Quarantined in the Pizzeria

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4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2020

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

COVID-19 has forced many families to improvise childcare. For some, it's been like a four month long 'bring your child to work' day. Paul Montanaro runs a pizza shop in the Bronx. That's where his 11-year-old daughter Francesca has been spending her days since her school shut down in March. Both of Francesca's parents are essential workers - her mom is an ICU nurse at a hospital in Manhattan.

For our Hunker Down Diaries series, we asked Francesca to keep an audio diary as she finished up 5th grade in the pizzeria.

Music this week from Blue Dot Sessions and “Nunca Es Suficiente” by Los Angeles Azules and Natalia Lafourcade.

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1:00.3	This is episode six of our series, hunkerdown diaries, stories about ordinary life in extraordinary times.
1:06.0	Today in the show, Quarantined in the Pizeria. COVID-19 has forced many families to improvise child care.
1:18.0	For some, it's been like a four month-long bring your child to work day.
1:22.0	Paul Montanaro runs a pizza shop in the Bronx.
1:24.9	That's where his daughter Francesca has been spending her day
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