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right to mass yeah nice to meet you 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 an american and you're going to act. every day and you are doing nothing you are falsifying information and you are misleading the
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public all those 4000 people have died and you are blaming the protesters you guys that are your plans and you're doing nothing shame on you so to must what actually prompted to you to do this state of florida is now i just asked are right we're getting record cases every day yesterday we had record number of deaths i believe 186 deaths today we had 217 and we have more cases in new york and italy which were initial epicenters for this pandemic and we are 4 or 5 months out from the start and it's frankly because the governor refuses to do basic things like instituting a state wide mass mandate refuses to listen to public health experts. so here's a little bit of back story about florida that shows what a wavering approach to code it can do when big states like california new york rush to. shutdown and quarantine in march remained open much later governor
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reluctantly 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 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 pandemic because spring breakers which are you know young college people and young people have come to this part of south florida to party 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 and we're seeing it
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now this new world reopen in the middle of a pandemic so if you ask me it's 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 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 is an ordinance that was set up in place i go about 2 weeks ago or so to 2 mandates mask wearing under the threat of. this mask remember happened about 2 weeks ago so very very late into the crisis i don't think throughout. the whole of florida they're really taking this seriously. are you one of the but i'm a bit of a stop to you going to ketchup with that with the mask on
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a little me. see when you were in the man. your body is not release it was still your body you know getting fresh air with a mask or so and you just do a kitchen with the mess on if you want to see. because you breathe. i mean you have bad breath you go in the snow your. hour. i think is just a scare it is all a scare and then the election come and so they haven't you see when i was a no no no no. doubt the november watch everything just back to normal now they will split in the car roll in the. indian tennis club i don't deal even people among. the. people who are getting going to get tested in
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combat but the current. the contrast is dramatic relaxed and rochlitz florida that is just about to get struck by the pandemic compared to depressed and tormented 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 pandemic funeral home this one in. which is the area that has seen 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 little home and get his perspective on all that.
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i'm constantine that's me. it is very 1st week of april we were here one day in the fall it started to ring and every time we rang and we picked the phone up it was a death call. so have you ever seen anything like this before not 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 you can't i said 911 that 3000 people killed so you can't even compare this to 911. i've seen
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a lot of footage that was shot and 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. very good integrated group in hospital you are just too good to put a bite in the n h you've got. my hand shaking because. it is hard to look at the israeli what i'm seeing right now it was an unfortunate incident in brooklyn you know with the fuel home. that he was storing bodies a fuel truck said he stored too many and he couldn't dispose of the body started to decompose and he had a big situation that he was all over the newspapers. just you can come in here and just go from the back.
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oh my god this is the ice of the seas the other the one that started. this and you know more was in the show. that's alexandra she's carrying the body and from some of the make a point. to me like this when you're. on a daily basis and it's another story you know people oh i don't really believe those scenes. of see it firsthand it's it's real. do you have a an explanation why has 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 there'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
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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 that is a poor neighborhood with a lot of migrants down 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 about here in algiers to where 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 their door etc and when it comes to public resources institutions and services we don't prioritize that here so we're rich if you look at g.d.p. and if you look at the fact that we have like my. billionaires than other societies but in an incredibly poor overall and an incredibly unequal country that means that
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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 where we were called on a 2nd set this all these are what they call cremains this is if the somebody has been cremated ashes ashes i'm getting these problems here. what's the weight of a box. i tell people how to load size or weight is about a 5 pound major sure. mr resistance. is this crazy this is this is what's left of the worst levels of us. danielle santa cruz. the new palermo. and spinoza you know those are latino i think yeah.
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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 and was hit hard i think the back side. why does inequality in this city carry over into health care so much because for one the poor people. 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 i. so late 1000. i could swear i did. i don't know i don't know anymore.
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i'm going to business to do i don't. want your microphone back. to. some other solution that's right we talked about problems all year and then at summertime we come up with all solutions that say we're just being joined by bankers churn big point from your simon dixon of bank the future long term friend of this show. an entire village in alaska has had to move if another country trying to wipe out an american town. we do everything in our power to protect and. wanted me to skinny being the climate change poses the same threat right now alaska does seem some of the fuss just
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coastal erosion in the world we lost about 35 feet. 35 feet of ground in just about 3 months while we were measuring. it is fast and that means the river is $35.00 closer than how. long was a year ago or i don't think we're part of a murderer 1st for. across. the world is driven by a. person. thinks
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. we dare to ask. him if. there is conventional wisdom that you want to do something right given 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 it 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 taking place it's far from adequate you have people that are stacking on medical debt now from their cobra treatments let alone everything else kind of a one man for themselves price gouging no limitations thing that results in what we're doing with now and why i believe one of the biggest reason for bankruptcy for
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average citizens these days are for medical. use of my me. i. knew me. before we jump into this interview i'm going to explain. story here so she can. but then i she would skate with this ridiculous $400000.00 medical bill. all. my mother. started getting calls while if they were in the hospital and that the bill was already there before i arrived. you have really. and yes. this is how much i was charge all along. the government suppose they gave me hell
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and the bill went down 275000. so the kindly v.d.c. it be totaled but it's still $75000.00 yes and then i started getting little bills from different departments from what happened since i got to the hospital so i got a different bill from the e.r. a different bill from. the radiologist a different bill for their cardiologist just the same hospital. and different department within the hospital to turn them dependent and the plan they yet up to now i haven't seen ambulance bill either because i'm assuming says they're charging everything individually they're going to be also on the ambulance bill because the ambulance took me and brought me back home. to new york times article.
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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 work all collating me. from 621-6000 i'm i have left over 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 in that poured 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 just to leave this town really with you i don't know why they're making this so complicated and ok you're in the hospital there all the same hospital is not like i left. so different location it's all inside the same hospital why do you need to
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send so many different. they're washing their hands by saying oh charge of this department so i don't know what the department is charging all of them we figure it 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're going over all our local bit. anyway you got the deal that's why i was surprised me i'm using yes because i was watching the news in the beginning there were i'd say don't worry about it if you contract were paying all the bills for you with the whole hospital bill so why am i getting so much larger amounts for the hospital for this if i'm not for something else the hospital once the money in their pocket so they're not going to tell you all well you don't have to pay for this because
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the government gave us money and they're going to try to squeeze it through you see in the sound of 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. prop that system what happens to you for example not what they saw was that. they're. trying to get me to pay something if i still don't pay or even though i do the settlement it stays in my record for 8 years and then if i have ever won told by a whole. apartment there were in fact my credit card dangerous to get through yes. it is you have to. if you are covered or have money always say just how you got. so it's
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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 unemployment in the us is rising and has already reached record levels. we're driving through brownsville one of new york's neighborhoods that has the worst homicide in shooting right in the city. now because. so much. lot. is going. to be complaining about something like the violent crime has and through the roof in the last couple of months across the country in june some 270 people were shot dead on new york streets and it's a 154 percent increase from last year everyone talks about the murder all
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the bill gardner a one year old boy who was shot dead at a barbecue party i mean that's what barbecues localized right now and something definitely is going wrong. senior new york residents recall the bad old days when i'm in the 1980 s. and 970 s. violent crimes were rampant and neighborhoods were no go zones. so close. we're walking around town still. missing you know. little. excuse me guys who are just walking around wondering like what people have to say in this particular area of new. if you don't mind i will ask you if you question if that's good. well we know
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a little bit not to mess up new york city because that's the new look you know what i've been doing it since all the 16 year old. i'm not. gonna know the number of. a little. bit not quite good that's a good time to settle down. to a kind of shut bell in new york city along with the cold and the surge. violent crimes in the city. which has nothing to do with nothing you just want a reason leaders just i'd look for a reason to do something stupid. i
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got a tax. cut when i go out my mentor just what i want so you can go to any and everybody got to close small would you want to speak for me. i know what would happen if you were there mostly due to him i. want to work for the financial model that he put my. example texting is better couples to marry because the girl i know told me they were daft. because he's so right. and i was. well i mean those guys were. the nice and didn't look like scary at all but they
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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 cost after every aspect of living in new york has been utterly destroyed from the guy on the corner with the hot dogs to wall street to long to theatre. it's very hard to discord an unbiased of your own. and when those who are supposed to battle on the frontline are about to give up i just want like i don't want to. i want to be a how are you know the hero. and it was we were thrown into something that we didn't or. nobody helped does the battle for new york is
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almost over but new flashpoints still appear on the us 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. casualties.
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oh yes. the connection to mom i'm glad i am fast for the last 70 and seeing and some of the rest of the batch pro who should have been the commission. branches just. dissing the.
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teacher mom. you know you look are so so don't know when to much pain the mom is just back. by the pandemic no certainly no borders just blood into nationalities. as much as we do a back seat. each to be. judged as commentary prices with this system to money. we can do better we should be. everyone is contributing each other own way but we also know that this crisis will not go on forever the challenges created with the response has been massive so many
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good people are helping us. it makes us feel very proud that we're in it together. pain has changed american lives but pharmaceutical companies have a miraculous solution. based drugs to people who are chronic pain and believe that their prescription is working for them on the remedy be sent to. price at the. grocery dependency and addiction to opiates to long term use that really isn't scientifically justified in our study actually suggests that. the long term effects may not just be the absence of benefit but actually that they may be causing long term.
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the. opposition crowds full of the by the russian capital as the post-election on the rest enter the 3rd week tells a move in support of alexander lukashenko is also gaining momentum. and accent of ali's and a buddy in hospital longer being allocated from siberia to receive emergency treatment the russian opposition figure has been in a coma since thursday. and also in stories that shape the week a u.s. request to reimpose sanctions against iran is rejected by the remaining members so for ever a new baby.

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