The Community, Issue 4: Part 2.2

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Panel 1: We move to a shot of Winnie taking a few steps toward the door from her position in the previous page.

WINNIE

(to herself, deep sigh)

Crap...back into the battlefield.

Panel 2: Cut back to the Nurse still standing in the doorway from the end of the previous page. They don't say anything in response to the statement, merely shrugging with a defeated look on their face. You can see Ms. Letesha's response pop in from the lower right corner of the panel view: a "SIGH!" that is made of a jagged and angry font befitting the young woman's mood.

Panel 3: Winnie and Luan arrive a short time later to a wall with a yellow tape border going from top to bottom. To the right of that border (where our protagonists are standing), you can see a couple of plastic bags filled with masks.

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(Winnie)

"Any update from the town council about fresh PPE? We've been waiting over a week for it to arrive."

Panel 4: Slight close-up on the bags that were partially seen in the background; one labeled "Clean" (1/2 full) and "Need to Clean" (a little under 1/2 full. You can also see a couple of more bags next to them with the same labels consisting of plastic scrubs.

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(Nurse)

"Sorry. Still another week out."

Panel 5: Cut to a shot of the two of them- fully covered with mask and extra gowns- standing at the border into the quarantine zone; the same yellow tape at their feet lining the border on the floor as it was at the wall in Panel 3.

LUAN

(optimistic, to Winnie)

We've survived this long without getting infected. We can stick it out as long as needs be, as long as we can.

WINNIE

(nods, with a nervous glint in her eyes; to Luan)

Yeah. Hopefully...

Panel 6: We jump to a shot of Winnie at work in the first room; the glint of the ceiling light visible in the top of the panel view, illuminating part of the tile floor in the bottom of the panel.

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(Narrator)

"The optimism served as a sufficient buoy for her the rest of that day."

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Panel 1: A montage of the young woman going through different rooms over a pocket of time. In this shot, she's covered up in PPE and just as steady and hopeful as the end of the last page.

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(Cont., Narrator)

"But as the days and weeks piled up..."

Panel 2: In another shot, we see her pulling the sheet over one of the patients that had passed away as a result of the virus. The PPE that she has on is a little more stacked on and elaborate than before.

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(Cont., Narrator)

"Along with the bodies, that feeling moved further and further away; the concept of a 'good thing' becoming a concept of hope rather that certitude."

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(Cont., Narrator)

"And so she shifted, like millions of other souls the world over in her profession in those early months of the pandemic, to survival mode."

Panel 3: In an interlude to the montage, we see a shot of her father in the late '70s alongside members of the Umkhonto we Swize watching an IED explode at a base belonging to the ruling Apartheid South African government at the time.

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(Cont., Narrator)

"Fortunately she was well equipped for the task courtesy of the stories told by her revolutionary father."

Panel 4: In the next shot, she is working on a set of oxygen tanks operating to keep the line of patients kept in the hallway alive. At this point, the weariness is readily visible in her eyes along with deep bags. Just like Panels 1 and 2, the PPE Winnie has on is steadily more elaborate to protect her from the virus.

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(Cont., Narrator)

"Except for the concepts of sleep and luck. Those she tried to pull together on her own."

Panel 5: Slight close-up on her a few moments later, doing the same work on one of the tanks; her focus though is pulled to the left by the sound of coughing.

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Four Months Later- 4/16/2020

WINNIE

(concerned, to Luan)

You okay over there?