'I'm just scared that there's going to be an outbreak again, that all it's going to take is that one person that takes off a mask.'
After more than a year of being shut out, cashiers, food vendors, guest greeters and other workers are making their way back to America’s most beloved baseball stadiums, amusement parks and concert venues — but the great return is being met with changes and conflicting feelings of anxiety and excitement as tens of thousands of fans and visitors also make their way back.
Although other stressors remain, such as slow business and placement shifts away from her typical gig because of employment and fan capacity constraints, Hashem is happy to have a reliable paycheck again. "The club committed over $1.5 million to aid Red Sox part-time and seasonal employees whose jobs did not allow them to work remotely during the pandemic. This assistance also extended to our concession partners at Aramark," said Boston Red Sox spokesperson Zineb Curran. "We fully recognize that this funding did not mitigate the full impact of what these employees experienced, but our hope was to provide some measure of help and relief during a very challenging period.
For venues in some parts of the country, the pandemic shutdown was relatively fleeting. Theme parks in Orlando, Florida, were shut down for several months in 2020, but the big parks in California, and smaller, regional attractions like Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, have opened more recently. Disneyland in Anaheim, California, opened on April 30.
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