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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Ever since the coronavirus pandemic began, we've become more accustomed to life closing down than opening up. But for many, putting life on pause isn't an option. This week, Sam talks to people whose lives were thrown off course, but who scrambled to keep doing what they were doing. A home health aide talks about the risk she now takes to do her work. A political organizer explains how door knocking and canvassing had to go digital. And an international student is determined to stay in the United States, despite losing her classes, her housing, and her job.

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0:00.0	This episode, stories of perseverance in the face of a pandemic.
0:03.9	Let's start in-house at NPR.
0:06.9	I remember the moments. It was one plant that I saw while leaving the office.
0:13.4	And so I walked past newscast on my way out and there was a single plant that was on its way out, shall we say?
0:21.0	This is Bo Hamby.
0:22.6	I'm Bo Hamby. I'm a producer at Morning Edition and up first.
0:27.6	And for the last two months or so, Bo has been in and out of NPR headquarters in Washington DC.
0:33.6	He's on these two-week rotations. And it's been a little lonely.
0:37.6	You walk in and you're used to seeing 300 people and I walked in and saw six maybe?
0:44.1	Out of that feel, that first moment, like what was your first person?
0:46.9	It was bizarre. It was totally bizarre.
0:49.9	Then one day, on his way out of the office, Bo noticed something small.
0:54.0	And it reminded him of what life used to be like in the office.
0:57.8	Before the pandemic, before most of the office got sent home.
1:01.2	Yep. It was an office plant.
1:02.8	It's a sad thought. Well, a dying office plant.
1:05.4	You know, just a sort of thought struck me.
1:07.7	Most people did not have enough notice to be like, okay, I'm going to take all of my plants home.
1:11.8	It was grab your laptop and whatever else you need to get work done and go.
1:16.4	And so at the time, I had only seen this one plant and I just sort of mentally flagged it and then kept going.
1:22.0	And in the elevator, I was like, it would be great to sort of go around the building and see what else is happening.
1:29.4	So the next day, Bo walked around the office and took a photo of the plant on crutches.
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