Dear Governor Lamont,
I am a proud “essential” worker at Whole Foods Market in West Hartford. Every single day, 40 hours a week, I – along with thousands of other Connecticut residents—diligently make my way to work, where I serve the general public for 8 long, mostly thankless hours a day. Ask any grocery store employee and they will tell you that we work incredibly hard, all the time, receiving little appreciation from the general public. Normally this is not something that upsets me beyond a passing irritation. However, your recent inability to recognize the constant dangers that workers endure in our daily efforts on the general public’s behalf, over the last LIVING HELL of a year, by denying us a place among the first stages of 1B, is beyond reprehensible.

Enough is Enough. On behalf of all of us who have been bending over backwards every day these past 11 months, to better serve you and the general public - shame on you.
Shame on you for not recognizing us sooner and giving us the protection we so desperately need, and consistently placing us farther back in line, behind groups that simply DO NOT need the vaccine with the same urgency that we Frontline Essential workers do.
Concerned, Overwhelmed, and Out of Patience,
Alec McAlister
PS- I voted for you. This is not so much about your policies, as it is about our lives.