“Disaster anniversaries are powerful in part because they’re communal,” writes Jacob Stern in The Atlantic. “The bomb went off in an instant. The tornado tore through town in an afternoon. The earthquake rocked the whole region at once. The pandemic, though, did not come to everyone on the same day, or even in the same […]
Our Covid Year
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UPDATED: 5 or so cases and a bizarre false positive March 13
Update March 14: Apparently when you’re aiming to create chaos, there’s no such thing as too much. Below is our story about two chaotic things the province did on Saturday, but we should have guessed there was a third brewing. In the Sunday, March 14 C19 update, the province explains that the “case reported in […]
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Our first year of living with COVID-19
December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization first heard about a cluster of cases of “viral pneumonia” in Wuhan, China. One year later, COVID-19 is directly responsible for killing more than 1,800,000 people around the planet. One year later, the United States just had its most-ever C19 deaths in a single day: 3,808 people dead. […]