Q&A: Former Colleagues and Permission to Speak¶

Day 2 · 7:22:12 · Shawn Buckley · Eva Caven · Dean Allison · Jannine Duffy · Jennifer Britain

👩‍⚕️ Caven has little contact with former RN colleagues after four years and is building a new community circle.
📉 Allison laments a culture that ignores neighbors’ harm and withdraws friendship over disagreement.
🗣️ The chair closes by thanking her and restating the inquiry’s aim: public permission to talk so dialogue can heal.

Final exchange on workplace ties, social fracture, and the inquiry’s purpose as this window ends.

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Transcript¶

Shawn Buckley · 7:22:12

You said that you were an RN. How did your former colleagues— how do they treat you today?

Eva Caven · 7:22:19

Yeah, they would have—.

Shawn Buckley · 7:22:20

You have communication with them? Do you— has it been good?

Eva Caven · 7:22:24

Um, I kind of lost communication with them because like now it's been four years, so I'm developing new friends in my community. And, um, I'm just happy— I, I don't know, at the time when I, I was the person that only had the one shot and they would kind of look at me I, I should get the second one.

Dean Allison · 7:22:45

You know, we're in this pandemic kind of thing, right?

Eva Caven · 7:22:47

But I had the note, and I was lucky that way.

Shawn Buckley · 7:22:52

It's unfortunate that society has seemed to have changed, that people seem to think if it doesn't affect them, it's not happening, right, around them. And myself, I'd like to see society get back to—.

Speaker P · 7:23:07

I would too—.

Shawn Buckley · 7:23:08

Looking out for your neighbor, looking out for your friends. Yeah, and it seems if we don't agree with somebody, well, we can't be their friend or they can't be our friend.

Dean Allison · 7:23:16

So we're all, we're all humans in this, this world and trying to get by.

Shawn Buckley · 7:23:22

Thanks for being here and telling me your—.

Dean Allison · 7:23:23

Yeah, thank you.

Shawn Buckley · 7:23:28

Well, thank you very much. We, we really, we really appreciate you taking the time to explain, uh, what happened and talk about your injury. As I said, We're really just trying to promote dialogue and, yeah, and give some great permission to speak publicly about these things. Because as, uh, as Mike said, you know what, it's okay to disagree with your neighbors. That doesn't mean you don't have to talk to them anymore. So, right, we want to, we want to get back to where we could still agree to disagree.

Jannine Duffy · 7:23:54

That's right.

Jennifer Britain · 7:23:55

So that's right.

Shawn Buckley · 7:23:55

Thank you so much.

Dean Allison · 7:23:56

Thank you.