COVID-19 in Confinement

Reveal

The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

At a time when self-isolation is the best way to avoid the pandemic, we examine two places where people have no choice but to live with strangers: nursing homes and prisons.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.2	I'm Al Etzen.
0:11.2	Carrie Morris lives in Maryland.
0:13.6	She's a career development coach, but she's also had a second job for the past 10 years
0:18.6	as a remote caregiver for her mom Anita.
0:22.0	Carrie has been writing about their intense relationship, two strong-willed women who
0:27.3	clash a lot, but love each other deeply.
0:30.4	She wants to make it into a book, and after what's happened in the past few years, she has
0:34.9	a new title.
0:35.9	And I think I'm going to change the name to Call the Front Desk.
0:40.7	I really find using dark comedy an antidote for me.
0:47.5	Call the Front Desk.
0:48.5	It's what Carrie's mom would ask her to do.
0:51.0	It was this constant, please, you've got to call the Front Desk.
0:56.0	Please, just do me this one favor.
0:57.7	I'm so sorry, I'm so sorry.
1:00.6	Three years ago, Anita moved into an assisted living facility in Boko Ritone, Florida.
1:05.5	Whenever something was wrong, she'd typically try to get help herself.
1:08.8	But when it didn't arrive, she'd call Carrie at home in Maryland.
1:13.0	Every time I'd see my phone and the number come up, or the facility name, I thought it's
1:20.3	either she's calling me or it's a member of the staff calling me.
1:24.7	But she's in trouble.
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