WEBVTT - COVID-19 Ch 11: Modeling 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:04.680 So when the word came down that audience venues were 0:00:04.720 --> 0:00:07.960 being shut down for the foreseeable future, that was a 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.840 real blow. A big part of my job as an 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:13.360 operatic soprano, or at least that part of it that 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:17.480 I actually get paid for, is crowds, both the audience 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:20.880 and on stage with my colleagues. But now a year 0:00:20.920 --> 0:00:26.520 that looked at least eventful is suddenly just empty, ironically 0:00:26.560 --> 0:00:31.240 wiped clean by this tiny organism. Contracts have fallen through, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:35.560 and that's obviously really stressful financially, but also performing is 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.080 a big part of how I define myself, so it's 0:00:38.080 --> 0:00:41.800 not being great mentally either. What adds extra stress to 0:00:41.840 --> 0:00:45.760 this is that in any art form that requires your body, 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.800 it is by its very nature time bound. I will 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:52.920 never sound exactly like I do right now ever again. 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:56.920 And usually that is fine because it just is what 0:00:56.960 --> 0:01:01.360 it is. That's just aging. But this is an unspecified 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:04.560 period of time of not being able to do what 0:01:04.600 --> 0:01:07.720 I've trained to do for twenty years now and not 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:10.000 knowing when I'll get to do that again is a 0:01:10.040 --> 0:01:12.959 really big part of how stressful that's been. It's a 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:17.160 really scary concept that when your talent is time bound 0:01:17.400 --> 0:01:21.479 you really can't afford to waste a year. But putting 0:01:21.520 --> 0:01:23.399 all of that aside, let's just take a look at 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:28.080 basic essentials. Here in Australia, our opera companies and our 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:31.440 concerts generally move to a festival schedule. That is to say, 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:35.160 we don't really have any set groups of artists or 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.959 operas where we don't hire to a regular schema. There's 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:42.160 no operas you're guaranteed to see staged. We run off 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.720 individual contracts and the flavor of the season. What this 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:49.040 boils down to, in practicality is a system where you 0:01:49.080 --> 0:01:51.480 have heaps of variety for the audience, but no real 0:01:51.520 --> 0:01:55.680 stability for the artists who are hired specifically for each opera. 0:01:56.560 --> 0:01:59.480 One year, you might be exactly the sound everyone wants 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.880 and you get so much work that you barely go 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:05.480 a month without learning any like something new. And the 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.680 next year they want a completely different sound and you 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:10.720 get nothing. And it's not like you can change your 0:02:10.800 --> 0:02:14.079 voice to fit what they want. It's your voice. It's 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:17.839 literally part of your body, which side note is terrifying 0:02:17.919 --> 0:02:21.960 in the face of a virus, especially a respiratory virus, 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.560 because we don't have a clear idea of what each 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.800 year holds. We don't have a steady report on our earnings, 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:31.920 and that means we don't qualify for any income protection 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:36.120 that our government affords us through our welfare system. It 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:39.720 really does feel like the government just straight up does 0:02:39.760 --> 0:02:41.760 not care about us at this point, and while we 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:44.920 as Aussie artists are kind of used to that, it 0:02:44.960 --> 0:02:48.960 doesn't make it hurt any less. But there is a 0:02:49.000 --> 0:02:52.760 silver lining, and that is our art's community. We are 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:56.959 incredibly resilient and we're usually pretty positive. We pull together 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.440 and what friendships we have are really forged the fire 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.760 of adrenaline. I'm actually part of a group of artists 0:03:03.800 --> 0:03:06.320 that's dedicated to upskilling. While we're out of work, we 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:07.880 figure we may as well use the time that we 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:10.919 have Each day, one of us teaches the rest of 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.639 us a skill that we found useful or interesting from 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:17.280 different crafts to kind of channel those creative needs to 0:03:17.480 --> 0:03:20.600 mental health strategies for dealing with this weird turmoil that 0:03:20.600 --> 0:03:23.799 we've all been thrust into. It's really helped to take 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.800 the edge off the stress that comes with keeping in 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:30.040 practice without knowing what you're keeping in practice for, or 0:03:30.200 --> 0:03:33.959 if there's even anything to keep in practice for and 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.000 keeping in touch with people who are in the same 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:40.280 boat really does help reassure you that there is sure 0:03:40.600 --> 0:03:44.560 somewhere at the end of all of this. But for now, 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.560 we just will keep to ourselves. We help our communities 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:52.040 whenever we can, and you know, maybe we post some 0:03:52.160 --> 0:03:53.960 art every now and then to show people that we 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:58.400 all still have the capacity for beauty. And then we 0:03:58.640 --> 0:03:59.360 just hold on. 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:03.760 I'm a social worker in a large county in Ohio 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:07.560 working in child welfare assessments or commonly known as child 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:10.600 protective services. I am the one that goes out to 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:14.600 investigate allegations of abuse and or neglect. I've been doing 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.880 this job for about a year and a half. I'm 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:20.360 originally from Mexico City, and ironically enough, I lived through 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.720 the H one N one outbreak during my senior year 0:04:22.720 --> 0:04:25.840 of high school three weeks of vacation. Later, life went 0:04:25.880 --> 0:04:30.320 on unlike our current situation. We are technically working from 0:04:30.360 --> 0:04:33.320 home now, which means I do all my paperwork at home, 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.640 but I still have field work. My days are unpredictable. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:39.280 We never know what kind of cases we're going to 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:42.200 get ahead of time, and we either respond to cases 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.560 face to face within twenty four hours, seventy two hours 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:50.120 the same day, or in emergencies in one hour. As 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.159 you can imagine, people are not typically happy to see 0:04:53.200 --> 0:04:54.960 me knock on their door and tell them they have 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:57.359 a case open with our agency and that there is 0:04:57.400 --> 0:05:01.400 alleged maltreatment. Add to that all ready stressful situation a 0:05:01.440 --> 0:05:03.839 stranger showing up at their door asking to come into 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.680 their home during a pandemic. A lot of these homes 0:05:06.680 --> 0:05:09.640 are in areas of subsidized housing where space is limited, 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.240 making social distancing extremely difficult. It's very rare I am 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:17.440 actually able to maintain six feet of distance between people. 0:05:18.000 --> 0:05:19.840 I have to get a full tour of the home, 0:05:20.040 --> 0:05:23.680 especially when there are allegations of hazardous home conditions, so 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:26.799 interviewing people on the front porch isn't always an option. 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:29.599 In the worst case scenario where I have to remove 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:32.600 a child from a home, that child and whatever belongings 0:05:32.600 --> 0:05:35.800 they have come in my car. Sometimes I respond to 0:05:35.839 --> 0:05:39.159 hospitals and I am interviewing people in hospital rooms, where 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.359 it's also hard to maintain six feet of distance, especially 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.160 if there are providers in the room as well. I'm 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.840 supposed to ask every family before I go into their 0:05:47.880 --> 0:05:51.120 home if anyone has experienced a fever, a cough, or 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:54.760 has been exposed to COVID nineteen. However, even if they 0:05:54.800 --> 0:05:57.360 say yes, I cannot leave a child in a home 0:05:57.440 --> 0:06:00.480 until I have fully assessed the family and the home 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:03.440 and have determined that the child is safe. I've had 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:06.240 families tell me that their friend or neighbor tested positive, 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.280 and I have to continue my assessment and just hope 0:06:09.279 --> 0:06:12.440 for the best. I wear a mask, have hand sanitizer, 0:06:12.480 --> 0:06:14.880 and wash my hands as much as I can, but 0:06:14.960 --> 0:06:17.440 that's difficult when you're driving from house to house and 0:06:17.520 --> 0:06:20.520 don't have anywhere to stop. The scariest part is that 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:23.159 the number of reports of child abuse or neglect have 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:28.599 significantly decreased. Children are not interacting with mandated reporters and 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.760 disclosing what is going on at home. A lot of 0:06:31.800 --> 0:06:34.839 these children do not have access to technology and cannot 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.640 check in with their providers, even over the phone or 0:06:37.640 --> 0:06:41.200 on the internet. Four children that are in the custody 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:44.640 of the county, visitations with their parents is held over 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:48.440 video conferencing when available to both the parents and foster parents. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.479 This is less than ideal, but it's the best we 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.000 can do. While following stay at home orders and social 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:58.920 distancing guidelines. Court dates have been postponed over and over again, 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.880 and the only hearing being held are those where we 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.560 have requested emergency custody of a child who is an 0:07:04.560 --> 0:07:07.960 imminent risk of harm. This means that the cases that 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.520 are already open and trying to go through all court 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:14.080 proceedings to either reunify with their child or terminate parental 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:17.840 rights are at a standstill. These cases will remain open 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:22.480 much longer than usual. On a personal level, I've always 0:07:22.560 --> 0:07:25.920 had health anxiety and generalized anxiety, which are at peak 0:07:26.040 --> 0:07:29.200 levels since this outbreak. I have to try to set 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.600 it aside while I do my job, but it has 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.960 become increasingly difficult. We aren't hiring more people because they 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.240 have not figured out how to train people from AFAR 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:41.960 as shadowing is a huge part of training. As you 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.400 can imagine, this job has an extremely high turnover rate 0:07:45.480 --> 0:07:48.800 and we always need more people to make matters worse. 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.280 My husband has severe asthma and I'm constantly afraid I'll 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:55.400 bring the virus home to him. My coworkers and I 0:07:55.480 --> 0:07:57.720 have all accepted that we are likely going to come 0:07:57.760 --> 0:08:00.680 in contact with the virus and get sick. It's just 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:01.480 a matter of when. 0:08:03.080 --> 0:08:06.000 My name is doctor Morgan Menzie. I'm a small animal 0:08:06.080 --> 0:08:09.840 veterinarian in Houston, Texas. The clinic I currently work at 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:13.640 as a high volume general practice, meaning we see anything 0:08:13.680 --> 0:08:16.240 from routine wellness care to emergencies. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:18.560 In early February, we were. 0:08:18.440 --> 0:08:21.640 Pretty concerned about our ability to get personal protective equipment 0:08:21.800 --> 0:08:25.240 or PPE. As general practitioners, we do quite a bit 0:08:25.280 --> 0:08:29.960 of surgery, and we use gloves, masks, gowns, etc. The 0:08:30.040 --> 0:08:32.920 veterinarians and some of the veterinarian nurses at our job 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.000 began to order cloth masks in anticipation of not being 0:08:36.040 --> 0:08:39.440 able to get disposable ones, and then when COVID nineteen 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.720 hit the US pretty hard, veterinarians were called to donate 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:46.080 as much of our disposable PPE as we could to 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:48.840 the human doctors on the front lines. Of course, this 0:08:49.000 --> 0:08:51.480 was something we were happy and willing to do, but 0:08:51.559 --> 0:08:53.959 that meant we had to be very conscious about how 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.720 we were using our PPE. One other way veterinarians were 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.040 asked to help was to donate our ventilators. So our clinic, 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:05.440 it's a general practice, we don't have a ventilator, but 0:09:05.520 --> 0:09:08.079 a lot of the specialty care facilities in certain states 0:09:08.080 --> 0:09:11.800 like Colorado, New York, I think even Michigan have donated 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:13.200 their ventilators to human. 0:09:12.960 --> 0:09:14.200 Hospitals for their use. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:17.960 So we were called as a profession to try and 0:09:18.000 --> 0:09:21.000 delay elective procedures if we were able to, and that 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.480 included vaccinating pets. But I think one of the biggest 0:09:24.480 --> 0:09:27.160 debates that I've seen in our profession is what we 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:31.640 consider elective. So many of the vaccines dogs and cats receive, 0:09:31.760 --> 0:09:35.560 in my mind, are considered essential. Dogs and cats are 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:38.560 required to be vaccinated for rabies by law, and they're 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.640 required to keep this vaccine up to date. 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:42.679 The other thought was. 0:09:42.760 --> 0:09:45.400 You know, dogs in Texas are highly recommended to get 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.160 the leptosporosis vaccine every year as well. If we stopped 0:09:49.240 --> 0:09:52.160 vaccinating for this, would we see more cases of lectos 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.679 sporosis and people. Veterinarians are definitely at the front lines 0:09:55.679 --> 0:09:59.319 when it comes to keeping people safe from zoonotic diseases, 0:09:59.320 --> 0:10:01.400 and I really I can't imagine what would happen if 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.160 we had another outbreak like Raby's or lepto on top. 0:10:05.040 --> 0:10:06.160 Of this current pandemic. 0:10:08.040 --> 0:10:10.840 The biggest change for us started in the middle of March. 0:10:11.320 --> 0:10:14.560 At that time, we moved to curbsite service only. This 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:17.200 meant that the veterinary nurses would collect history for the 0:10:17.240 --> 0:10:19.520 pet over the phone from the owner, got to the 0:10:19.559 --> 0:10:22.360 parking lot, retrieved the pet from the car, and then 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:24.720 once the pets inside, I do my physical exam and 0:10:24.720 --> 0:10:26.920 then call the owner with my treatment plan and to 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:28.440 address any questions they may have. 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:30.800 At first, this was really nice. 0:10:30.840 --> 0:10:33.520 I mean, most vetinaries are introverts and engaging in small 0:10:33.559 --> 0:10:35.920 talk with clients all day was exhausting. Being able to 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:37.800 get on the phone and get to the point quickly 0:10:37.960 --> 0:10:41.040 was sort of nice. However, almost six weeks into this thing, 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:43.360 I'm realizing that the small talk really helped me to 0:10:43.400 --> 0:10:45.480 break up some of the hard conversations I had to 0:10:45.480 --> 0:10:48.480 have throughout the day. Additionally, it's hard to know if 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:51.360 the owner is understanding what I'm diagnosing in their pet 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.560 or the treatment plan for their pet over the phone. 0:10:53.880 --> 0:10:57.080 I realized so much on body language to understand my clients, 0:10:57.080 --> 0:11:00.640 and I'm sorely missing that right now. The most difficult 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:03.920 parts of all this has been euthanasias. When an owner 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.520 brings in their pet for euthanasia, I can't hug them 0:11:06.679 --> 0:11:08.920 or comfort them, and the ways that I usually would. 0:11:10.040 --> 0:11:12.400 We stand six feet away from the owner saying goodbye 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:14.600 to their pet, and deliver the drugs through a very 0:11:14.600 --> 0:11:18.040 long extension set, which makes this process much more clinical 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:18.880 than it used to be. 0:11:20.559 --> 0:11:22.840 The thing I worry about the most is. 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.960 The human doctors on our front lines that have been 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:28.760 hit the hardest. As a veterinarian, I'm accustomed to making 0:11:29.160 --> 0:11:32.839 tough decisions that could potentially lead to a pet's death. 0:11:34.200 --> 0:11:36.719 It's hard enough to lose a patient when you've done 0:11:36.840 --> 0:11:39.280 everything in your power to save them, but when your 0:11:39.320 --> 0:11:42.320 resources are low, you're overwhelmed and you have to make 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:45.040 difficult decisions about who gets a hospital bed and who 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:45.839 needs to go home. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.240 That takes a huge toll to all the doctors out there. 0:11:49.320 --> 0:11:52.400 Just know us vetinarians are rooting for you, and if 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:54.440 you need a shoulder to cry on, we're here for you. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.240 At first, it seemed so far away, something we just 0:12:00.280 --> 0:12:03.280 heard about, but that couldn't touch us. The first confirmed 0:12:03.320 --> 0:12:05.560 death was in Everett, not far from where our funeral 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:08.720 home is. I remember the day in January when we heard. 0:12:08.520 --> 0:12:09.120 Of this case. 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:12.160 As a funeral director, myself and my coworkers are very 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.640 cautious of emerging disease as we deal directly with the 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:17.320 dead and in facilities or homes of those people where 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.080 their loved ones or staff may also be infected. It 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:22.680 still didn't seem real or plausible that our daily lives 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.160 would change. This situation has blown up since that day, 0:12:26.200 --> 0:12:29.640 as you all know, as of today May first, twenty twenty, 0:12:30.160 --> 0:12:32.920 Washington has had eight hundred and one deaths from COVID. 0:12:33.600 --> 0:12:36.439 Every day we receive notification of new deaths, and as 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:38.600 we are one of the largest firms in Seattle, we 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:42.000 have received several hundred of these cases. I have completely 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:44.200 lost count of the COVID cases that are now under 0:12:44.200 --> 0:12:47.280 my purview. One of the most heartbreaking things I've witnessed 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:50.120 is not only the death toll, but the families directly 0:12:50.160 --> 0:12:53.720 impacted in many ways by this One impact comes from 0:12:53.760 --> 0:12:56.440 the risk of exposure to the disease itself to people 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.360 living with or around the person who died. When I 0:12:59.400 --> 0:13:01.480 call family who have had a loss to set up 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.560 the next steps for them, they're often grieving, but now 0:13:04.600 --> 0:13:07.360 they can't even come to meet with us. They themselves 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:09.920 are often on quarantine and must stay alone for two 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:11.640 weeks before they can even begin. 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:12.520 To process their grief. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:16.120 People need hugs and shoulders to cry on when they 0:13:16.120 --> 0:13:18.640 have a loss, and no one can offer that right now. 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:21.520 We were the ones that did that, and now, out 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:25.000 of fear for our own safety, neither can we. The 0:13:25.080 --> 0:13:28.320 second impact on these families came when the governor issued 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:31.120 the stay at home order. The original order that came 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:35.679 mid March brote out funerals or gatherings completely. Families were devastated. 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:38.880 We began to panic, not just because of the loss 0:13:38.880 --> 0:13:41.120 of the healing capacity that a funeral can bring for 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:43.800 a lot of people, but the religious aspect and belief 0:13:43.800 --> 0:13:47.320 systems that some cultures have. Some cultures have certain traditions 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:50.240 or ceremonies that must happen for a person's soul to 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:53.280 pass into the next realm. It was within a week 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.960 that the governor revised this restriction. The massive implications on 0:13:56.960 --> 0:14:00.720 people's mental health were petitioned by people in funeral homes, churches, 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.800 and the general public, and the mandate was quickly repealed. 0:14:04.480 --> 0:14:06.920 It was finally settled upon by the end of March 0:14:07.000 --> 0:14:09.080 that we would be allowed to hold a gathering that 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:13.319 was attended by immediate family only. The definition of immediate 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:16.800 family was left up to the families themselves. Some are small, 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:21.160 some are very large. Some relationships extend beyond blood, and 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:23.680 that was not something we were able to determine ourselves. 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:27.760 Things look so very different. It's not just the COVID deaths. 0:14:28.080 --> 0:14:32.960 People are still dying from suicide, murder, drug overdoses and accidents. 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.480 Those families that have been thrown into a tragic loss 0:14:36.640 --> 0:14:39.600 also have to navigate this new system of grieving without 0:14:39.600 --> 0:14:42.960 a hug, and it's been awful to watch. We are 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.960 out of PPE. We are considered second level in need 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.960 for PPE, so trying to get masks and gloves is 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.960 a challenge. We order them, they are on back order. 0:14:53.120 --> 0:14:56.000 They never arrive. We have to clean the whole facility 0:14:56.040 --> 0:14:59.440 after a funeral. The scarcity of disinfectants was rough. It's 0:14:59.480 --> 0:15:03.160 gotten better, but for a time it did not feel safe. 0:15:03.280 --> 0:15:06.360 Last week, the Seattle area funeral homes ran out of 0:15:06.360 --> 0:15:10.000 the specialty body bags we use for COVID cases. They're 0:15:10.000 --> 0:15:13.800 known as disaster pouches, and their extra protective, leak proof 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.240 and impermeable to pathogen and molecular travel. This seems to 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:20.880 be the very basic level of ppe that we are 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:25.160 no longer able to accommodate. We use now three regular 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:28.000 bags and do the best we can. Never in my 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.520 career did I think I would see the FEMA refrigerated 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:33.520 body trailers. I remember the day about two weeks ago 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.640 when I saw my first. We have two now, and 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.640 they are full at about forty bodies each, not to 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:43.960 mention our internal cooler, which holds several hundred bodies. I 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:46.760 live in a home with children and immunal compromise people. 0:15:47.480 --> 0:15:49.880 Every day I am terrified at what I might bring home. 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:53.480 The time it takes to clean and sanitize daily is unreal. 0:15:54.040 --> 0:15:56.760 The consistent stress of trying to do my job, be 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:00.000 a mother and wife, and keep myself protected is immense. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.280 I cry or nearly cry every day, either on my 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.040 way to work or on the way home. I cannot 0:16:07.040 --> 0:16:10.680 express in words how exhausted and emotionally drained my coworkers 0:16:10.720 --> 0:16:13.720 and I am. I know we all love what we 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:17.320 do and helping people navigate the worst day of someone's life, 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:19.840 but we all need this to be over as soon 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:24.680 as possible. I love helping families, making a grieving widow smile, 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:29.320 facilitating a chance to say goodbye. I feel essential. People 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.560 need me. I stand in the back at funeral services 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:35.760 for immediate family, where families take off their masks to 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:38.800 hug and cry on each other's shoulders. That's what people 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.400 do at funerals. Little comfort is found from a gaze 0:16:42.520 --> 0:17:24.720 from a masked face at six feet away. 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:34.480 Wow. Wow, those first hand accounts like wow. 0:17:34.920 --> 0:17:40.440 Just so so phenomenal. Thank you everyone for sending those in. 0:17:40.600 --> 0:17:42.880 We really appreciate every one of you that has taken 0:17:42.880 --> 0:17:44.960 the time to fill out the form and to send 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.520 us your stories there. It's incredible to get to hear 0:17:47.560 --> 0:17:50.320 stories from so many different people right now. 0:17:50.560 --> 0:17:53.920 Yeah, it really is. Thank you, Thank you, We very 0:17:53.960 --> 0:17:55.400 much appreciate it. 0:17:56.160 --> 0:17:56.360 Hi. 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:00.760 I'm Aaron Welsh and I'm Arin Oman Updyke and this 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:01.879 podcast will kill you. 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:06.160 Welcome to the eleventh episode eleven. 0:18:06.640 --> 0:18:08.840 I can't believe it eleven either. 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:09.640 I'm shocked. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:12.760 I don't know how we've done this. Quite honestly, I 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.400 don't know. It's all a blur, Aaron, It's all a blur. 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.640 This is our Anatomy of a Pandemic series on COVID nineteen. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:23.280 This week, we're diving into a topic that has generated 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:28.080 a ton of headlines and has influenced decisions that have 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:33.120 impacted billions of people around the world. That is math 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.080 modeling of infectious disease. 0:18:36.200 --> 0:18:37.200 Let's hear it from math. 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:41.080 Clap clap clap for math. This might be the one 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:43.000 episode I convinced my brother to listen to. 0:18:46.520 --> 0:18:49.840 How long will this pandemic go on? I don't know 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:51.520 how bad is it going to get? 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:52.320 Great question? 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:53.960 How can we slow it down? 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:55.119 Would love to know that? 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:59.359 And how can we even begin to address those questions? 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:03.520 Let me guess the answer at least for that question 0:19:04.520 --> 0:19:09.280 is math Math Surprise a rise. In this episode, we 0:19:09.359 --> 0:19:13.119 want to lay a groundwork for understanding what mathematical models 0:19:13.200 --> 0:19:16.240 of infectious disease actually look like, where they get the 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:19.960 data that they use, what current models of COVID nineteen 0:19:20.040 --> 0:19:23.560 are being used for, and most importantly, how we can 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:26.360 actually evaluate these headline making models. 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:27.879 That is very important. 0:19:28.200 --> 0:19:33.440 Yeah, it's I'm very excited. And to walk us through 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.480 the wonderful world of math models is doctor Mike Famulari, 0:19:37.920 --> 0:19:41.879 Senior research scientist at the Institute for Disease Modeling. He 0:19:42.040 --> 0:19:47.159 did such a fantastic job of breaking down these complex 0:19:47.200 --> 0:19:51.280 topics and We're so very excited to share his interview 0:19:51.440 --> 0:19:51.760 with you. 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:56.240 But before we do that, it's quarantin any time. 0:19:56.640 --> 0:19:58.200 Oh yeah, quarantiny time. 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:01.160 Baby, what are we doing today? 0:20:01.359 --> 0:20:01.560 Erin? 0:20:01.880 --> 0:20:07.240 Oh, you know, Quarantini eleven correspondingly, of course makes sense. 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.160 But what's in quarantine eleven? That's what we really want to. 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:15.240 Know, the key question. It's basically a Manhattan I approve. 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:20.879 I mean, listen, it's quarantine times. Okay, We're not going 0:20:20.960 --> 0:20:22.280 to get too fancy. 0:20:22.240 --> 0:20:26.840 Nah na na, and you know it's delicious, it's simple. 0:20:27.600 --> 0:20:30.600 We will post the full recipe for this quarantiny and 0:20:30.800 --> 0:20:34.199 our non alcoholic plusy Berta on our website and all 0:20:34.240 --> 0:20:36.440 of our social media channels, so you can figure out 0:20:36.440 --> 0:20:39.960 how we make a Manhattan non alcoholic if you follow us. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:46.119 Okay, now that that's out of the way, we do 0:20:46.240 --> 0:20:48.600 still have a few more pieces of business to tend to. 0:20:49.560 --> 0:20:52.760 We received some feedback from our last episode in this series, 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:56.119 which was on education, and that episode primarily focused on 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:59.000 the impact that COVID nineteen has had on schools in 0:20:59.040 --> 0:21:01.679 the US, and we wanted to share a few of 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:02.720 these responses with you. 0:21:03.800 --> 0:21:06.320 The first email excerpt comes from someone who wanted to 0:21:06.359 --> 0:21:09.120 clarify a point of discussion in the education episode where 0:21:09.119 --> 0:21:13.160 we talked about equity in schools, particularly highlighting the long 0:21:13.280 --> 0:21:17.000 history of racism and disparity in education for Native Americans 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:21.600 in this country. So I'll read you part of that email. 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:25.400 Near the beginning of the interview, the substantial and historically 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.560 entrenched disparities in public education in our country were casually dismissed. 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:32.800 As a Native American whose mother struggled with boarding school 0:21:32.800 --> 0:21:35.840 abuse and the traumatic scars of education racism for most 0:21:35.840 --> 0:21:39.440 of her life, this was distressing to hear. Alarming structural 0:21:39.520 --> 0:21:43.800 disparities exist at all levels of public school education for poor, Black, 0:21:44.160 --> 0:21:49.919 LATINX and Native American students in both urban and rural contexts. Furthermore, 0:21:50.040 --> 0:21:53.080 data about these disparities have been collected and widely reported 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:56.080 on for more than one hundred and twenty years since W. E. B. 0:21:56.240 --> 0:21:59.000 Du Bois began publishing his sociological work at the turn 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:00.560 of the twentieth century. 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:06.800 Yes, yep, great, excellent points. Thank you for sending us 0:22:06.840 --> 0:22:10.240 that email. And then the second email comes from a 0:22:10.280 --> 0:22:13.359 Finnish journalist who wanted to provide a more nuanced picture 0:22:13.440 --> 0:22:17.439