery workers and retail personnel. They provide services critical to making the country functioning by taking ill-paid jobs while facing heightened Covid risks at the workplace.  The growing pandemic crisis has highlighted their contributions and sacrifices and put their pain and suffering on full display. 

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交运行业员工对保证货运和客运业的有效运转起着至关重要的作用。在多伦多东南亚人口聚集的皮尔区,拥有数以万计的从长途,计程车到巴士司机等交运业工作岗位。 但运送道路并非平坦,旅途中疫情风险丛生。来自疫情重灾区的乘客会将病毒带入拥挤和狭小的车厢,而连接美加高速公路沿线的停车点会成为卡车司机最危险的病毒传染源。
 
Transportation workers are essential to deliver goods and get people around. The Peel region – the South Asians concentrated area, is the home to hundreds of thousands of transportation jobs – from long haul driver to bus operator to cab chauffeurs. But the journey on the road could bring the virus back home. Passengers from Covid hot spots could spread Covid inside an enclosed and cramped vehicle. Meanwhile, the stopovers along the highways linking Canada and the US might become the most threatening source of infection for truck drivers.

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但交运行业仅是皮尔区员工感染新冠的几个高发行业之一。除了该行业爆发的13个疫情之外,自2020年三月以来,已有上百次疫情危机席卷皮尔区的各行业工作场所。尽管新冠病例猛增,许多从事基础服务行业的工人仍不得不前往高风险工作场所继续上班。许多人请不起病假,因为在没有病假工资的情况下,缺勤意味着家庭困境,甚至流离失所。迫于经济压力,有新冠症状的员工不得不在遭受病魔折磨的同时坚守岗位。据皮尔区公共医疗局的信息,在数千名患上新冠的工人之中,有四分之一的员工是带病工作的,某些人甚至在被确诊新冠后继续上班。
 
The occupation is just among several leading industries in the Peel region for employees to contract Covid. However, apart from 13 outbreaks in the transportation sector, the pandemic crisis has engulfed hundreds of Peel workplaces since Mar. 2020. Despite soaring Covid cases, many essential workers have had to continue working and attending high-risk workplaces. Many can’t afford to get sick because without sick pay, absent from work means financial hardship, threatening the roof over their head. Under financial pressure, symptom workers couldn’t take time off to get tested, and Covid positive employees stayed on the job while battling with the illness. According to Peel Public Health, out of thousands of workers who contracted Covid, a quarter of them continued to work with Covid symptoms, and some even went to work after being diagnosed with Covid. 
 
死亡的悲剧更是彰显出基础服务工人所面临的加剧的新冠风险。来自宾顿(Brampton) 的59岁的普年(Karam Signh Punian)是12名死于新冠的加拿大出租司机中的一名,他是在出租司机获得防护设备之前感染了病毒。在经过一个多月的病毒折磨后,普年先生撒手人寰,撇下一家老小包括一名咿呀学语的孙女。具有18年公交车司机经验的杰克斯先生(Mr. Dael Muttly Jacques)去世后,他的工会同事深感万分悲痛,在他们心目中,杰克斯先生是一名勤勤恳恳,尽责尽力的员工。这名宾顿公交车司机的去世还表明,位于皮尔区的亚马逊配送中心可能是他罹患新冠的感染源。
 
Tragic deaths underscore the heightened Covid related risks for essential service workers. Among the 12 taxi drivers in Canada who died of Covid was 59-year-old Mr. Karam Signh Punian from Brampton, who picked up the virus on the job months before PPE was available for drivers.  After over a month’s battle with Covid, Mr. Punian passed away, leaving behind his family including a toddle granddaughter. The death of Mr. Dael Muttly Jacques, an 18-year bus driver has sparked deep grief and mourning from his union colleagues, who remember Mr. Jacques as “a devoted and loyal worker.”  The passing of the Brampton transit driver also suggested that the source for his Covid-infection was a potential outbreak at Amazon’s fulfilling center in Peel. 

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据皮尔区公共卫生局的信息,工作场所是皮尔区新冠疫情的爆发源头,也是导致皮尔区家庭和南亚社区人士被感染的主要因素。在基本服务业员工聚集的L6P社区,其人均新冠感染和死亡率为全加最高。不出所料,南亚社区人士在皮尔区的感染率最高,也在去年GTA各族裔的新冠感染率中高居榜首。
 
According to Peel public health information, the workplace is a significant driver of Covid cases in Peel and the source of broader infections in households and the South Asian community. L6P, the essential worker concentrated neighborhoods, has the highest per capita Covid and mortality cases in Canada. Unsurprisingly, the South Asia community has registered the disproportionally highest infection rate in Peel.  It was also the top racial group in GTA contracted Covid in 2020. 
 
南亚社区新冠的蔓延引发了人们的怀疑和担忧,从而贬低了这些服务业员工所作的贡献和牺牲的价值。但服务于基础服务行业的员工们冒着生命危险,不惜流血、流汗、流泪为保证国家的正常运转以及其他族裔人士的疫情平安而默默无闻的劳作和付出。因此,对这些服务、支持并保护我们的南亚社区人士,我们亏欠他们一份感激之情。
 
The Covid spread through the South Asian community has raised skepticisms and concerns that undermine the value of essential workers’ contributions and sacrifices. But these invisible South Asian workers risk exposing themselves to danger while working through blood, sweat, and tears to ensure much of the country and people from other races can live through the pandemic with comfort and ease. To the South Asian community members who serve, support, and protect us, we owe them a debt of gratitude. 
 

  

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