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Listen to African-American Joseph Lemare Jr from Brooklyn, New York and now living in Shreveport, Louisiana share about working in retail in-person in New York City during the Covid-19 pandemic, catching Covid-19, and moving to Louisiana in 2022. He is of Haitian descent. He shares about catching Covid-19 and about sadly losing his frat brother to the virus.
“…They were like, yeah, you're positive." Joseph recalls. "That was when Omicron came around. So it was Omicron that I caught. So, I'm saying that, like, in my own experience it was…it was surreal, because in a sense I knew that as messed up as I felt, I did not get it to the extent those people literally needing an oxygen mask and everything… Although it sucked. I was lucky, I guess to get a lesser version of it… But I wouldn't wish it on anyone. You literally ...
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