Whitney Tilson: “I walked across the street and helped build that Covid…”

“And I need to go out there with my message and say, actually for my entire adult life, I've been fighting for disadvantaged folks, working class folks like Teach for America and Kip. And when Covid hit, I didn't flee the city. I walked across the street and helped build that Covid hospital in Central Park, the field hospital, you may remember, I spent 12 hours a day for three months doing that. And I recruited 100 of my friends to help. So I've been fighting for average folks my whole life, maybe because of my childhood growing up in Tanzania, Nicaragua and having Peace Corps parents.” (25:16–25:26)

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