Asking delivery workers out onto the streets during a curfew forces them to weigh personal safety against paying their bills
, but these ad-hoc curfews are generally allowing police to selectively enforce the temporary rules on whoever they choose. And even though things ended fine for this deliverer, recent history proves not every police interaction ends so peacefully.
The fact is the courier wouldn’t have had this interaction at all had someone not placed a delivery order close to the end of curfew in the first place. Ordering food in might be even more necessary in these times of restaurant closures and coronavirus, but when there’s a curfew involved, it’s outright dangerous. And everyone should be questioning whether they really need to before clicking “order.
With a pandemic still raging, food delivery has become newly crucial for many people who, because of health risks or ability, have no other way to obtain food. It’s precisely why restaurants and delivery have been considered “essential” businesses. But there are also plenty of people for whom delivery is solely an act of privilege, who would think, five minutes before a curfew, “I could really go for some sushi,” and put in an order without thought to the state of the city.
Delivery has become essential not just for those without other options to obtain food, but for the workers themselves — and asking them out onto the streets during a curfew forces them to weigh personal safety against paying their bills. As unemployment has skyrocketed, food delivery is one of the few industries
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