The State of Texas deserves the utmost condemnation from the entire civilized world for its policy of forcing elderly and severely at-risk “essential workers” to stay at their jobs through the Covid pandemic. Many have died because of this. People who were laid off by their employers can refuse to return to work if they are severely at risk and still receive unemployment but those who were not laid off in the first place could not, and cannot, voluntarily leave their jobs and claim unemployment no matter how great their risk. This is fucking inhuman, yet neither political party has addressed it at all. State affiliated medical personnel are under strict orders not to assist these people in claiming unemployment, for example by recommending quarantine. Essential workers, especially the low paid and high risk ones, are just not even human in this state. I intend to raise bloody hell over this until someone in power pays attention.