Politics & Government
Nurse At Trump Golf Course Protest: 'They're Dying Alone'
A group of city and county front line workers protested outside Trump National Golf Club in Palos Verdes Wednesday.
I asked Theresa Monroe, a nurse at LAC+USC Medical Center, why she was protesting today outside Trump National Golf Course.
— Nicole Charky (@NicoleCharky) May 6, 2020
Her response shocked me. Hear what she said about treating COVID patients and what’s happening with their families: pic.twitter.com/st9Q9859G0
PALOS VERDES, CA — Front line workers stepped out into the public Wednesday at a protest at Trump National Golf Club in Palos Verdes. The essential workers demanded federal financial relief from the Trump Administration as they continue battling the coronavirus pandemic.
Nurses, health care workers, sheriff's deputies and a group of city and Los Angeles County workers were calling on the president and administration to provide federal financial relief to keep local public sector employees from unemployment.
Los Angeles County reportedly expects a $1.3 billion loss for fiscal year 2019 -2020 and an additional $2.3 billion for fiscal year 2020-2021, according to a SEIU news release.
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Essential workers at the protest Wednesday wanted to share their stories and why support matters now more than ever.
"I'm here today because I see the suffering in the halls and family members are not allowed to see their loved ones and they're dying alone. This is something that we never saw before, in all my years, 20 years of nursing, cancer doesn't even kill you that fast," Theresa Monroe, Registered Nurse, LAC+USC Medical Center, told Patch.
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"I'm here to just plead with the president to just, you know, do the right thing. Invest in our essential workers," Monroe told Patch. "We need to have this infrastructure behind when the pandemic is over. A lot of people are so scared to come to the hospital there's a lot of people who have a stroke and they're scared. If they would have gotten there earlier they wouldn't have these lifelong problems they're exhibiting now."
It's the right thing to do, she said.
"It's for our patients, it's for our communities. Because after this, we'll still all be here," Monroe told Patch.
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