The article and the podcast both talks about two different ways in which two different areas are dealing with the pandemic. In the article, it highlights the chaotic nature of the United States specifically Texas  during this pandemic. In Texas or even the US generally there’s this idea and fear about the about COVID-19 which is understandable however that fear and chaotic nature does nothing to actually solve the issue at hand. I think the issue isn’t with the hospitals or the nurses that are working incredibly hard dealing with COVID-19 currently, but with  Trump’s administration. From the very beginning, it was just handled poorly on his end. Trump had admitted to downplaying COVID-19, so when reality had hit and such in large numbers we were unequipped. Due to his ignorance, we were mislead and many Americans and hospital staffs have had to clean up the mess.Which is seen through the amounts of cases of those that are being treated in the Texas hospitals. Nurses are greatly outnumbered and there aren’t enough beds to treat the incoming patients that are coming in due to Covid. Not only that but there is this downplay  and lack of appreciation for our nurses or how important our nurses are in helping to combat and treat  COVID-19 patients. The nurses are the ones that are literally dealing with this first hand and they do not get the credit that they deserve at all in anyway shape or form. They are overworking themselves to help treat all the incoming COVID-19 patients in the best ways that they can and they aren’t  getting the recognition that they deserve or the pay.

While in Jerusalem, we see a more uplifting stance when it comes to how people are dealing with this pandemic and especially being a COVID-19 patient. We see them learn a bigger lesson than just the divide with who is sick and who is not. Through them bonding in a time where it is really chaotic, it created semblance between them even though they were “different”.They didn’t focus so much on COVID even though it is important but because they all had it and they were all aware of that, it made it easier for them to just simply live and enjoy themselves. The difference between the COVID-19 patients in Texas and Hotel Corona is the environment in which the patients were treated in.For example in Texas   you are placed in a hospital where the air and the environment is rigid and there is this tense energy where as in Jerusalem you had Covid but you are also in a hotel with other people that had similar interest.Although at times they butted heads, they still founds ways to be around and help each other. You are interacting, you are still living and maintaining a form on normalcy in the hotel. You are not social distancing  like those on the outside, so you have this kind of human interaction that is essential. Through that the patients in the Corona Hotel learned a great lesson amongst each other,I don’t think they solved all the issues in their differences between themselves but I think it was a step in the right direction because in the end they had all realized that they were one in the same.