Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The coronavirus \u2013 creeping onto the world\u2019s scene only a few short months ago and then exploding into our day-to-day lives. Every day we hear about the impact of corona and COVID-19 on \u2013 well, almost everyone. But how is it affecting disabled individuals? Today on Blind Abilities we explore just how blind and visually impaired individuals have experienced and adapted to corona and COVID-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In our previous episodes, we have circumnavigated the world, from Australia to Malaysia-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Elise Lonsdale:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My name is Elise Lonsdale, and I\u2019m from Northern Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chee Chau:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This is Chee Chau, from Malaysia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-England-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Steve Wicketts:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hi, my name\u2019s Steve, and I\u2019m from England.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pete: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Trinidad and Tobago-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Marlon Parieaho:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Marlon Parieaho-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-and Canada-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nick D\u2019Ambrosio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Nick D\u2019Ambrosio- <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this, the seventh episode in our series Around the World With COVID-19 From a Blindness Perspective, we come back to the United States of America-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Lori Thompson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Lori Thompson-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brooklyn Rodden Kelly:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Brooklyn-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brian Fischler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Brian Fischler-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sherry Molengraft:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-Sherry Molengraft-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our guest on today\u2019s show is Brian Fischler. Brian hails from the city of New York, which has been on a virtual roller coaster with the coronavirus. He shares his experiences with COVID-19 in the city that never sleeps from the initial onset of the virus-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governor Andrew Cuomo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-there are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York thus far-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-and through its evolution-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Man 2:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-this is just an impossible situation to manage if we don\u2019t get the equipment, we can lose lives that we could have otherwise saved-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-and now please welcome our guest, Brian Fischler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governor Andrew Cuomo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are no confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York thus far. We would expect, as time goes on, that we will find a case of coronavirus-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
-excuse our arrogance as New Yorkers, I speak for the mayor also on this one. We think we have the best healthcare system on the planet right here in New York. We don\u2019t even think it\u2019s going to be as bad as it was in other countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mayor Bill de Blasio:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We will, in the next 48 hours, hopefully sooner, get results back from the testing of this individual. My message to New Yorkers \u2013 first of all, what is clear is the only way you get it is with substantial contact with someone who already has it. You don\u2019t get it from a surface, you don\u2019t get it from glancing or a very temporary contact based on what we know now. So traditional rules of public health apply here \u2013 the vast majority of New Yorkers, they will never have a reason to have to follow that guidance-<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brian Fischler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Greetings everyone! Brian Fischler from That Blind Tech Show, and Blind Abilities here, also someone who lives in New York City, coming to you during the coronavirus, COVID-19. As someone who lived through 9\/11 in New York City and though that would be the most terrifying thing of my lifetime, corona has definitely passed that. We\u2019ve all heard stories about 9\/11, but being here during 9\/11, at least we were able to go out and be amongst friends and family, and you know, there was a lot of fear being in New York City days after 9\/11, where we\u2019d go to bars or restaurants with friends and there was no music playing, nothing, but we were around friends. Now, somebody, you know, I\u2019m not married, I\u2019m a single guy \u2013 got a guide dog here who\u2019s been getting me through this time, Wes, laying right here, which has been spectacular to have his companionship here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now this is something new, I never thought anything would be worse in my lifetime than that week of 9\/11, and the days after, but corona has, you know, it\u2019s been really scary here, you know, to be honest \u2013 every day is scary, and I think in the blindness community it\u2019s so scary because you don\u2019t know if people around you are being smart and staying six feet away and wearing masks, and unfortunately I seem to live on one of these blocks that\u2019s one of the dumbest blocks in New York, and it\u2019s not the young people, it’s older people that are hanging outside every day, just to hang out. It makes absolutely no sense to me, I\u2019ve been really good keeping to myself. The only time I\u2019ve gone out of the apartment is to really walk to dog or go to a convenience store real quickly, you know, here in New York we\u2019re fortunate where we have a lot of things such as groceries and anything you could need, you know, in a block or two walk from you. I have five restaurants or bars where I know everybody that works there and the owner all within a few blocks of where I live. I\u2019m just hoping that half of them reopen, as they\u2019ve all been shut down, some of them are doing takeout and delivery orders that serve food, some of them don\u2019t even serve food so I\u2019m really concerned for them because these are my friends.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I don\u2019t know what it\u2019s going to be like. Some states here in the United States are reopening, New York City will probably be the last place to open, and even if it does, you know, they just pushed our stay-at-home, shelter-in-place to June 13th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Newscaster (male):<\/p>\n\n\n\n The city begins the first phase of reopening today-<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Newscaster (female):<\/p>\n\n\n\n This morning, New York City crossing a major milestone in the fight against the coronavirus-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Governor Andrew Cuomo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Forget flatten the curve, I\u2019m going to change the state signs. We bent the curve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n American Newscaster (female):<\/p>\n\n\n\n Exactly 100 days since the city\u2019s first confirmed case of COVID-19, the former epicenter of the outbreak now officially entering phase one of reopening. As many as 400,000 people back on the job, stores now opening their doors for curbside pickup-<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian Fischler:<\/p>\n\n\n\n You know, before the pandemic I was a little bit of a germaphobe, now I\u2019m full-blown germaphobe, because as we\u2019ve said on That Blind Tech Show, people are disgusting, and you know, I\u2019m not fat but I\u2019m not thin, luckily I don\u2019t have any underlying conditions, so it is a concern to me, you know, I\u2019ve been thinning down during the pandemic, eating healthy, but, you know, as somebody that\u2019s not in immaculate shape, you know, I just don\u2019t want to catch this thing. I\u2019ve never washed my hands as much as I have in the last 60 days and I was a clean person, but, you know, as soon as I come in, every time I\u2019ve got a mask on, every time I\u2019m going out, and you hear people coughing, I mean, that freaks me out, when I walk past people. It\u2019s impossible in New York City not to walk past people and just hearing anybody \u2013 heck, it could even be a smoker\u2019s cough, it freaks you out and everything. You know, I noticed that I hold my breath when I walk past people, as if that will do anything, but you know, it\u2019s a very scary time and I don\u2019t know when it\u2019ll get back to normal. I mean, as we\u2019ve gotten further into this I feel a little more at ease when I go outside, that I\u2019m passing and everything, it\u2019s probably the same people I\u2019m passing every day. You know, I\u2019ve run into a few friends on the street, they all have masks on, or homemade masks and, you know, you\u2019ve just got to be smart. And hopefully I\u2019m doing that, I\u2019m doing everything they suggest to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Interestingly enough, you know, here in New York City, because our buildings are so old, we have window air condition units, and I just had a good friend of mine and I was terrified, I kept flip-flopping on which good friend of mine was going to come in that knew how to put an air conditioning unit in the window, but I kept thinking \u201cOkay, who do I think is taking this most seriously from my close friends that could do this for me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I was as CSUN, I got back- I was supposed to fly back March 18th<\/sup>. That plane ride back was not fun, the plane was mostly empty, but still, you just didn\u2019t know what was going on, and I flew back three days early, March 15th<\/sup>, I was supposed to be doing some comedy shows at the Improv, those all got cancelled, all the comedy clubs are shut down, I spoke with a lot of comics during the pandemic, and they don\u2019t know when comedy clubs will come back. I\u2019ve got a lot of friends where that\u2019s their sole income, fortunately for me I do work in web accessibility and teaching so I\u2019ve got some other things coming in, but this is unprecedented, honestly, being 60 days into this, I don\u2019t know what New York City is going to be like once we start going back out there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You know, the grocery store that I would go into all the time, I\u2019m not even comfortable going in there. It\u2019s just not a comforting feeling being around people, and it\u2019s mainly not because of my situation, you just don\u2019t know how smart these other people are being, so a lot of unsettledness. Talking with friends \u2013 I honestly don\u2019t see me sitting in a bar or a restaurant as much as I like to do that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I finally braved it and decided last week I was going to get some food from my favorite bar\/restaurant, and instead of ordering in I walked over there, it\u2019s, you know, only two blocks away, and they have like the front window open and they said \u201cHey, you want to come in for a drink?\u201d I\u2019m like \u201cIs that allowed?\u201d So I went in, and there was one other guy in there, and the barstools weren\u2019t there, you just stood there, but it felt so great, I was talking with him, you know, we were social distancing. Even though I was only there for, you know, about a half hour, had a couple drinks and then picked up my food and went home and ate it, it just felt so great to be back out amongst the living and everything. You know, when you live alone, you really get cabin fever, so to speak, and everything, and I discovered today that my zip code is the third worst in New York City for the amount of social distancing complaints, and it- yesterday it sounded like, my street sounded like Mardi Gras, so people are not social distancing, and it\u2019s just very frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I guess we\u2019ll be podcasting a lot, because I can sit in the comfort of my home office and do that. Fortunately for me, outside of the comedy a lot of work that I do I\u2019m able to do from home, so I\u2019ll be okay and I\u2019ll make it through this as long as I don\u2019t catch it and, you know, bad things happen. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Here in New York City, also, another thing I didn\u2019t think about, you know, we\u2019re all affected by it, one of my best friends here in the city, lives right around the corner from me, his father passed away, both his father and mother were sent to the hospital. Fortunately his mom is home, they just buried his father last Friday, they were only able to have about three, four people, and they couldn\u2019t even go up to the burial ground where they were burying him, I mean, everything was done at a distance. And a good friend of mine that I grew up with in Florida, his father passed away, not from corona disease, but from some other health conditions, and even their funeral \u2013 you know, it\u2019s just a crazy time, I don\u2019t think anybody could have ever imagined anything like this. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hopefully we\u2019ll all get past it, and- you know, after 9\/11, a few months after it, people were so kind, and so much nicer in New York City, and I have to think when we do get past this, because we will get past it, hopefully at least for the first few months people will be a lot nicer to each other. Anyway, that\u2019s what\u2019s going on in New York City, it\u2019s pretty frightening, it\u2019s unsettling, but we\u2019re getting through it. And, you know, us New Yorkers are tough \u2013 well, at least most other New Yorkers are tough, I\u2019m a little on the soft side, and just wanted to let you know what\u2019s been going through my head and what I\u2019ve been doing and hope everybody else is well. Take care. We are out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Governor Andrew Cuomo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We do more testing than any state in the United States, more testing per capita than any country on the globe. The testing is the key \u2013 you do the isolation, you have enough PPE, enough ICU beds, now my fear is we had today five deaths. Five deaths is the lowest number we have had since this started. We have less than 800 people in hospitals. Lowest number, basically, since we started. How does that number go up? Lack of compliance, and second, I\u2019m now afraid of the spread coming from other states, because we are one country, and people travel, and I\u2019m afraid the infection rate in the other states will come back to New York and raise that rate again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [music]<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pete:<\/p>\n\n\n\n It was great hearing from Brian, and his experiences with COVID-19 in New York City. Be sure to tune in for more episodes in our series Around the World With COVID-19 From a Blindness Perspective. And from all of us here at Blind Abilities, through these challenging times, to you, your family, and friends, stay well, stay informed, and stay strong. Thank you so much for listening, and have a great day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n [Music] [Transition noise] – Jeff Thompson:<\/p>\n\n\n\n For more podcasts with the blindness perspective, check us out on the web at\u00a0www.blindabilities.com, on Twitter @BlindAbilities. Download our app from the app store Blind Abilities, that’s two words, or send us an email at\u00a0info@blindabilities.com. Thanks for listening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you reside in Minnesota, and you would like to know more about Transition Services from State Services contact Transition Coordinator Sheila Koenig by email<\/a> or contact her via phone at 651-539-2361. Check out the Blind Abilities Community<\/a>on Facebook, the Blind Abilities Page<\/a>, and the Career Resources for the Blind and Visually Impaired<\/a> group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Full Transcript Pete: The coronavirus \u2013 creeping onto the world\u2019s scene only a few short months ago and then exploding into our day-to-day lives. Every day we hear about the impact of corona and COVID-19 on \u2013 well, almost everyone. But how is it affecting disabled individuals? 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When we share
-What we see
-Through each other’s eyes…
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