tv Documentary RT August 21, 2020 12:30pm-1:01pm EDT
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write to mass yeah that's the nature and to me trip to mars is an activist here in florida who raises probably awareness about the covert $900.00 situation and he also become the center of attention if you went back when he interrupted the governor's press conference you're going to marry we're getting your act of breaking every day and you're doing nothing you're falsifying information and you are misleading the public over 4000 people have died and you are blaming the protesters you guys not to your place and you're doing nothing shame on you so to must what actually prompted you to do this state of florida is now i just asked are right we're getting record cases every day yesterday we had a record number of i believe 186 deaths today we had 217 and we have more cases in new york and italy which were initial episode. for this pandemic and we are 45
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months out from the start and it's frankly because the gov refuses to do basic things like instituting a state where they refused to listen to public health experts. so here's a little bit of back story about florida that shows what a wavering approach to do when big states like california new york rush to shutdown and quarantine in march to stay remained open much later governor. ordered bars restaurants and other public places close by may the number of confirmed cases was relatively low in florida so this was among the 1st governors to reopen his state even bragged about how well he had. saved the local economy and that's when things began to unravel. hospital
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started to flood with patients. to accommodate the bodies that couldn't handle florida came into the national spotlight and if you remember actually florida initially made news through that endemic because spring breakers which are you know young college people and young people have come to this part of south florida to party in in march because they have a break in school they county and the state government and the county government didn't do anything to try to stop that because it's money right now and we're seeing it now in the world reopen in the middle of a pandemic right so if you ask me is really just greed and the fact that these people want to make money no matter what by the way let's just also explain to the audience that we actually have to keep. throughout this interview even though we are outside in this county just this county miami dade there's an ordinance that was set up in place i go about 2 weeks ago or so. who that mandates mask wearing
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under the threat of a foreign right this mask mandate but remember happened about 2 weeks ago so very very late into the crisis i don't think the broad throughout the whole of florida they're really taking this seriously. are you are not going to but i'm a bit of a stop about if you want to catch up with the with the mess on with it all you know i mean. see when you were in the mess your body is not release it was a still your body you know you're not getting fresh air with the mask on so and i mean you just do a kitchen with a mess on if you want to see it when a man because you breathe. i mean you have bad breath you go in the snow your breath all day in the. hour.
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i think is just a scare. is all a scare and then the election coming up so. you haven't you see when i was in no no colder no not to cold with out the november watch everything just back to normal and they will split in the car around the. indian tennis clubs i don't deal with giving people a moment. just to test the people getting going to get tested in combat but the current. act. the contrast is dramatic relaxed and rochlitz florida that is just about to get struck by the pandemic compared to depressed and for man to new york which is just trying to get back on its feet after includes devastating blow. this crisis has devastated a lot of american businesses but there is one sector that has been thriving since the onset of the. and demick funeral how this one. which is the area that has seen
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more coronavirus deaths than any other neighborhood in new york has been working extra shifts since the beginning of this pandemic so let's see the owner of this 2nd of all home and get his perspective on all that. i'm constantine estimate. it is very 1st week of april we were here one day in the fold started to ring and every time we. and we picked the fold up it was a death. so have you ever seen anything like this before that nobody in this business is ever seen anything like this. you know some people ask me how do you compare this to 911 and says he
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can't i said 911 that 3000 people killed so you can't even compare this to 911. i've seen a lot of footage that was shot in this area where you hold trucks standing just right in front of pheromone homes and you know bodies are being carried into the struck some and it was crazy this is very good good it's a very good integrated group in hospital you are just too good to put to biden. who is the real my hand. is hard to look at the israeli what i'm seeing right now it was an unfortunate. incident in brooklyn you know where the
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feel. that he was storing bodies fuel trucks that he stored too many and he couldn't dispose of the body started to decompose and he had a big situation that was all over the newspapers. just you can come in here and just film from the back. oh my god this is nice of the seas the other the one that started. this and you know more was finishing up that's alexandra streets carrying the body and for some of her the make up over. to a place like this when you have death on a daily basis then that's another story you know people oh i don't really believe those scenes. of see it firsthand it's it's real.
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do you have a an explanation why has it been hit so hard. by kobe 19 compared to other parts of the city. the only thing that i can comes to mind is possibly the way that people live. very very diverse i mean that's a lot a lot of nationalities you know you have a house like this. you know it's illegal to fail but then convert the basement into apartments to bring people in to help pay the rent and then they'll crowd the men. in america this is especially striking the spread of the coronavirus is directly related to the standard of living in a particular area and it's a poor neighborhood with a lot of migrants and the virus is going to spread far more quickly and claim more lives than in other parts of the city so if you are in a more affluent area of new york you might find one or 2 people without a mask because if there is nothing they should worry you. but here in alberta where
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death is so real and so close you'd be hard pressed to find anyone without protection we are incredibly on the ball in our society compared to western or the new york knicks address and when it comes to public resources institutions and services we don't prioritize that year so we're rich if you look at g.d.p. and if you look at the fact that we have like more billionaires than other societies but in an incredibly poor overall and an incredibly unequal country that means that these kinds of crises are going to affect some folks much worse than it does others. think. this is a portion of the cremains that have not been picked up from the cases that we did what we called on a 2nd set this all these are what they call cremains this is if the someone has been cremated ashes to ashes i'm getting these problems here.
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what's the weight of a box. i tell people all swallowed size or weight is about a 5 pound major issue of. existence that's her sister it's just crazy this is this is what's left of the worst levels of us. danielle santa cruz. and the new palermo. and sabeer spinoza you know those are latino think yeah. yeah i mean 95 percent of my business is minorities and 1st wave immigrant folks from another country the most vulnerable part of the society who was hit hard i think the back side is. why does inequality in this city carry over into health care so much because for one does. poor people.
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were forced to come out it was choosing between exposing yourself and earning your living because then you might not have money to buy food poor people have less resources therefore they probably are not as healthy. poor people don't have the luxury per se or the luxury of saying i'm going to isolate myself. i thought i could swear i did. i don't know i don't know any more. good business to do i don't. want your microphone. talk no no crowd. no shots. actually
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dealt. with well it's true i know the 1st. point should be your thirst for. anyone else chose seemed wrong but old quotes just don't call. me. yet to shape out these days to come to educate and indeed trade equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when you choose to look for common ground . is your media a reflection of reality. in
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the world transformed. what will make you feel safe from. the isolation community. are you going the right way or are you being led. away. what is true what is faith. in a world corrupted you need to descend. to join us in the depths. or a maybe in the shallows. an entire village in alaska. if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect. wanted a escaping climate change is the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fuss just coastal erosion in the world we lost about 30 feet.
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35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. is fast and that means the river is 35 closer than how it was 4 i don't think we're part of thirst for. there is conventional wisdom that if you want to do something right give it to the private sector we have the largest health care system in the world in the us which is private or semi private you should say right so from that perspective fit should be. doing just fine well as we've seen it's not you need only look at the current system and see what's taken place it's far from adequate you have people that are stacking on medical debt now from their cobra treatments let alone everything else
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kind of a one man for themselves price gouging no limitations cost barrier thing that results in what we're doing with now and why i believe $1.00 of the biggest reasons for bankruptcy for average citizens these days are for medical. hi guys. i. mean me one before we jump into this interview i'm going to quickly explain. janet's story here so she can. we call her back and now she was with this ridiculous 400000 dollar medical bill. all. of your life. my mother said that i actually started getting calls while if they were in the
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hospital and that the bill was already there before i arrived. they have to rely on yes so this is how much i was charge all along. the government suppose they gave me hell and the bill went down 275000. so the kindly v d's the total but it's still $75000.00 yes and then i started getting little bills from different department a problem what happened since i got to the hospital so i got a different bill are different bill from. the radiologist to from the cardiologist the same hospital. and different depart. within the hospital return to their time dependent and the plan they yet up to now i haven't seen. either because i'm assuming says they're charging everything individually they're going to be also on the ambulance bill because families took me and brought me back
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home. the new york times article. saying all we're going to review how much you really old and were later on going to send you a bill final bill how much you really all the hospital call collating me. from 621-6000 i'm i have leftover that i have to pay from my pocket and goes on offense and you have to make sure and by the time you went to the right i had insurance the whole time you turned $98.00 anywhere. because out of pocket. 6000 out of pocket that i have to pay that's the insurance i just talked yesterday about the yes but anyway why are you every so often the air you just have to leave this town really. i don't know why they're making this so complicated and ok you're
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in the hospital they're all the same hospital is not like i left a different location that's all inside the same hospital why do you need to send so many different bills sold there they're washing their hands by saying all but in charge of this department so i don't know what the department is charging all of them we figured out let me find out and weeks passed by and still nothing it's been almost 3 months as i've been outside of the hospital and i don't know what's the real amount yet the last government announced that they were going to cover all off a little bit. anyway you got real deal yes that's why i was surprised me to this is confusing yes because our. was watching the news in the beginning there were i'd say don't worry about it if your contract were paying all the bills for you would like the whole hospital bill so why am i getting so much larger amounts for the
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hospital for this if i'm not for something else the hospital once to money in their pocket so they're not going to tell you all well you don't have to pay for this because the government gave us money and they're going to try to squeeze it through you see in the sound of the thing the health care system it's not made for the people it's not made to keep you healthy it's not made to help you in any way and certainly not made to help you pay your bills it's a for profit system what happens to you for example not what they saw was that they got their. settlement trying to get me to pay something if i still don't pay or even though i do all the settlement it's based on my record for 8 years and then if i have ever won told by a whole. apartment or affect my credit bottom line
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dangerous to get through here yes. it is you have to think about it if you are called for more money always say just for you to go to the hospital. so it's a vicious circle to pay the medical bills at least in part you need insurance to get insurance you need a job but due to the pandemic i'm implementing the u.s. is rising and has already reached record levels. we're driving through brownsville one of new york's neighborhoods that has the worst homicide rate in the city. so. it's. can you be complaining about something like that i think crime has gone through the roof in the last couple of months across the country in june some 270 people were shot dead on new york street
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and it's a 154 percent increase from last year everyone talks about the murder on. a one year old boy who was shot dead at a barbecue party i mean that's what barbecues localise right now. something to death and the police call in are all. senior new york residents recall the bad old days when in the 1980970 s. violent crimes were rampant and neighborhoods were no go zones. so. we're walking around town still. my 6 year old little.
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excuse me guys who are just walking around wondering like what people have to say in this particular area of new york some you know mine i will ask you if you question if that's a good. point how it would lead to messed up new york city for the good are you there for the new york university i was right that's going to do it because all the 16 year old. god i'm going to knock on the morning. i'm gonna know the number. i will not be able to go through a good time and not go in there it's going kind of certain to me i'm going to kind of shut down new york city and along with coded the surge. violent crimes in the city would go no looting. which has nothing to do with nothing just want a reason. i look for a reason to do something stupid. i
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well i mean those guys were pretty nice and they didn't look like scary at all but they reminded us that he should not run into the wrong crowd here so. that it could go in. the us just like the rest of the world is fighting in swore against 19 it will no doubt achieve victory eventually but the question is at what cost free aspect living in new york has been i don't like from the guy on the corner with. cool wall street to a low. theater. it's very hard. on with these forward and undressed in your own county. and when those who are supposed to battle on the frontline are about to give up i just want out like i don't want to anymore i don't want to be
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a help to work anymore are you know the hero. and it was we were thrown into something that we didn't ask for and nobody helped us the battle for new york is so most over but the new flashpoint still appear on the u.s. map so i think we're going to get a 2nd wave so we're not even there with the 1st wave of the 1st wave will go and that means that there will definitely be new casualties.
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effects of god. in your backpack in. our headline stories this hour the bell a russian opposition leader urges citizens to keep the pressure on president lukashenko with more work strikes on protests but there's also a growing chilled support for the embattled leader. because we stand for an independent builders only with beef and tranquility will be able to survive these i've seen how countries have been destroyed with people fleeing in boats to europe and living in migrant camps i believe who must not choose this path this is really a kind of revolution. russian doctors give the green light for alexina bali to be flown to germany for treatment the opposition figurehead is in a coma with tests ruling.
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