Death, Sex & Money - Drop Off: A 24-Hour Daycare's Struggle To Stay Open
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🗓️ 2 September 2020
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"I have to keep coming until we've exhausted everything, and we definitely have to shut the door."
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| 0:00.0 | How am I going to go to work? |
| 0:02.0 | How am I going to care for my son? |
| 0:04.8 | And I have no family here. |
| 0:06.7 | So I'm pretty much in this alone. |
| 0:09.4 | What am I going to do? |
| 0:10.5 | I don't know. |
| 0:14.4 | This is death, sex, and money. |
| 0:17.9 | The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more. |
| 0:24.9 | I'm Anna Sail. |
| 0:34.4 | After three months at her home in Pittsburgh this spring, |
| 0:41.5 | Kara Moody got called back to her waitressing job on June 15th. |
| 0:43.8 | You know, your job asks you to go back to work. |
| 0:44.9 | You don't have a choice. |
| 0:46.6 | You have to say yes, your job. |
| 0:48.8 | Were you comfortable going back to work? |
| 0:51.0 | Absolutely not. No way. |
| 0:53.1 | I'm still not comfortable going back to work. |
| 1:04.1 | I'm like serving people who have potential COVID positive muscles and fries just so they can come out to eat and feel some sort of normalcy. So it is scary. |
| 1:10.5 | Kara lives with her five-year-old son, Colton. I could hear him in the background playing with his Legos as we talked. |
| 1:12.4 | Mom. Yes, Colton. |
| 1:20.7 | Kara is a single mom, so when the restaurant where she's worked for the past 13 years reopened, |
| 1:25.5 | she needed childcare. She sent her son back to the daycare where he went before the pandemic. |
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