Just a word in defence/praise of some of the (Western World's, in particular) most highly underrated... but supposedly not undervalued, occupations - especially in light of/with reference to two wholly unrelated events: to wit, Aotearoa-New Zealand's present epidemic of strike action/stopwork meetings by all and sundry...and America's own 'epidemic' - of fires/'firenadoes'. As I say, there ain't a lot in common between the two, that's for sure... . Nevertheless -
Let's hear it - loud and clear, and in neon lights - for *all our self-sacrificing firefighters, nurses and, yes, even our ever-overlooked cleaners and street-sweepers...who together succeed in managing to keep the plague, the pestilence, death and destruction from our collective door...
...yet, at least here in 'God's Own', get scarcely a look-in - a mutter, a murmur nor a [whatever] (in Winston's esteemed words)...and are generally begrudged the little (materially-speaking) they do happen to accrue...
though handsomely earn and deserve...
*In 9 cases out of ten, anyhow, or 99% of instances (for, yes, there're always, inevitably, individual exceptions to each and every single last rule one could care to make/create/establish, I'll freely admit).
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