How to Learn From a Plague

Still Processing

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🗓️ 16 April 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Activists stood up against the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 1990s, but the tools they used to make themselves heard are unavailable during our coronavirus pandemic. Still, many of that era’s strategies and warning signs seem alarmingly relevant now. Discussed this week:“How to Survive a Plague” (directed by David France, 2012)ACT UP New York “How ACT UP Remade Political Organizing in America” (David France, The New York Times, April, 2020)“‘A Tragedy Is Unfolding’: Inside New York’s Virus Epicenter” (Annie Correal, Andrew Jacobs and Ryan Christopher Jones, The New York Times, April, 2020)“America’s Hidden H.I.V. Epidemic” (Linda Villarosa, The New York Times, June, 2017)“Amazon’s Whole Foods to Cut Medical Benefits for Part-Timers” (Spencer Soper, Bloomberg, September, 2019)

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0:00.0	Can I tell you Jenna about my Aunt Jerry?
0:04.6	Please, I would love to hear more.
0:07.3	Well, you know that she died a couple weeks ago of COVID-19.
0:13.8	She was in a nursing home for a while, and like many people who are nursing homes right now,
0:19.2	it is not the greatest place to be with this disease out there.
0:23.6	And she was one of the unfortunate people who got it.
0:28.5	She was 90 years old, and her life was good.
0:33.1	It was very good.
0:35.0	Aunt Jerry was so full of life and so full of energy and so funny.
0:43.2	And she loved having people around her.
0:48.5	Let me, okay, let me just ask you a question.
0:51.1	Like what is the thing where like you don't like Thanksgiving,
0:54.5	but you will put up with it because there's this one thing you get to eat every year.
0:58.9	What is it?
1:00.2	100% of stuffing.
1:03.5	Aunt Jerry was the stuffing on your Thanksgiving plate.
1:07.4	My personal favorite thing is macaroni and cheese with cranberry sauce.
1:12.4	My Aunt Jerry was the mac and cheese and the cranberry sauce.
1:16.2	She was the person who whenever my family got together, even if I didn't even think about
1:21.5	her being there, the minute I get in the house, Aunt Jerry is there and I'm happy.
1:28.0	She told funny stories.
1:31.8	She was a great side person in somebody else's story.
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