Hi everybody and welcome back. In today's video, I wanted to talk about something that I think we've lost on ourselves as far as conversations go.

You know, the COVID-19 pandemic is still something that remains very effective in people's lives and is influencing the way people work, the way people live, what they do with their own personal health decisions, their minds, their bodies, their masks.

And I think in the constant ever changing news cycle, we've lost out on the COVID-19 conversation in a powerful video that I've had the chance to see this past week has opened my eyes to even myself forgetting to talk about this every now and then.

Let's check out this video.

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Now this video popped up on Twitter, Taylor sent it over to me. He's often the source of all my stories and things that I talk about is Taylor Trandal.

And in this is a video of a man by the name of Clifton Duncan talking about his experience with the COVID-19 pandemic and how it's affected his life, his career and in just his worldview in general. Let's watch now.

Because it reminds me of a life that I've spent the past two years trying desperately to forget.

I've been trying to forget it because the contrast between what my life was and what it is now to be completely candid often drives me to despair.

So now I'm staring down the barrel of 40 years of age. I no longer reside in the city formerly known as New York. A place I called home for a decade and a half.

I wait tables for a living, something I hadn't had to do since I was 22 years old. I no longer have a powerful manager sending me auditions for lucrative high profile life changing projects.

And I no longer have the prospect of earning a five figure weekly salary working in TV your broad way. And so now the prospect of paying off all those NYU loans.

Maybe even starting a family have become even more distant dreams. I'm now shut out of the entertainment industry.

I have few marketable skills because I never needed them. The few skills I did work on centered around acting and singing skills which are highly valued in New York and Los Angeles,

but which as you might imagine have very little value outside of the arts and entertainment sector.

I feel as home starting over from scratch and must learn things that most adults my age, many of whom have families and other weighty responsibilities have mastered.

I just want to pause before you even gets into the reasoning why this is happening to him and say this is very sad.

I'm like there's no other word to say that that I can't imagine being in that position as an adult who's given all your time and your effort to a certain specific passion and to have that all crumble in front of you and to be left with oh my gosh, I don't know what to do.

Here I am a grown man in the United States of America with with out marketable skills as he says so terrifying.

And so you may be asking yourself what the hell happened.

Why have I gone from having a billboard with my likeness on it in the middle of time square when it stand out notices in the New York Times and guest during our network television to where I am now.

Well, it's quite simple. I refuse to allow any employer or by extension the government to act as my health care provider and to dictate what I inject into my body.

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