NEW YORK -- Chen Wei's wife begged him to stop making restaurant deliveries because she feared he might contract the coronavirus from a customer.Lee Mengba, another delivery worker, wondered if the hand that reached out for the bag of medication from behind an apartment door on a recent run belonged
NEW YORK — Chen Wei’s wife begged him to stop making restaurant deliveries because she feared he might contract the coronavirus from a customer.
With demand for deliveries surging, a largely immigrant workforce has become a critical link, providing food, groceries, medication and many other items that many people can no longer easily access or are unwilling to go out and purchase. “I’m afraid to make deliveries because I’m afraid to die,” fretted another. “America,” texted a third, “is not easy.”
Aside from food, orders for alcohol were also on the rise, said Enrique Sanchez, who manages a liquor shop in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in Manhattan. “People don’t want to come out,’’ he said. “We usually sell a lot of wine, but now people want spirits, too,” he said. Jing Wang, an organizer of the Biking Public Project, an advocacy group for delivery workers, said they were a particularly vulnerable workforce with no collective power, and they have no choice but to continue working even as so many others are staying home.
“As the city shuts down schools, and prepares to limit all restaurants, bars and cafes to takeout and delivery, it is no secret that most who will be preparing and delivering meals will be immigrants,” Rodriguez wrote. He finally resigned last weekend, telling the owner of the restaurant, Lin Kai, that he couldn’t work for him anymore. “I told him I understood,” Lin said. “We’re all a little nervous. It’s a period of high anxiety.”
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