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🗓️ 30 April 2021
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| 0:00.0 | Remember that last vacation you took? |
| 0:03.0 | Or maybe that brunch you had with your friends |
| 0:04.6 | knowing that this was about to happen? |
| 0:06.6 | In Florida, the death toll surpassed 3,000 today. |
| 0:10.0 | Illinois and Ohio closing all bars |
| 0:12.6 | and restaurants beginning tonight. |
| 0:14.1 | Hospitalizations related to the coronavirus |
| 0:16.5 | are hitting a record in the US. |
| 0:18.2 | One fourth of Americans are now being ordered to stay home. |
| 0:22.7 | Oh wait, you didn't see it coming. |
| 0:25.2 | And that's just it. |
| 0:26.4 | The COVID-19 pandemic showed us |
| 0:28.1 | how a microscopic virus, no one even knew existed, |
| 0:31.4 | could upend our lives |
| 0:32.9 | and how unprepared our systems, |
| 0:34.9 | our leaders, and our society were for it. |
| 0:38.4 | In season two of American Ascited, |
| 0:40.4 | we explored every aspect of the pandemic |
| 0:42.8 | and the way it exacerbated inequities in our society. |
| 0:45.7 | What we have is a really, really long history |
| 0:48.4 | of those promises being broken |
| 0:50.6 | and the legal obligation that the United States has |
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