#416: How to Support Healthcare Workers Now — Plus Urgent Suggestions for Uber Eats, Hilton, Amazon, and More

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🗓️ 21 March 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

I expect next week will be an exceptionally difficult week for many people and many cities, New York City chief among them. There are several very urgent needs.

This episode will highlight things that can be done to help healthcare workers (food, temp housing, PPE, ventilators and vent modification for higher capacity, etc.), as well as a few companies well positioned to immediately help.

I would encourage you to think of healthcare workers, alongside people working on vaccine development and drug development, as the walls of our collective city. By protecting and helping them, we protect and help ourselves and everyone around us. If they fail, we all fail. These brothers and sisters on the front lines need help now, and it cannot wait a week.

If it weren't for healthcare workers, I would be dead. If not for healthcare workers, my dad would be dead, and three uncles and two aunts would also be dead. If you are lucky enough to be healthy and reading this, you likely owe some thanks to healthcare workers. They are the (usually) invisible safety net for us all.

Thank you for listening to this one. It's important.

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0:00.0	Hello boys and girls, this is Tim Ferris and welcome to another episode of the Tim Ferris
0:07.3	Show.
0:08.3	This is going to be a sponsor-free, somewhat unusual episode.
0:13.8	And I implore you to please listen to the whole thing.
0:17.3	I have been in quarantine, self-isolation with my girlfriend and Molly, my pup, for about
0:23.2	four weeks now and have been tracking all of this very, very closely since the beginning.
0:27.5	I've also been in close contact with people working in emergency rooms, ICU, etc. in New
0:34.9	York as well as prior to that Italy and other places.
0:38.8	So I've had an year to the ground for some time.
0:41.6	I expect next week, this currently Friday, March 20th, to be an exceptionally difficult
0:48.0	week for many people and many cities, New York City chief among them.
0:53.8	And if you are lucky enough to be listening to this podcast and healthy, you likely owe
0:59.4	something to a healthcare worker.
1:02.0	If it weren't for healthcare workers, I would be dead.
1:05.0	As one example, if not for healthcare workers, my dad would have died of a heart attack.
1:11.1	At least three uncles, at least two aunts, just off the top of my head would be dead, were
1:16.2	it not for healthcare workers.
1:18.0	And much like a seat belt or an airbag, these are things, in this case, people who are
1:23.6	of incredible importance and you don't really notice them until you need them.
1:30.9	So I would encourage you to think of healthcare workers alongside people working on vaccine
1:35.9	development and drug development as the walls of this city.
1:41.4	These are the people who are most important to protect right now if we want to recover
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