How Should We Memorialize COVID 19

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🗓️ 1 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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San Francisco resident Kristin Urquiza has spent the past two years advocating for a national Covid memorial for the million-plus people who died from the disease, including her father. She co-founded Marked By Covid to push for a memorial that will not only speak to our grief, but also encapsulate the conditions and decisions that led to so many deaths. Urquiza shared her journey with the podcast 99 Percent Invisible for a recent episode called, “Don’t Forget to Remember.” We’ll talk about what it means to memorialize our collective traumas and what a Covid memorial should say. Guests: Chris Colin, Bay Area-based journalist - his recent story, "Don't Forget to Remember," appeared on the podcast, 99 Percent Invisible Kristin Urquiza, co-founder, Marked by Covid - daughter of Mark Urquiza, who died from Covid June 30, 2020 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	1,172,229.
1:05.9	That's the total number of deaths that the CDC attributes to COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic,
1:11.6	and around each death there's a set of people grieving, amidst an environment where that
1:16.6	grief is not only their own, but part of a national debate. How will we memorialize this time?
1:23.6	Today we bring you the story of the San Francisco resident who lost her own father and has been trying to build a monument to all the losses.
1:31.0	How will we remember? Or maybe we won't.
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1:51.9	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. We're going to talk about how we memorialize COVID this morning.
2:03.2	The show was inspired by Chris Collins reporting for 99% Invisible about Kristen-Rkesa's fight to create a national memorial that reckons with the scale of loss of these past few years.
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