El Paso’s COVID Spike Didn’t Have To Happen
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🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 25 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels. |
| 0:07.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
| 0:15.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wearing downhill. |
| 0:21.0 | On a tandem! What, mate? With a messer on the back. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, that's nice. |
| 0:26.0 | Search zero with an ace. It goes healthy business as beautiful business. |
| 0:36.0 | What's up, Facebook? How are y'all doing this evening? |
| 0:42.0 | There's this video that's been making the rounds online. |
| 0:45.0 | Recorded by a visiting nurse who's just returned home from working in a COVID ward in El Paso, Texas. |
| 0:52.0 | Yeah, I have been wearing this in 1995, right? |
| 0:56.0 | I, um, even half asleep at last night. |
| 1:00.0 | I had to sleep in this man's car like that. |
| 1:03.0 | She's broadcasting from a corner of her house, trying to maintain some kind of distance from her kids. |
| 1:10.0 | Watching feels like being inside a confessional. |
| 1:14.0 | The nurse whispers, she gets teary. |
| 1:17.0 | She actually says she spent the first hour of her six-hour drive home sobbing. |
| 1:23.0 | This last assignment was for Brad Pitt for me. |
| 1:29.0 | I have been debating on whether or not to even talk about it. |
| 1:35.0 | And then, for nearly an hour, she unloads just about everything she saw in El Paso. |
| 1:42.0 | She talks about a room full of COVID patients that doctors refused to enter. |
| 1:48.0 | She says it was called the pit. |
| 1:51.0 | One night we hit 10 cold blues and one night in one-twelve-hour shit. |
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