And the lack of Affordable Housing for a living minimum wage gave many people new choice. Thats been a problem with the city knows turn limits on and told me stay away oh miss. The food if there is no answer because you have the required resource the most vulnerable are abandoned on the streets to become the invisible cops. Greetings and salutations here in the United States as we get deeper and deeper into the fight against the cold with 19 we are seeing more and more news stories and expertly crafted publicity campaigns calling attention to the hundreds of thousands of doctors nurses and other medical workers and support staff who are quite literally on the front lines fighting to treat and save the lives of the more than 800000 u. S. Citizens or infected by this virus. They deserve our thanks our praise and our support new York Governor Andrew Cuomo aptly referred to these workers as quote the troops fighting this battle for us. But while the praise and heartfelt thanks are unquestionably appreciated many in the field are starting to wonder if our paul politicians thanks im sure leaving will amount to nothing more than the just words and pageantry much in the same way that those politicians treat our military veterans all parade and no real help or substance new york position Elizabeth May recently pointed out a very sobering problem for healthcare workers writing for the intercept that she observed Public Health public expressions of support for Health Professionals are meaningful but they are also insufficient to drown out the deafening silence from capitol hill in response to mounting cries for relief measures chief among them educational Debt Forgiveness you see because we here in the u. S. Do not consider their good work as vital to the infrastructure of our country unlike they do and say the United Kingdom and other nations around the world quite frankly it costs an arm and a leg to become a doctor or nurse here in the United States of america and shar goes on to point out almost 70 percent of all nurses who who staff the truest front line in this pandemic graduate from training with 40 to 150000 dollars in debt in fact according to shaws estimations at recoated 1000 patient in the hospital today here in the us is more than likely being cared for by a group of workers carrying over 1000000. 00 in student debt to their names that is that that that is simply unconscionable and my friends that means we had better start watching the office. If you will. On a city street you want to. Listen to what she sees as this joyce state. Rice grace suggests least systemic deception is the late show which. Brings joy as. Well ramona watching. Her and i want i mean this is a girl weve seen kind of coded 19 this pandemic stripped away and exposed a lot of the problems that we have in our culture and i think this is another one of those things that got an exposed here in the u. S. Is the fact that youve got doctors and nurses people who are putting their lives on the line their expertise to approach to fight this thing and theyre doing it saddled under you know 4250000 and upwards of that in debt theyre not even get out of bed and i think this is an extremely important thing to highlight because your average your average citizen isnt really thinking about when they think of doctors may think about nurses they see these as highly professional careers these arent for the most part hourly positions they dont think of them as low wage jobs they think of this is something that people are getting back from even though they they paid heavily into their education i think that articles like the one you mentioned showcase and were seeing a lot more of those come out and nurses and doctors speaking out themselves about why the not only why the industry is losing a lot of people but also why you have fewer people actually coming down the pipeline because if you know that youre going to be saddled with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt youre going to be facing something that could could be another pandemic who knows and youre putting your own life on the line every single day what do you do when. Give me a parent to your children everyone is going to get saddled with this debt when you cant pay it back thats very true thats very true in fact and we talk about frontline the c. D. C. Right now estimates the roughly 10000 u. S. Healthcare workers reported having coded 927 have died from it as of mid april just in the United States but they strongly say that the actual figures for that number may actually be even higher than that but those are just the low end estimates its really i mean it it blows my mind when you think about it like other countries around the world they actually some of them even pay people to go to Nursing School they actually pay they cover that costs you go to the u. K. You can go to Nursing School you can go to they cover the cost you know why it to me and it just irks me so much that we are such a. We just dont care about people in this country thats what it says to me its like we we dont know what will you get arent you going to go out and become a doctor on your own you know even going to do a job thats going to help people its just its not i dont think people recognize the amount of attention that needs to be paid to this because i know when i was in undergrad there were i went with nursing students students who would eventually become doctors they worked 2 jobs on top of their externship swithin nursing facilities across the country so they were people who knew the debt load when they got out the majority of them dont come from middle class or even wealthy families so they know that this is going to be a task for them but theyre still willing to jump into this profession right now over 60 percent of the nurses that were seeing in new york city and other cities across the country that have been called in or retired nurse and those retired nurses are still paying back the debt that they had 2030 plus years ago when they actually got their degree and i think you broke the good point too is that its not saying that not all doctors are a lot of doctors theres a lot of doctors down the line especially in Plastic Surgery no who are swimming and swimming in money you know that but thats when you look at the Health Care System as a whole you cant just focus on like the one small subject of like surgeons and people like that who make money and make money because of the expertise of what they do. You know that theyre able to pay off that debt real quick i mean the average doctors are saddled with after medical school this is doctors too in 2001200000 dollars now imagine your student loan that youre trying to pay off its 3040. 00 maybe 50000. 00 a magine 200000. 00 hanging over your head thats brutal with the Interest Rates going up if. Its blue its also really painstaking process because these are the people who they expect to go in this next generation of nurses and doctors and its not going to happen in the majority of places across this country there are in rural areas clinicians where you might only have 3 to serve an entire city or to serve an entire county and one of those reasons is because they simply cannot. Or the debt load to be able to save their communities from potentially deadly things i mean i think that we should start truthfully if we can give you know universal lifting of Public School university you know Higher Education to the people at least start focusing on key groups at least start there and a lot of people are there was actually 500000 people signed move on petition to include forgiving Student Loan Debt for Health Care Providers and even the American Medical Association the countrys largest association of physicians they actually wrote a letter to congress in april 7th asking for federal student loan Debt Forgiveness specifically to Health Care Workers and things like that so hopefully they see in that letter they said for those residents in early graduate medical students with that average is 200000. 00 we urge congress to provide at least 20000. 00 a bible student loan forgiveness 420000 jewish and we will see about holds. Desperate times call for Desperate Measures who would have guessed a police union known for its brutality racism and Human Rights Violations would team up with the nations largest Civil LibertiesAdvocacy Organization the american Civil Liberties union a. C. L. U. With the support of the paternal order of police is calling on chicago mayor louis likely to end the city wide checkpoints put in place due to the coronavirus pandemic Chicago Police set up checkpoints across the city to enforce statewide stay at home borders officers stationed in multiple districts would stop drivers and hand out flyers to people reminding them to not make unnecessary trips outside of their homes according to the Chicago Tribune though this Public Health p. S. A. In action was well intentioned it didnt take long before community and civil Rights Groups surrounded and sounded the alarm while c. P. D. Spokespeople argue that the increased Police Presence is part of a Public Health agenda civil Rights Groups say checkpoints put black and brown people at risk for increased exposure to cope with 19 right now in chicago 70 percent of the part of the virus. Are black according to american Civil Liberties spokesperson during this pandemic Law Enforcement should be looking to reduce contacts not increase them in forcing 2 dozen checkpoints each day across the city creates a risk of further spreading the coronavirus to members of the c. P. D. And to residents he went on to express his concerns over Public Health being used as a cover for race based policing tactics the return order of police agree with the a. C. L. U. Reinforcing the importance of needlessly exposing officers to covert 90. Funny how the fop an organization that just a few months ago argued not only in support of Police Brutality but against payouts to the families of those murdered by the cops now cares about human life. Mayor lightfoot has some tough decisions to make will she listen to the a. C. L. U. And c. P. D. Or keep moving forward with heavy handed Public Health policies. Thats a tough question put across her desk and honestly i look at it like this like i understand you shouldnt dont put the police and danger nor poor other people in danger look if people are stupid enough they want to get in a big big old group and stand in their neighborhood and hold hands and call for each other or whatever you know. Theyre going to do that you know you cant stop that same thing where protests have been i want to meet on one of the Governors Mansion and i want to go to the capitol and drive their cars around in a circle theyre going to do that these stand homeowners rip remember this isnt martial law. They cant arrest you for leaving your home at least they shouldnt be however its kind of the uniform thing of the government saying no please stay at home to keep safe you dont need to be putting cops in harms way and exacerbating the tensions that are already existing in society through these coach art forms exactly and the funny thing about this is for anybody whos been on social media over the past few weeks there been means upon means a lawyer like light Laurie Lightfoot the mayor of chicago popping up in your fridge telling you dont go there new there in parks and other recreational places soon as you you know open your door and people thought it was funny it was a lighthearted way to show that shes really trying to make sure that the city is safe specifically africanamerican communities within the city because they have such a large proportion of people who are actually getting sick and dying for corona from coronavirus but the bigger question for me happens to be just looking at these checkpoints across the city where the checkpoints are in many cases these are places that had elevated by less levels already so you have individuals who are saying ok well this is just added policing that is just unnecessary but youre also having police argue that we want to protect ourselves we dont want to get sick however these are the same police who will stop you for nonsensical things that have nothing to do with the home borders at all you know theyre still in forcing various regulations for petty crime. And things like that and they somehow dont think kobe 19 is an issue they will theyve got to keep theyve got to keep the money machine go and theyve got to keep to could do ticketing you and all that and getting that like an extra layer of hidden tax of just being a poor person in this country especially poor person the colors of the hey you know what were going to get you for that money that we normally get now that you have to stay indoors will that lou thats our loss of income for us you know him its sad to see that its sad too that its like look at youre going to do checkpoints do them universally across the board if youre going to go to that extent like then make it universal dont just focus on the neighborhoods that you want to call bad neighborhoods or those neighborhoods that you already have a magnifying glass on and are you know crushing those people spirit because they do feel like they live in a police state that didnt do that the other piece is that the. Better off the fraternal order of police and the a. C. L. U. In chicago specifically dont have the best relationship i dont know they have a long history of back and forth wrangling and wrangling they feel you have filed multiple lawsuits and one against the city of chicago and the Chicago Police department specifically around Police Brutality but also around illegal surveillance and several other things and as of just last year so its interesting to see them now come together on this that and that is the oddest couple of couples its amazing i mean thats so you know that its got to be like when you see the a. C. L. U. And the paternal or Police Actually say you know what were going to hold hands on this one then you know like ok them maybe as a city you cross the line you know and i think its important for other cities around the country and around the world to kind of look at this and say ok at what point is is us telling pretty people to stay home and be safe when does it cross the line and when does it then justify the protests that we saw earlier this week and theres abuse of those classic things that we as a society have to be talking about and have to be looking at at what point does staying safe cross the line i will always side on the right of human life i would say you know what staying safe number one priority same time is still going to keep people credible so they do not abuse your rights in that process absolutely you know it is that but yeah never. When i would see that and what that line look like because we talked about that i think thats a very important things to know between liberty and Public Health because thats something that is something that is being grappled with right now even outside of chicago chicago is in the spotlight because of some what many would consider overzealous but what is that line that is that is the biggest important question of the day good question good question are as we go to break remember that you can also start watching the hawks on demand to the brand new portable t. V. App available on smartphones through google play on the Apple App Store by searching simply portable t. V. Or stream us to your t. V. By downloading the affordable t. V. App on the i you guessed it apple t. V. Or online at portable dot t. V. 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