COVID-19 Humanity Betrayal ㅤ Memory Project
David Smith: husband, father, Pawpaw, brother, and son Transcript
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Timestamp: 00:26:55.679 - 00:27:41.105
About This Clip: The victim indicates that discrimination based on
Excerpt: "there’s discrimination again in the hospital against unvaccinated... they got discriminated against. They got left alone. They were mentally and physically abused because they were unvaccinated.
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Timestamp: 00:15:30.205 - 00:16:23.970
About This Clip: Victim describes feeling manipulated and expresses
Excerpt: "they called me and told me they had to put him on the ventilator because his oxygen was just too low. And I'm like, what the heck? Like, it was good. ... I keep listening to and hearing is him tell me that they don't wanna mess with him. ... they don't have to give him food. They don't have to, you know, take him to the bathroom or give him ice.
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Timestamp: 00:07:35.459 - 00:07:50.555
About This Clip: The victim expresses their feelings of being misle
Excerpt: "I'm sorry. That was such a lie. ... We're just they're telling me this, and I'm believing them because we're supposed to believe them.
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Timestamp: 00:12:58.340 - 00:13:05.745
About This Clip: Pervasive sense of wrongdoing. The victim felt tha
Excerpt: "I felt like, lady, if this was your husband laying here, you would wanna be here as long as you could be.
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Timestamp: 00:25:51.744 - 00:26:11.059
About This Clip: The victim expresses anger and frustration at bein
Excerpt: "I am not in my right mind at this time... You have brought me in this room away from him who was dying to talk about vaccinating. Like, what is wrong with you?
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Timestamp: 00:13:20.190 - 00:13:38.434
About This Clip: Denial of bathroom use. The victim mentioned that
Excerpt: "Like, I helped him go to the bathroom, before I left because he again, he tells me they don't come in, and they don't, you know, check on him. So I helped him go to the bathroom. And the next day, he had a catheter in.
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Timestamp: 00:13:48.440 - 00:14:12.634
About This Clip: Dehydration and starvation. The victim's loved one
Excerpt: "And when I was there that day, he asked over and over and over again for ice. My husband loved ice. Even if he's at home, like, he always had ice. And they finally brought it before I left for my visit that day. But it's like, how many times you have to ask for ice?
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Timestamp: 00:25:12.849 - 00:26:29.799
About This Clip: The victim describes being pressured by a doctor t
Excerpt: "after seeing what your husband is going through, Not vaccinated. Are you now gonna get vaccinated? Oh my goodness... you’re not gonna get vaccinated after seeing what he’s gone through. And I said no. Every time, I told him no.
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Timestamp: 00:19:06.990 - 00:19:13.009
About This Clip: Victim expresses doubt and mistrust about the medi
Excerpt: "I don't really believe that just from what I was seeing from the blood work and things.
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Timestamp: 00:13:10.284 - 00:13:18.304
About This Clip: Neglect. The victim expresses frustration over the
Excerpt: "I was not hurting anyone. I was not hurting him. If anything, I was helping him because they weren't.
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Timestamp: 00:10:23.769 - 00:11:17.589
About This Clip: The victim describes the neglect and lack of basic
Excerpt: "No. They would bring in, I think, a tray, but it's like they would tell me that when he would eat, the oxygen would go down. ... Because he couldn't do it by himself. ... it's like that to me, that's torture seeing food there, and you can't even eat it because you've got all this stuff on you.
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Timestamp: 00:18:58.144 - 00:19:13.009
About This Clip: Victim describes the actions of the hospital staff
Excerpt: "the evening numbers, you know, were low, so we still had to do it at nighttime. And it ... I don't really believe that just from what I was seeing from the blood work and things.
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Timestamp: 00:16:41.309 - 00:16:53.490
About This Clip: Victim mentions having to sign a form for the temp
Excerpt: "I had to sign a a form or sign something saying that they could, almost paralyze him so that he could be put on his stomach.
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Timestamp: 00:10:06.035 - 00:10:12.375
About This Clip: There is a suggestion of dehumanization when the v
Excerpt: "He's like, they just put that on me so that they don't have to mess with me.