What Next - Our Year: 1 Out of 530,000
Slate News
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4.5 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 March 2021
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to the past year, we’ve all lost something -- or someone. Time with friends and family. A job. A loved one. But when we think about the 530,000 people in the U.S. who died because of COVID-19, the magnitude makes it hard to see the individuals. Today, we remember one loss, out of many.
Guests: Alicia Montgomery, executive producer of podcasts at Slate, and her cousin, Yvonne Tilghman.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi. |
| 0:04.6 | Hey, Mary. |
| 0:05.4 | Hi. |
| 0:06.5 | Hey, Mary. |
| 0:07.2 | It's Scott. |
| 0:09.7 | This past year has been a lot of things for all of us. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm calling into, you know, what I lost during COVID this year. |
| 0:18.5 | But when I think about what we all have in common, it's loss. We all lost something during this year. But when I think about what we all have in common, it's loss. |
| 0:22.9 | We all lost something during this pandemic. |
| 0:26.4 | I lost the cohesive experience of a workplace. |
| 0:31.8 | I feel like the virus just weaseled its way into our group, finding seeds of doubt and fear. |
| 0:40.5 | I lost my best and only friend, my dog. |
| 0:44.3 | I have a great sense of loss for who I was as a person. |
| 0:50.5 | I'm a small business owner, basically at a 65% loss in my business, so struggling to get by. |
| 0:58.0 | Our family, we do weekly dinners every week on Wednesday. |
| 1:01.9 | And when it's all first started, we shut it down. |
| 1:05.0 | And I can physically see the pain on my grandmother's face. |
| 1:09.6 | We lost money. We lost money. |
| 1:12.4 | We lost time. |
| 1:15.2 | A lot of us lost people, too. |
| 1:19.6 | 16 April, a dear close friend, Joan. |
| 1:22.2 | We've been friends since childhood. |
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