WEBVTT - Four Years of COVID

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peepsend Welcome to wok F Daily with Me

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<v Speaker 1>your Girl, Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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<v Speaker 1>on this book Wednesday, I actually want to do a

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<v Speaker 1>bit of reflection and I am going to use today's

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<v Speaker 1>episode to really have us do what mainstream media and

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<v Speaker 1>sadly this administration hasn't done since it came into office,

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<v Speaker 1>which is offer up a really deep reflection on where

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<v Speaker 1>we are four years following COVID nineteen. So this week

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<v Speaker 1>I had I will also have a conversation with our friend,

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<v Speaker 1>doctor Jonathan Metzel about the fact that but four years ago,

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<v Speaker 1>him and I began a conversation that we've been doing

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<v Speaker 1>every week for the last four years, that him and

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<v Speaker 1>I had started our work together at a time when

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<v Speaker 1>we just didn't know what else to do, so we said,

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<v Speaker 1>let's at least be in conversation, let's let least touch

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<v Speaker 1>base once a week, and four years later, here we are.

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<v Speaker 1>But the reason why I want to use this woke

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<v Speaker 1>Wednesday because I want to remind folks that wokeness right

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<v Speaker 1>is about consciousness. It is about being aware of and

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<v Speaker 1>conscious to the world around us. Right. Yes, as it

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<v Speaker 1>pertains to systems, you know, interconnected systems of oppression, but

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<v Speaker 1>in general, folks like, what the fuck is just going on?

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<v Speaker 1>How we are feeling right? That we are human beings

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<v Speaker 1>that continue to just do instead of be and how

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<v Speaker 1>we don't end up in a place of consistent repetition

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<v Speaker 1>right of doing the same things over and over again

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<v Speaker 1>and expecting a different result. Right is by sitting with ourselves,

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<v Speaker 1>with each other, being in conversation and sharing what we

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<v Speaker 1>have learned from the experiences that we have had. Having

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<v Speaker 1>time to reflect is an opportunity to think back on

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<v Speaker 1>lessons learned, what you could or would have done differently,

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<v Speaker 1>and how you will carry now this new knowledge into

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<v Speaker 1>the future. And what I realize on this week of

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<v Speaker 1>this four year anniversary of the World Health Organization announcing

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<v Speaker 1>that COVID nineteen was a pandemic and following that the

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<v Speaker 1>world shutting down, is America has done with COVID what

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<v Speaker 1>it's always done with points of trauma in this country

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<v Speaker 1>forget about it, bury it, and pretend it didn't exist.

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<v Speaker 1>And we wonder how we find ourselves in moments as

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<v Speaker 1>it pertains to racism in this country, why we continue

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<v Speaker 1>to repeat the same things generation after generation. And it's

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<v Speaker 1>because following the Civil War there were only twelve years

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<v Speaker 1>of thoughtful reflection and repair that was done until the

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<v Speaker 1>country once again sold out to the white racis in

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<v Speaker 1>the South, ushered in Jim Crow, and buried any bit

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<v Speaker 1>of progress that was made. Does that sound familiar because

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<v Speaker 1>it's pretty much what happened following the first black president

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<v Speaker 1>for eight years. I think back to that time and

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<v Speaker 1>it is hazy because of all of the despair and

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<v Speaker 1>hatred and lies that we have been inundated with since,

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<v Speaker 1>because the goal of white supremacists was to make sure

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<v Speaker 1>that like we never thought about possibility in the same

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<v Speaker 1>way again as it attains to our politics. And so

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<v Speaker 1>I think now as I am having my own personal

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<v Speaker 1>reflections on what has changed shifted for for in my

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<v Speaker 1>life and in our collective lives, and this lack of

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<v Speaker 1>reflection of pause that we offer ourselves one on a

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<v Speaker 1>regular basis right because we have to be productive for capitalism.

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<v Speaker 1>We got to keep producing, got to keep hustling, got

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<v Speaker 1>to keep grinding. I'll rest when I'm dead. This obsessiveness

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<v Speaker 1>around work and productivity is also a lie, and it

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<v Speaker 1>doesn't blocks us and doesn't allow us the ability to

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<v Speaker 1>have pause and reflection on where we were and where

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<v Speaker 1>we are now and where we would like to be.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is what Republicans' magism trump. Where they want

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<v Speaker 1>us to be is in a place of tiffy, right,

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<v Speaker 1>because in a place of ease, you have time to

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<v Speaker 1>think and reflect. In a place of tizzy, you're too

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<v Speaker 1>busy seeing how they are stealing from you, how they

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<v Speaker 1>are robbing you of your rights as well as your wages.

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<v Speaker 1>So I want us this week to have conversations with

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<v Speaker 1>our friends and family about how our lives are different now,

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<v Speaker 1>how our thinking is different. Now. Have those conversations with people,

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<v Speaker 1>because I don't want us to forget four years ago.

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<v Speaker 1>And this is my personal reflection because so much in

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<v Speaker 1>my life was upended four years ago. I'm riding the train.

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<v Speaker 1>It is March fifth or sixth of twenty twenty, and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm headed in to go and record this very show.

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<v Speaker 1>And I had received a phone call hours earlier from

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<v Speaker 1>my dad telling me that my mom had had a

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<v Speaker 1>major seizure. Now, my mother, my mother has epilepsy, but

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<v Speaker 1>has been medicated for majority of my entire life so

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<v Speaker 1>that she has normal brain waves and doesn't have epileptic episodes.

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<v Speaker 1>So when he's calling me to tell me that my

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<v Speaker 1>mother had had a major seizure, I'm like what, And

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<v Speaker 1>then he says, they found something. There's a math in

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<v Speaker 1>our brain and they think it's a tumor. It was

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<v Speaker 1>as if every single thing just went into just slow well,

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<v Speaker 1>the sounds I couldn't hear, I couldn't see, like it

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<v Speaker 1>just went dark for me. But I had a show

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<v Speaker 1>to produce, a show to do, so I head into

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<v Speaker 1>the city and by the time I had reached the studio,

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<v Speaker 1>I couldn't do it. I was an absolute mess. So

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<v Speaker 1>I ended up leaving and I had it out to

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<v Speaker 1>Long Island. What would happen over the next several the

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<v Speaker 1>next week or so, because everything happened so quickly, I'd

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<v Speaker 1>also left my marriage and had moved out on my

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<v Speaker 1>own in January of twenty twenty. So it is now

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<v Speaker 1>March and I'm two months living on my own and

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<v Speaker 1>am now dealing with the fact that my mother has

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<v Speaker 1>a brain tumor. And in that time, this mysterious virus

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<v Speaker 1>that you were hearing about on the news, one person

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<v Speaker 1>has it, then ten forty one hundred thousands, and the

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<v Speaker 1>numbers just keep ticking up. But I'm not really paying

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<v Speaker 1>attention because my whole world is being broken apart by

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<v Speaker 1>the news that my mother has to undergo brain surgery

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<v Speaker 1>in a matter of days. When does that brain surgery

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<v Speaker 1>take place? March eleventh, twenty twenty. Let me just give

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<v Speaker 1>a moment of gratitude and praise to the universe that

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<v Speaker 1>my mother was able to get in and out of

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<v Speaker 1>surgery successfully before hospitals shut down. So I had been

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<v Speaker 1>with her, sleeping in the hospital every single night until

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<v Speaker 1>I left the hospital on March twelfth to go home

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<v Speaker 1>and shower, to come back and be told that I

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<v Speaker 1>can't enter the hospital, and I lost it on the

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<v Speaker 1>security guard because my mother is upstairs recovering from brain surgery,

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<v Speaker 1>and you're telling me this place that I had been

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<v Speaker 1>sleeping in every night for the past week and a

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<v Speaker 1>half or whatever it was, because time was a blur

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<v Speaker 1>that I can't return to. Thank God, my mother was

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<v Speaker 1>a relief. And what would transpire over the next several

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<v Speaker 1>months was my sister flying in from Vietnam, Vietnam shutting

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<v Speaker 1>down in her not being able to go back, me

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<v Speaker 1>leaving my home in Brooklyn, and my family being under

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<v Speaker 1>one roof for the first time since I'd been in

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<v Speaker 1>high school, since I'd left for college. And while there

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<v Speaker 1>are so many horrific things that occurred, the loss of life,

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<v Speaker 1>the law, loss of society, the loss of connectedness, I

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<v Speaker 1>can't express enough the gratitude that I have for the

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<v Speaker 1>fact that while my mother was healing and while I

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<v Speaker 1>was going through heartbreak, that my family was able to

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<v Speaker 1>be together. It was the greatest gift. And I can

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<v Speaker 1>say that understanding that I'm saying it from a place

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<v Speaker 1>of privilege. My father lost his mother to COVID before

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<v Speaker 1>there was a vaccine. She caught it and within three

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<v Speaker 1>weeks she was gone. So I'm not without the understanding

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<v Speaker 1>of loss, But in that loss, I can also be

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<v Speaker 1>so grateful for the time that I was given, that

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<v Speaker 1>my family was given because we were able to work

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<v Speaker 1>from home. My mother was just able to rest and

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<v Speaker 1>heal knowing that her world, her family, was right in

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<v Speaker 1>front of her. So while the world was falling apart

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<v Speaker 1>around us, while we had a fucking president that was

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<v Speaker 1>telling people to inject bleach, to not do the basic

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<v Speaker 1>thing of caring for your fucking neighbors, while we watched

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<v Speaker 1>parking lots being turned into hospitals, food lines wrapped around

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<v Speaker 1>for miles in places that I didn't even know had

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<v Speaker 1>food begs, because that's how unstable our society had become.

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<v Speaker 1>That's how big the economic disparities had become. People were

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<v Speaker 1>being laid off. My aunt was laid off, my younger

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<v Speaker 1>cousin was laid off. And I think about this now,

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<v Speaker 1>four years later, what would it have been like if

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<v Speaker 1>we had had an actual leader? How much stronger would

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<v Speaker 1>America have come out of this knowing that we could

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<v Speaker 1>rely on our neighbors, that the masks that we were

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<v Speaker 1>wearing weren't just about protecting ourselves, but they were about

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<v Speaker 1>protecting the people that we love. Four years later, we

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<v Speaker 1>have people that believe that COVID was made up. Tell

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<v Speaker 1>that to the people that have empty tables, empty chairs

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<v Speaker 1>where loved ones used to sit. Tell that to the

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<v Speaker 1>people who have blocked out of their memory in some neighborhoods.

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<v Speaker 1>This smells because remember, there wasn't enough room in the morgues,

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<v Speaker 1>so we were housing bodies in refrigerated trucks. That people

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<v Speaker 1>couldn't gather for funerals to say goodbye to their loved ones,

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<v Speaker 1>So they held funerals over zoom. Folks, it is not

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<v Speaker 1>just about remembering the washing of cardboard and just the

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<v Speaker 1>shortage of toilet paper because people were so fucking greedy, right,

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<v Speaker 1>and gouging of prices, But there was so much humanity,

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<v Speaker 1>and had we had a leader that was actually steeped

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<v Speaker 1>in empathy and compassion and was human himself, how hard

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<v Speaker 1>COVID was would have been made easier knowing that someone cared.

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<v Speaker 1>I can remember sitting with my family every day and

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<v Speaker 1>I'm going to say something controversial now, knowing what we know,

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<v Speaker 1>But if not for the governor of New York at

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<v Speaker 1>that time, just those press conferences and the regular check

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<v Speaker 1>ins and the reminder to care for one another, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't care at this moment. I just remember, like at

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<v Speaker 1>this moment, what we learned after the fact. But I'm

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<v Speaker 1>talking about how I felt in the moment that governor

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<v Speaker 1>did what the President of the United States was not doing.

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<v Speaker 1>There were people that were in other states. He was

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<v Speaker 1>being broadcasted around the country because Donald Trump was failing us.

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<v Speaker 1>I don't want to forget this moment that forever changed

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<v Speaker 1>our lives, forever changed the way that we work, the

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<v Speaker 1>way that we connect, the groundedness that we once had.

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<v Speaker 1>That stuff like a global health pandemic you know happens

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<v Speaker 1>before vaccines in during the black plague, or happens in

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<v Speaker 1>the movies, like an outbreak and contagion. What we lived

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<v Speaker 1>through for those of us who did make it is extraordinary,

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<v Speaker 1>and we do those that did not make it, or

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<v Speaker 1>those that are forever traumatized, those that are living with

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<v Speaker 1>long COVID, we do them a disservice by not honoring

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<v Speaker 1>their memory and honoring the way that our lives have

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<v Speaker 1>been changed. What we experienced and continue to experience because

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<v Speaker 1>of that time matters. It matters that we talk about it.

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<v Speaker 1>It matters that we go back and look at photographs

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<v Speaker 1>and videos. It matters that we remember who were in

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<v Speaker 1>our pods and why we chose the pods that we did.

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<v Speaker 1>Are we still talking to those people and connecting with

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<v Speaker 1>those people? Are we asking each other how we really are?

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<v Speaker 1>Because four years in this country have been so fucking

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<v Speaker 1>stressful and crazy. But if you're listening to this and

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<v Speaker 1>watching this video, you are still here and that is

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<v Speaker 1>worth honoring, That is worth giving gratitude for. If you

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<v Speaker 1>are a prayerful person, that is worth a prayer, a meditation,

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<v Speaker 1>a moment of silence. If Donald Trump and MAGA had

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<v Speaker 1>not politicized to a sickening degree this catastrophic time in

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<v Speaker 1>our lives, we would have memoriams, we would have a

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<v Speaker 1>day of remembrance. We would be reflecting because over a

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<v Speaker 1>million people lost their lives, and the president at the time,

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<v Speaker 1>whose body count was at half a million by the

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<v Speaker 1>time he left office, knowing that it was airborne, knowing

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<v Speaker 1>how fucking dangerous it was back in December twenty nineteen,

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<v Speaker 1>but did nothing but exacerbate a crisis. Is a fucking

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<v Speaker 1>murderer on top of everything else he's already been charged

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<v Speaker 1>with because he'll never be charged for the deaths regarding COVID,

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<v Speaker 1>we don't even talk about it. As it was his

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<v Speaker 1>responsibility to keep American safe. He had people turn on science,

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<v Speaker 1>on doctors, People were protesting at hospitals. The very people

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<v Speaker 1>who were risking their lives, from the doctors to the nurses,

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<v Speaker 1>to the administrator, to the janitors to the lunch workers,

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<v Speaker 1>were risking their lives and being protested against because of

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump. So when you think be your friends that

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<v Speaker 1>you can't possibly stomach voting for Biden. I want you

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<v Speaker 1>to remember where we were four years ago, and remember

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<v Speaker 1>where we could be right now. Had we not given

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump an inch when he came down that fucking escalator,

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<v Speaker 1>and had we told him to go to Hell, which

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<v Speaker 1>is exactly where he fucking belongs, how different our lives

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<v Speaker 1>would be now without the stain, the virus of Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is that still has this country in its grips, the

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<v Speaker 1>world in its grips. But I ask you this week

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<v Speaker 1>to reflect, to journal, to think, to walk, to be

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<v Speaker 1>in conversation with those that you love about what they

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<v Speaker 1>remember about this time, how COVID changed our lives, Remember

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<v Speaker 1>the good as well as the bad, and remember to

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<v Speaker 1>hold space for one another because community is the most

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<v Speaker 1>important thing that we lost, that we reshaped, that we

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<v Speaker 1>reimagined and are still trying to regain. That is it

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<v Speaker 1>for me today, Dear friends, on woke a f as

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<v Speaker 1>always Power to the people and to all the people. Power,

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<v Speaker 1>Get woke and stay woke as fuck.