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This is Lisa Strawn. I'm a trans woman. And I recently was paroled after 25 years from San Quentin. I was one of fourteen, fifteen hundred people who tested positive. I can't even begin to- I can't even begin to tell you. This fear that not just myself but everyone else, that every day, when the COVID-19 began there were only suspected cases. People keep talking about this, but it came from another prison from Chino. There's more- there's more to that. There were actually staff members that had COVID-19. They got better and they returned to work. Most of the staff members, they had access to every inmate who was going to the inmate canteen.  Inmates- it was a mandatory- we had to wear a mask, staff it wasn't. I could tell you that I tested twice, the first time it was negative, it was on June 16th. The second time, June 22nd. I never got resolved, but I had lost my sense of taste and smell. And every day they were reading names, calling out names, but people had to move and people were going man down. We were