I just opened the NY Times web page and learned a woman is hospitalized in my city with coronavirus. Apparently the hospital didn't confirm until days after she was admitted that she had the virus and she didn't travel to China. One of my best friends works in this hospital. Oof.
Health care is prohibitively expensive here, even if you have insurance. Many workplaces don't have paid sick leave. Other nations don't have these problems and yet the virus is still spreading in those places.
After the tragic Camp fire in 2018, when we had a horrible, sickening cloud of smoke overhead for 2 weeks, I bought a pack of N95 respirator masks and put them away for the next fire. I forgot about them until a few weeks ago. The same masks are now quadruple and quintuple the price online.
I'm far from being frightened but I'm putting together a worst-case-scenario dystopic pandemic emergency kit with the masks and a few other items.
I told this to a coworker today and he asked for 3 for his family. He offered to pay. I'm giving them to him tomorrow.
-Teresa
Health care is prohibitively expensive here, even if you have insurance. Many workplaces don't have paid sick leave. Other nations don't have these problems and yet the virus is still spreading in those places.
After the tragic Camp fire in 2018, when we had a horrible, sickening cloud of smoke overhead for 2 weeks, I bought a pack of N95 respirator masks and put them away for the next fire. I forgot about them until a few weeks ago. The same masks are now quadruple and quintuple the price online.
I'm far from being frightened but I'm putting together a worst-case-scenario dystopic pandemic emergency kit with the masks and a few other items.
I told this to a coworker today and he asked for 3 for his family. He offered to pay. I'm giving them to him tomorrow.
-Teresa
There is in the universe only one true divide, one real binary, life and death. Either you are living or you are not. Everything else is molten, malleable.
-Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom
-Susan Faludi, In the Darkroom
