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Hello, this is Taylor Conley here, and I'm currently incarcerated in Washington State Prison. I would like to talk a little bit about my experience with COVID. Currently, I have been, uh, tested positive with, with the COVID-19, and I've had it for about a week and a half now. Um, you know, I haven't had a lot of the symptoms and different, um, health effects that a lot of other people have, but at the facility I'm currently at, there has been a COVID outbreak. And the thing is, is it's crazy because I don't think that they really understand how to deal with it. And that's why. Inside of prison, we're so enclosed and everything travels quickly. If somebody gets a cold, everybody gets a cold in the unit eventually without the facilities like people that travels fast. So with this COVID-19, as soon as it hit in here, it was a huge wave. And we've been on lockdown for the last six weeks, like I was locked in my cell for, um, you know, all day I would get to come out for 45 minutes a day. We'd get our out time to