![]() … In a pandemic and an emergency and something you did not create. And these are the problems that millions are facing across the country. I feel bad for my family because I feel like my medicine is consuming all the resources that we have and it’s vital. So I was just worried about even having anywhere to go with me, having my kids. You know, due to COVID-19, a lot of shelters have kind of closed down or they limited the amount of people that are allowed into the facility. ![]() You know, he was, I think, 11 years old at the time. I’m going to go crazy if I don’t go to school. This new collective grief that people are just figuring out how to name, that they are waking up going, I am crying, I don’t know why or there’s this heaviness.Īnd I will always remember that night because Jonah said to me as he was going to bed, I’m going to go crazy. And then I remember thinking, I’m not going to live. But I do remember them saying, We’re going to put you on a ventilator. And I pretty much don’t remember very much after that. LISTENER MONTAGE: So I went to the hospital. And in the same hospital, they’re showing pictures of nurses wearing trash cans for their PPE. I see that a nurse died in New York City this week. Here are a few of the stories you shared. Lost loved ones, lost learning, lost jobs, lost homes, lost trust and faith in the common enterprise that is the United States. And I am utterly grateful to you from across the nation and almost every walk of life you’ve bravely shared what you lost. And I’ve been listening to you and how you’ve been weathering this pandemic. MEGHNA CHAKRABARTI: For the past three years, I have been sitting here in this strange, quiet little glass box that is the On Point studio. He spoke with us in 2020 about turning his bar into a grocery store. Pavlos Sierros, the owner of Forgtmenot, a popular bar in New York City’s Lower East Side. He spoke with us in 2020 about life as a teacher during the pandemic. Find Erin’s GoFundMe here.Ĭhris Guerrieri, life skills teacher at Palm Avenue Exceptional Student Center in Jacksonville, Florida. We spoke with her about life during the pandemic in October 2020. We spoke with her in May 2020.Įrin Bailey, a single mom with four children. We spoke with her in January 2021 during a COVID surge in LA County.Īlexis Brown, student engagement coach for 16 to 21-year-olds for the non-profit SER Metro-Detroit. Today, On Point: Checking in with Americans we heard from during the pandemic about life now. “I just can’t stress enough how different this is than it’s ever been,” Valerie Ewald, a recently retired nurse, says. Over three years, Americans saw their lives forever changed.
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