The most trying things of 2020 by the end of march the country hit the hardest was the United States in new york city in particular. My friend maria lives in new york ive asked for its record a bit of her life during the pandemic. Hi my name is maria out and she. Talking to you. Which is a global epicenter of. Atomic so this is this is my 15 month old son whos playing by himself as are most of the other kids in the park and normally there wouldnt be a single patch of grass available to sit on the little erie out here so quarantining new york is a little bizarre because theres theres like 2 worlds right so were in a world where we feel very isolated were working from home but were still. Working and then theres this like other part of new york that we dont see when you look at like the map of how hope it is living some of the wealthier neighborhoods its been far more contained and the numbers are much lower than some of the poorer neighborhoods its like 2 different worlds like i dont know whats going on over there talk to be honest. I got married i moved to new york 10 years ago before that i was it toronto thats where i grew up person so i got to new york its like this is the bizarre crazy bad a disgusting screech by incredible plays and you just get caught up in our problems. To work on wall street we live in park slope in brooklyn. So you go to brooklyn and you see like 5000000. 00 apartments and one block over theres like a project where its like people dont have jobs theyve been impacted badly because theres no hospitals there were fortunate that we both work in technology its very easy for us to work at home if you have a blue collar job but youve got to go and those are very blue collar neighborhoods. Just 2 days ago good family friend he passed away from kobe had he was in his sixtys and his daughter my eyes as if she was on fire i suppose she brought it home everyone got sick but with mild symptoms and he got sick and died were in a situation where. There are treatment. Patrol people are just kind of walking back and making sure that people are keeping their distance we actually wanted to get out because everywhere you look at the trajectory chart on up not lighted. Right at new york it was like a high. So we preemptively said you know what we should just get out so in the midst of planning and talking about it you know the u. S. And china are shut down the Borders Security for hoping that i will see if you hold windows to move back and forth and during that time we hope to go to toronto i think its much bigger in china in the look complicit way Like Health Care is when youre sick that matters will fall im scared of getting sick im scared of getting my son back im scared of anyone in my family getting sick. I was carried out like crying that being and right. There a sense i wake up every morning or my new day enemy great and then by the end of the day dont like to be on your back today and i feel like thats our whole i slowly closing in on their evil it. Does appear it is this is a very good as you read guggenheim spirit of god to superior to put the body in the in 18 will ya. Please dayside this is a real. After talking to maria i looked at new yorks most affected areas and just like she said they were predominantly poor neighborhoods at the top of that list was impressed me its. Wrath a bit here on parlor which is on the way to the school and their jihad barracks moving bodies. Track thats right city the city usually has been growing about 47 ads are they now every day or day of 7 or 8. Per day. Just from the virus thats why they were so inundated. By father started business in 1940 s. Answer people until. I was yours and cared whether its welfare is now was 300. 00. It was the old currency queso so was the schools of our garbage theres a number of hospitals have closed out over the years its just more difficult for d one hospital to cover the area that. Elmhurst became the focal point because right in the beginning they had 13 deaths a one day and they answer 4 or 5 days old this are just kind of exploring their family so it was like its a hospital because it was so. And they cant go into the hospital to visit them because i suppose close to families you know the person dies and nobody can survive and were at risk so its all we care its really its not me going to the hospital and thats the last i miss all of these team member die yes. But i do take photos for folks i mean ive had a few people. I dont like the liability aspect of it per se but i feel i feel she was a great source not letting anybody at you know what the general sense aries who will lead a raft like 2 or 3 people and yes stay in your car and watch the burial there so of course d that account at least an no or ours like watches have one or. The 3rd round i heard him say so theyve got a least 3 rows and its high were working with can source outside of the state because theyre just d so inundated here that you cant get a commission box so we ended march for the promised city and d the hospitals are telling folks that they have 3 or 6 days to move their uncles or they dont have a city burial so unlike anything i had to d say to my father ever seen anything quite like this ballad out i mean ive dealt with plane crashes 911 this is just every day its there in 20 families coming in that they want to help us get helpless. Im a legal how many deaths of athens certainly in our community we probably dont know 100 year olds in the last 2 weeks and we have more than 100 more to go im going to do probably almost as much work d inside for more than ideal listeria within the best we can and we have a small staff you know organise were going to round up all our. You know were exhausted. I sleep myself here at all i worry a little about my father and my uncle they say theyre going straight to the system. Theyre trying to be careful analysts many devices d my son sakhi alison yes he does yard and i have a face mask that my wife may. Not have i am a pink one and i havent added any great ones. And you want me to take the bait more but its always such high fat. I dont have time to think about 140 all this area but able to write i have a little. Research report in the am right. Since its a busy have no science. Maybe look back on this one to start. A different way. For now its just. So you just keep going. I wonder why you were in areas such disproportionately high mortality rates i restarted keesha bullis in the same area one patient 0 get on. The run you know was back in card freedom reason when there are no. Good you have to put it out. Seeing as how many. 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In everyday circumstances when you go to a hospital in new york city and probably in any other age the 1st thing they actually raised you having been a 4 or 5 different times that ive been we are we have not been able to get Health Insurance yet theyre telling you you can give your Health Insurance but if youre not working how do you know for like a 100 or 2 as knowledge journey. They dont take your case seriously when you dont have insurance because that the end of the day the hospital to look at how are they going to get countries with universal have here we will treat it or. A more prevented and level which is a lower to the hospitals evaluate based on the population how many hospitals should be there not in the ranch its focused on money we have one hospital money here are malvern and hospital and from last year they have been by an interest eric down they feel that its not making enough money so therefore its not needed all all that the only hospital in mount vernon are very overpopulated who are area i definitely do think that it has the hospitals there or are there in the areas that give them more income. And not rich i rarely in the south side i remember and im not rich thats considered or a bad area. You know where. People get shot at warners or and. I guess news and you almost become immune in you get a mirror image of the fact that ok theyre going to close down the only hospital and people use a. Status aid but i wonder when all of this is out over and were all just involved right back to business as usual. 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