Stories of COVID-19: Contact, Part 2
The Story Collider
Story Collider, Inc.
4.4 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
In part 2 of our first episode, we share two more stories on the theme of Contact.
In our first story, Tracey Segarra is laid off from her corporate job during the pandemic, but finds a new calling as a contact tracer. In our second story, writer and performer Jennifer Joy begins developing symptoms of COVID-19 in early March.
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| 0:00.0 | T'was the night before Liddle's big toy event. |
| 0:02.7 | And all through the middle aisle, |
| 0:04.4 | you can find big brands like Paw Patrol, Godzilla and Pepper Pig. |
| 0:07.8 | And get an extra 10% off all plush toys with Lidl Plus. |
| 0:11.5 | In store now. |
| 0:12.5 | Now that's big on quality and always Liddle on price. |
| 0:15.5 | Subject to availability ends 4th of December. |
| 0:17.3 | See little.org.org.com. |
| 0:18.0 | For details, terms apply. |
| 0:35.4 | Welcome back to Story Collider's stories of COVID-19. |
| 0:41.2 | Today, in part two of our episode, contact, we're presenting two more stories about the risks and rewards of physical contact. |
| 0:44.3 | And again, both stories are from my home, New York City. |
| 0:48.5 | Our first story today is from Tracy Sigara. |
| 0:50.9 | It is recorded in her walk-in closet in Long Island, New York. |
| 1:04.0 | So it's the middle of April of this year, April 15th, to be exact, and I'm sitting at my dining room table trying to figure out |
| 1:13.1 | how to a market an accounting firm in the middle of a pandemic, because that's been my job for the last |
| 1:18.7 | 11 years, when I get a phone call. It's my boss. And the HR director is also on the phone. |
| 1:30.0 | So I have a feeling this is not good news. |
| 1:35.3 | And my boss says, Tracy, you know, there's really not much marketing to be done in a pandemic. |
| 1:37.3 | And we're going to have to let you go. |
| 1:41.2 | And I try to argue. |
| 1:44.9 | I try to say, well, you know, I've been trying so hard to figure out new ways to communicate, |
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