  {"id":24022,"date":"2021-01-20T14:54:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T14:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/?p=24022"},"modified":"2021-01-26T21:10:37","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T21:10:37","slug":"protecting-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/2021\/01\/20\/protecting-the-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting the Public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;full_width&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_image=&#8221;24382&#8243; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;150px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_row_inner row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section_slide=&#8221;no&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1611154227045{padding-top: 15px !important;padding-right: 15px !important;padding-bottom: 15px !important;padding-left: 15px !important;background-color: rgba(24,41,87,0.8) !important;*background-color: rgb(24,41,87) !important;}&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Protecting the Public<\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/4&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;150px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#7eb1dc&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"rev-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Nebraska state legislator Tony Vargas \u201908 works to safeguard a community.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;25px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_24582\" style=\"width: 359px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-24582\" class=\" wp-image-24582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/vargas_800x600-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/vargas_800x600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/vargas_800x600-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/vargas_800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/vargas_800x600-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/adv\/alumni-news-media\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/vargas_800x600-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 349px) 100vw, 349px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-24582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2018PRAGMATIC IDEALIST\u2019: That\u2019s the phrase Vargas uses to describe himself as a public servant. Last summer, Vargas tried to convince his colleagues in the Nebraska state legislature to consider his measure to protect the state\u2019s meatpackers from COVID-19 infection. Having failed by two votes, he will reintroduce the measure in January. \u201cOne really encouraging change is that doctors and nurses and health care and infectious disease experts from our state have been using their voices to sound the alarm,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I think it\u2019s brought the public closer to changing their views\u201d regarding public health mandates.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Tony Vargas experienced firsthand the tragedy of the pandemic last spring, as it ravaged the New York City region. His parents, immigrants from Peru, continued to work their jobs, as they had for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Both contracted the virus. His father, Antonio, a machinist who worked onsite and in close proximity to others, spent a month on a ventilator before he died in late April.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas did not see his father in that final month. In constant touch with his family in New York, he remained in his adopted hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, protecting his constituents in one of the hardest-hit areas of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Vargas is the only Latino lawmaker in Nebraska\u2019s unicameral legislature. The state and many of its public and private establishments have resisted mandates concerning masks and physical distancing. That has made the task of educating the public critical. Vargas, who represents a district in which nearly half of the population is identified as Hispanic, arranged for the first Spanish language video in the Omaha region.<\/p>\n<p>He showed up everywhere from testing sites to produce distribution stands talking to Spanish-speaking constituents in their native language about the health guidelines and why they were important.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;17px&#8221; image_repeat=&#8221;no-repeat&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"p1\"><b>\u201cI think it puts people at ease,\u201d Vargas told the <em>Omaha World Herald<\/em>. \u201cWhen people see me and they recognize me, and they see me with a mask and I\u2019m telling them, \u2018This is an important behavior practice that we can do to protect each other,\u2019 more people see it as normal, and it\u2019s not invasive, and it\u2019s gonna help our community.\u201d<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row row_type=&#8221;row&#8221; use_row_as_full_screen_section=&#8221;no&#8221; type=&#8221;grid&#8221; text_align=&#8221;left&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;&#8221; box_shadow_on_row=&#8221;no&#8221;][vc_column][vc_column_text]In July, Vargas took on a greater battle: to convince his colleagues in a deeply conservative state to support mandatory protections for the state\u2019s meatpackers. Their factories were COVID-19 hotspots, and workers and their family members were contacting their leaders, desperate for support.<\/p>\n<p>The story made it all the way to the BBC, which called Vargas\u2019s quest \u201ca battle against time that revealed much about race, politics and workers\u2019 rights in the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vargas made his appeal in starkly personal terms, reminding his colleagues about his own loss, a tragedy magnified so many times over in the lives of the state\u2019s meatpackers. By only two votes, his colleagues decided against considering the measure on the floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere wasn\u2019t enough time, but also there wasn\u2019t enough will,\u201d Vargas said in late November. \u201cNow, we\u2019re facing a substantial surge. But I have to remain hopeful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Handily reelected to a second term, Vargas will return to work in January. He has a number of items on his agenda. 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