In Communist China, this women would have been afforded a pension, full health benefits, and housing five years earlier.
Which, I have heard, is also horrible
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Uphill both ways? With a hot potato in her pocket to keep her warm and eat for lunch? Yeah, my grandpa told me that story.
I was also sent to school with a hot potato to keep me warm... is that not a thing anymore?
Those are crazy distances! Super impressive to be able to do that (ignoring why it might be necessary)
I'm not sure it makes sense, thats like 6 hours of walking one way. Maybe she's speed walking but still how fast could she go?
I'll bet it's a story of "well my car broke down and my job doesn't pay enough to get it fixed, so it was either walk or get fired (and thus lose health insurance and the pay that's keeping a roof over my head)." Seen it enough in my lifetime - a coworker used to walk 4 miles down the highway to his workplace for the same reason.
I'm saying I don't think its feasible whether she would put up with it or not.
If she's walking 12 hours a day for an 8 hour shift, she has 4 hours to sleep and eat? I think someone's exaggerating here or something. I'm leaning towards the story is fake, but I haven't really tried to verify it.
It looks like she only walked home from work, and didn't need to walk both ways. I can't confirm if she was getting full-time hours at work. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/11/04/gofundme-fedex-worker-darlene-quinn-12-mile-walk/4154337002/
She is likely taking about 4 hours to walk each way.
I had to walk 18km to and from work for a while, but I was (likely) in better shape than her, so the 18 km took me three hours.
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Walks through what? Nuclear fallout? She looks 90.
You'd look that way too, sun/weather exposure, perhaps tooth/gum loss for no access to medical care, especially dental. Perhaps lived a lifetime of trauma, as a kid, then a wife.
Probably because she’s got to walk 12-24 miles (unclear if 12mi one way or round trip) and also work six days a week and probably has for many years. That takes a toll on the body, not to mention she’s probably missing out on fully homemade meals because she’s got no time to cook, so she’s ingesting more salt and sugar and microplastics (the added fat is probably balanced out by the walking, but the rest isn’t necessarily) as well as spending more time in the sun, wind, and exposed to exhaust particles and other traffic pollution than most people her age.
not too far from modern suburbia
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