VOA – CONNECT 
EPISODE  159   
AIR DATE  01 29 2021   
TRANSCRIPT 

 
OPEN  ((VO/NAT)) 
((Banner)) 
Pandemic Woes 
((SOT)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))  
I don’t know whether we have learned.  Right now, 
everyone has heightened awareness about 
pandemics and the threat of pandemics, but we also 
have a long tradition of once a threat of this type 
disappears, we are very eager to get back to business 
as usual. 
 ((Animation Transition)) 
((Banner)) 
Generation Z 
((SOT)) 
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z)) 
A lot of the work that we do at Coalition Z is recruiting 
people who want to be engaged, who really want to 
be the next leaders of our political world but aren't 
necessarily given the resources from the beginning. 
((Banner)) 
A Look Back 
((SOT)) 
((Ireeta Ubben, Retired School Employee))  
The last one in my family, my brother, died from  
this virus down at Wichita. So, 
I'm the only one left out of the four of us, which is sad. 
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BLOCK A 
 
 
((PKG))  COVID-19 RESPONSE / EPIDEMIOLOGIST 
((TRT:  05:24))   
((Topic Banner:  An Epidemiologist’s View of 
COVID)) 
((Reporter/Camera/Producer:  Igor Tsikhanenka)) 
((Camera:  Henry Hernendez)) 
((Map:  Washington DC)) 
((Main character:  1 male)) 
((NATS)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))   
So, the first big mistake was not really having a 
surveillance system that allowed us to look for that 
very early signature of spillover.  Because if we 
identified it then, when it was still inefficient, we could 
have isolated, eliminated and essentially eradicated 
this virus.  Period.  It never would have become a 
source of community transmission.     
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))   
So, allowing it to slowly sort of establish its efficiency 
in human-to-human transmission over a period of time 
really meant that in December, when it was finally 
identified, it was a highly efficient human-to-human 
transmission  
((Photo Courtesy:  AP)) 
and there was already widespread community 
transmission within Wuhan.    
((NATS)) 
((Photo Courtesy:  AP)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))  
So, that’s the second mistake is that we did not then 
turn that initial recognition in December, that we had 
not only a highly efficient but a lethal virus, into a 
coordinated global effort because once something 
becomes that efficient, a respiratory virus begins 
spreading that easily, borders are of no 
consequences.  It will spread as quickly as possible.    
((NATS)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))  
In Asia, the Asian countries activated their plans and 
they did a good job.  So, you can see that in countries 
like South Korea, in Taiwan, in Vietnam, in Thailand, 
those three countries collectively have barely more 
than a thousand deaths, but they have almost the 
entire population of the United States.  And that’s 
because in January, they began activating their plans  
((Photo Courtesy:  AP)) 
that spoke to how do you manage the spread of a 
respiratory virus.  In Europe, in North America and the 
United States, we didn’t.  As a consequence, we are 
paying that price now.   
((NATS)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))  
I’d say we were a total failure.  Look, we have 300, 
more than 300,000 [currently 425,000] deaths in this 
country.  An equivalent-sized population is dealing 
with a thousand deaths.  That difference?  This is not 
a technologically constrained investment.  If Vietnam 
and Thailand can bring this virus under control, why 
can’t the United States?    
((NATS)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))  
This pandemic has evolved into, I might say, devolved 
into an incredibly fractious political divide within the 
United States.  And it’s a political divide that says, this 
is a myth or this is a reality.   
((NATS)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))   
We need to acknowledge and recognize that there will 
be another virus of this type, will emerge and 
potentially have this kind of impact again.  It’s not a 
question of if.  It is a question of when.  But it is also 
important to recognize that this is a pandemic that is 
entirely preventable.    
((NATS)) 
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))  
The first step in moving the world towards being more 
secure from a future COVID-19 event, is one, having 
really our eyes on future threats while they are still 
circulating in their natural habitat before they become 
a sort of a community-level threat.  So, we need a 
surveillance system, a global surveillance system that 
is routinely tracking and monitoring viruses, 
particularly high-risk viruses.    
((Dennis Carroll, Chair, Global Virome Project, 
Leadership Board))  
The second is that the spillover itself is not a 
necessary event.  The spillover is a real consequence 
of how we interact with the environment around us.  
And if, in these hotspots, we pay closer attention to 
what are those risky behaviors and practices that 
enable spillovers to happen, we can better regulate 
and control those behaviors.    
Humanity, as a group, tends not to be a quick learner.  
So, I don’t know whether we’ve learned.  You would 
have to come back five years from now.  Because 
right now, everyone has heightened awareness about 
pandemics and the threat of pandemics, but we also 
have a long tradition of once a threat of this type 
disappears, we are very eager to get back to business 
as usual. 
 
 
((PKG)) COVID / STRAND BOOKSTORE 
((TRT:  03:46)) 
((Topic Banner:  Holding On))  
((Reporter:  Anna Nelson)) 
((Camera:  Natalia Latukhina, Max Avloshenko))  
((Adapted by:  Zdenko Novacki)) 
((Map:  New York City, New York))    
((Main character:  1 female))  
((Sub characters:  1 female;  2 males)) 
((MUSIC/NATS)) 
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore))  
My first memory is walking into the store and just kind 
of seeing it kind of painted ghostly gray, and seeing 
all the walls of books everywhere and smelling that 
kind of chocolaty, musty kind of smell, and seeing my 
grandpa and my dad working side-by-side at the 
buying desk, and heading straight back to the 
children's section, where it was just candy colored 
books.  And I felt like such a princess because I could 
pick out any book that I wanted or books that I wanted 
to. 
((NATS)) 
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore))  
So, the store's been around for 93 years.  It was 
begun by my grandpa, Benjamin Bass, in an area that 
was called Book Row that was just around the corner 
and there were 48 bookstores at the time.   
((Courtesy:  Strand Bookstore)) 
1946, we moved over, just a block over, to a higher 
traffic area on Broadway  
((Courtesy:  Strand Bookstore)) 
where we are today.   
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore))  
The store was then passed on to my dad, Fred Bass, 
and then on to me.  So, all three of us have worked all 
of our lives at the store.  
We have survived almost everything: the depression, 
two world wars, 9/11, until COVID stopped us in our 
tracks - the first thing that has really, really 
dangerously affected us.  
((NATS)) 
((Vasilis Terpsopoulos, Rare Book Expert, Strand 
Bookstore))  
And it's a limited signed edition of James Joyce's 
Ulysses, all of which were signed by Henri Matisse, 
who was the artist who illustrated it, signed also by 
James Joyce.  
((NATS)) 
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore)) 
Of course, at first it was very painful and I very much 
felt all alone and I didn't know, “What am I going to do 
next?”   
((Courtesy:  Strand Bookstore)) 
So, I decided I would write a letter, a heartfelt letter 
and appeal to our customers and my friends and see 
if they would, I, the only ask was, “Would you buy 
your holiday gifts from us?”  Three hours later, our 
website crashed.  It did not know how to handle that 
many orders.  
((NATS)) 
((Dan Roth, Web Orders Manager, Strand 
Bookstore))   
It was sort of a combination of “Wow” and “Uh-oh”.  
So, yeah, you know, we instantly started figuring out, 
“How are we going to do this?”   
((NATS)) 
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore)) 
We had one lady from the Bronx and she put in an 
order of 197 copies. 
((NATS)) 
((Sara Buroi, Customer))  
It's really sad.  So, everyone's getting books this year 
for Christmas, everyone I know.  
((NATS)) 
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore)) 
We realize that we have to pivot very early to 
Christmas holiday buying.  So, we just encourage 
people to buy early, think indie, you know, and buy 
local.  Support your neighborhood stores.  I just think 
this is a little bit of a wake-up call for people that are 
just staying at home and, you know, consumed with 
the news that when COVID’s over with, they might 
wake up and their neighborhood has disappeared.  
Neighborhood’s retail stores have disappeared.  
((NATS)) 
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore)) 
I have to think that my grandpa and dad are looking 
down at this turn of events and are just absolutely 
floored and cannot believe this phenomenon.  And I 
never would have imagined this outpouring of love.  
((NATS)) 
((Nancy Bass Wyden, Owner, Strand Bookstore)) 
Thank you, New York, for today.  
((NATS)) 
 
 
TEASE  ((VO/NAT)) 
Coming up 
((Banner)) 
Kids and Vaping 
((SOT)) 
((Dr. Subash Bazaz, Cardiologist, General and 
Nuclear Cardiology)) 
Educating young people everywhere about the 
dangers of vaping is going to be critical to stopping 
this epidemic.  
 
 
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BLOCK B   
 
 
((PKG))  VAPING    
((TRT:  04:29)) 
((Topic Banner:  Dangers of Vaping))  
((Reporter:  Faiza Elmasry))  
((Camera/Editor:  Mike Burke)) 
((Map:  Reston, Virginia))   
((Main character:  1 male)) 
((Sub character:  1 male)) 
((NATS)) 
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior)) 
My name is Sid Thakker and I’m a rising senior at 
James Madison High School.  Throughout my high 
school life, I've seen e-cigarettes really develop.  So, 
from ninth grade, it wasn't that big of an issue, but as I 
moved on to 10th and 11th grade, the issue became 
rampant.  Many kids were caught with vapes, with 
using an e-cigarette.  The incidence rates almost went 
up to 25 percent.  So, one in every four students were 
using one.  And this was really concerning for me and 
my principal.  From 10th grade to 11th grade, we saw 
e-cigarette detectors in bathrooms.  We saw security 
patrolling the hallways to making sure kids weren't 
skipping class and using the bathrooms to vape 
in.  And so, we really saw how this problem became 
not just an issue for kids, but an issue for school 
security. 
((NATS:  Sid Thakker)) 
That dopamine is the main chemical that makes you 
hooked onto the substance.  It gives you that high, 
is what’s makes it addictive. 
((Courtesy:  Sid Thakker/ NicReport.org)) 
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior)) 
My non-profit or NicRreport has really strived to 
create a curriculum that's not just inclusive on the 
factors of e-cigarettes and why it's such a big 
problem, but we really hope to teach students 
((Courtesy:  Sid Thakker/ NicReport.org)) 
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior)) 
ways to say ‘no’ to using these e-cigarettes.  One 
problem we really face is that kids often don't want to 
be using them but are often peer pressured into using 
them.  So, the curriculum we developed for health 
class 
((Photo Courtesy:  Sid Thakker/ NicReport.org)) 
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior)) 
was really used to help educate students on the social 
dangers that are around it and the emotional factors 
around it.   
((Photo Courtesy:  Sid Thakker/ NicReport.org)) 
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior)) 
And we also created another curriculum in biology 
class.  And here we really wanted to focus on 
educating students on the dangers of e-cigarettes 
internally.  We focused on how e-cigarettes affect 
cells, how they affect our organelles.  In total, we've 
been able to impact over 3,000 students and 
teachers.  
((Courtesy:  Sid Thakker/ NicReport.org))  
((NATS:  Sid Thakker and Dr. Subash Baza)) 
If I'm able to get successful results within the ….   
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior)) 
We had a chance to talk to over 100 parents on 
exactly what I'm doing at our school and why this is 
such a big issue. 
One student that I was talking with, he was a really 
big athlete at our school.  And after learning about the 
side effects of vaping on lung capacity and how much 
air actually runs through his lungs, he was really 
shocked to see.  
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior))
And it really persuaded him not to be using the device 
anymore.   
((NATS:  Sid Thakker)) 
Now we’re planning on actually moving to a couple 
other high schools. 
((Dr. Subash Bazaz, Cardiologist, General and 
Nuclear Cardiology)) 
Sid's efforts at educating his fellow classmates and 
young people everywhere about the dangers of 
vaping is going to be critical to stopping this 
epidemic.  
((Courtesy:  Reuters)) 
((Dr. Subash Bazaz, Cardiologist, General and 
Nuclear Cardiology)) 
There is a perception that it is “safer” than 
conventional cigarettes and conventional 
tobacco products even though we don't really know 
that.  The rapid uptake is probably a product of very 
sophisticated and careful marketing.  It is marketed as 
safer.  It is marketed as a good way to help quitting 
smoking.  From a lung standpoint or a pulmonary 
standpoint, there had been up to 2,000 cases 
reported of what is termed vaping-induced lung 
disease, 
((Courtesy:  Reuters)) 
((Dr. Subash Bazaz, Cardiologist, General and 
Nuclear Cardiology)) 
where a user suddenly gets a severe lung injury.  The 
ongoing use of cigarettes, probably combined with 
these other products, causes continual damage to the 
cardiovascular system.  
((Dr. Subash Bazaz, Cardiologist, General and 
Nuclear Cardiology)) 
A big lesson from COVID-19 is, you have to maintain 
your health in any way possible.  And something that 
is in people's control is, don’t get started with smoking 
or vaping products. 
((Sid Thakker, Founder, NicReport; High School 
Senior)) 
We're in our pristine years and we're at an all-time 
high.  I really hate to see kids really ruin their internal 
body through this chemical that’s really just useless. 
((MUSIC/NATS)) 
 
 
((PKG))  COALITION Z   
((TRT:  5:45))  
((Topic Banner:  Young, Political and Organized))  
((Reporter/Camera:  Aaron Fedor))
    ((Producer:  Kathleen McLaughlin)) 
((Editor:  Kyle Dubiel))   
((Map:  New York City, New York))    
((Main characters:  5 females;  1 male))  
((NATS)) 
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
Stop the silence, end gun violence.  
Stop the silence, end gun violence.  
((Josephine O’Brien, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z)) 
Coalition Z is a national student-led policy 
organization that basically aims to get Generation Z 
involved in the policy making process  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
and turn our passion for social change and activism 
into concrete policy change.  
Coalition Z was founded in 2016 by three students at 
the Dalton School in New York City, named Zoe 
Davidson, Alex Lehman and Bryson Wiese.  We’re 
now a national organization with over 500 members in 
33 chapters in 13 different states. 
((end Courtesy)) 
((Durga Sreenivasan, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z)) 
So, Generation Z, we’re obviously the generation after 
millennials and I believe the official start date of 
Generation Z, if you’re born in 1998, that’s when you, 
that’s where Generation Z begins.   
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
But it’s really anyone in middle school, high school 
and college right now, I believe is more of a loose like  
((end Courtesy)) 
definition of who Gen Z is right now. 
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
So, Coalition Z is a completely youth-led political 
action group and we are promoting liberal ideals and  
((end Courtesy)) 
liberal causes in America. 
((NATS)) 
((Popup Banner:  
Gen Z Americans are more racially and ethnically 
diverse than older generations; most view that 
diversity positively.  They’re also less likely than older 
Americans to see the US as superior to other nations. 
– Pew Research)) 
((NATS)) 
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z)) 
A lot of the work that we do at Coalition Z is recruiting 
people who want to be engaged, 
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
who really want to be the next leaders of our 
political world but aren't necessarily given the 
resources from the beginning.  
((end Courtesy)) 
((NATS)) 
((Josephine O’Brien, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
The issues that are most important to Generation Z, I 
would say first and foremost, definitely climate 
change.  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
Racial justice is really important to our generation.  I 
think healthcare is particularly important to our 
generation.  I think it's important to note that  
((end Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
like we literally grew up through multiple financial 
crises.  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
Like one of the first news stories I remember as a 
child was the 2008 financial crisis.  I was like six years 
old.  And right now, we're coming of age in obviously 
another financial crisis.  
((end Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
((NATS))  
Assault weapons have got to go.  Hey-hey, ho-ho.   
Assault weapons have got to go.  
((Gabe Sender, Policy Director, Coalition Z))  
I'm the Policy Director for Coalition Z, which means 
that I was responsible for developing the policy 
platform  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
that we recently put out onto our website.  And I'm 
also involved with connecting youth to candidates to 
make sure that we have an outreach in our 
community.  
((end Courtesy)) 
((Samantha Chong, Graphics and Media Director, 
Coalition Z)) 
I do social media.  I'm the Graphics and Media 
Director.  
((Maria Silva, Graphics Designer, Coalition Z))  
I design graphics for Coalition Z.   
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
So, we try to put out pictures that really speak to kids 
and that show like kids and teenagers and even 
adults to some extent.  We try to like show diversity 
and try to get people involved.  
((end Courtesy)) 
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
Hi, do you have your fast pass?  If you don't, that's 
okay. They'll look up your information inside.  It just 
makes everything a lot….  
((Voter 1)) 
I'd like to go faster.  
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
Yeah, yeah. 
((Voter 1)) 
How are you?  
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
Good.  How are you?  
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
Poll working is one of the easiest ways someone like 
me, who's 17, can engage with our democracy 
without having the ability to vote and I'm not going to 
be able to vote actually in the next primary election 
here in New York, next June.  So, I have a full two 
years until I'm eligible to vote.   
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
I think my first exposure to kind of electroral 
organizing was when I was four years old.  Every 
year, my parents took a trip to Pennsylvania to knock 
on doors and I went with them when I was four 
and we knocked on doors.  And it was my first 
opportunity  
((end Courtesy)) 
to talk to voters and talk to people outside of my little 
California, New York, progressive bubble.  There are 
Coalition Z members in New York, in Pennsylvania, 
North Carolina, Ohio, California, Texas, Florida, all 
working the polls.  
((NATS in Spanish)) 
Hi.  Espanol?  
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Cirector, Coalition 
Z)) 
There’s another line for seniors.   
((Voter 2)) 
Where? 
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack)) 
It’s faster, right over here.  
((Josephine O’Brien, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
The day of the election was very, very stressful.  I 
know we had our Coalition Z chapters and people in 
Coalition Z all over the country,  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
really getting down and doing work.  We had three 
phone banks for our Senate candidates and our 
House candidates throughout the country. 
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
And then when it was called, I think it was just a day 
of joy.   
((end Courtesy))  
I actually found out because I heard the banging of 
the pots outside my apartment window and everyone 
cheering.   
((Courtesy))  
I live in Uptown Manhattan.  And like, old ladies came 
out of their houses and they were dancing and there 
was someone playing saxophone on my corner and… 
((end Courtesy)) 
((Josephine O’Brien, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z)) 
It has been a challenge, especially to be sometimes 
the youngest people in the room in 
particular, because sometimes we'll be brought into 
political spaces as kind of like the Gen Z voice  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
and like the high school voice.  And that's always a 
really difficult role to play because like Gen Z has a 
wide range of experiences and backgrounds and 
views and issues that they care about.  
((end Courtesy)) 
((NATS:  Josephine O’Brien, Charlotte Ritz-Jack))  
Yeah.  So, I was talking to students for Ossoff and 
Warnock earlier this weekend.  
Right.  
((Durga Sreenivasan, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
So, in the coming years, we’re definitely going to 
continue to grow  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
our leadership to engage more young people around 
the country.   
((end Courtesy)) 
Definitely just growing Coalition Z and making our 
voices heard. 
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
((Josephine O’Brien, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z))  
At the same time, we're going to start working with 
other progressive organizations  
((end Courtesy)) 
like the Sunrise Movement, to start holding Joe Biden 
[President] accountable, because as we mentioned,  
((Courtesy:  Coalition Z)) 
progressives and young people helped get Joe Biden 
elected.  So, we're going to make sure that our 
values, our views, our policies are really reflected in 
this administration.   
And then, of course, we're not going to forget about 
the local level.  Our New York City chapters are really 
going to be focused on the upcoming 2021 municipal 
elections.  And then, our chapters nationwide are 
going to be focused on local elections in their area.  
((Charlotte Ritz-Jack, Executive Director, Coalition 
Z)) 
We’re going to go off to college soon and I'm really 
excited about the group of young people that 
are going to rise into the organization and take over 
some of the roles that are going to be left  
((end Courtesy)) 
And I think there's so much opportunity there.  And 
I'm just really excited to see where it goes.  
((Josephine O’Brien, Executive Director, 
Coalition))  
Yes, I agree with that. 
((NATS)) 
 
 
TEASE  ((VO/NAT)) 
Coming up 
((Banner)) 
Reflections 
((SOT))  
((Ireeta Ubben, Retired School Employee))  
My life was interesting to me anyway.  It was not real  
exciting but, you know, 
I loved my husband and I loved my kids and we had a
  
good time.   
 
 
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BLOCK C  
 
 
((PKG))  CONNECT WITH – IREETA UBBEN   
((TRT:  03:23)) 
((Banner:  Connect with Ireeta Ubben)) 
((Reporter/Camera:  Deepak Dobhal)) 
((Locater:  Phillipsburg, Kansas)) 
((Main Character:  1 Female)) 
((MUSIC/NATS)) 
((Ireeta Ubben, Retired School Employee))  
I'm Ireeta Ubeen.  I'm 90 years old. 
I was married when I was 19.  My husband was 23. 
My dad didn't want me to get married.  He thought 
I was too young, and I said, "How old was mom when 
you got married?”  "Well, she was 18 but that  
was different."   
So, which didn't convince me of anything. 
So, we ran off and got married.  I didn't go to  
work that 
day, I remember that.  I took a taxi to work so  
I wouldn't get my, it was raining, so I wouldn't get my 
hair wet.   
That's what I remember about that. 
I had a job at school.  I ran the kitchen at the junior 
high for 23 years. 
My life was interesting to me anyway.  It was not real  
exciting but, you know, 
I loved my husband and I loved my kids and we had a
good time.  
After my husband died, I had some good friends, and  
we traveled a lot, and we went 
and I've been in almost every state except  
maybe one.  And so, and then they've all, they're all  
gone but me. 
And that's sad.  My best friend and, for 50 years, and  
she's gone.  So, I outlived my friends. 
I live alone.  Lot of room but it's my house, so. 
I can still drive and so I get around, but like 
I say, I'm scared of  
this virus.  So, I'm staying at home quite a bit. 
The last one in my family, my brother, died from this  
virus, down at Wichita. So, 
I'm the only one left out of the four of us, which is sad. 
Since it was this virus, I couldn't even go to the  
funeral or anything.  It was not a good time. 
I just hope I don't have to go to a nursing home.   
I don't want to go to a nursing home. 
That's my, I don't want to do it. 
So, otherwise what’s the use of worrying? 
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