And I'm going to Don't come on here.

Don't come on here. So can you just start by introducing yourself where you're calling from and what you do for a living.

Sure. I'm Jean Ross, co-president of National Nurses United. I've been a registered nurse for over 40 years and I live in

Bloomington which is a suburb of Minneapolis in Minnesota.

Great and National Nurses United has been at the forefront of really advocating for some progressive and basically ethical responses to the particular COVID pandemic that we're facing, but also, you know, the nurses and caregivers throughout the world have been at the forefront of what many of us would consider the working class struggle, especially in the United States and advocating for things such as universal health care so in your

estimation you know what would a or how would a universal health care system help

prevent the current kind of spread of COVID-19

that we're currently experiencing?

Oh, in so many ways.

In fact, we've of course figured out and other people have pointed out to us how this

pandemic has shown the flaws in our system that we've been talking about for so so long.

For one thing, you need to have everybody covered because regardless of your ideology,

people spread disease.

If you can't come in and get health care, if you sit home

when something like this is going on,

you're going to infect other people.

This has been true of what's going on now with a pandemic, it was true of TB,

anything else you want to mention.

Also, when you are faced with protecting people who run the health care

system who who take care of patients, nurses, and doctors and other health care

workers, they need to be protected so they can take care of these patients, but also so they don't become ill themselves and put even a bigger burden on our system, if you can call it a system.

This country has been closing down hospitals left and right, especially in rural areas, all under the guys of, we have to make a bigger and bigger profit.

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