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COVID-19


Vaccine Miseries

John Garvey

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It all seemed so very hopeful when the cable channels were breathlessly reporting on the initial shipments of the Pfizer vaccine in the middle of December.  Remember the reports of the big UPS and FedEx trucks ...

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The DOE’s Forgotten Stepchild: NYC’s District 75 Deals with COVID-19  

Hard Crackers Editors

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District 75 is a specialized district within the NYC Department of Education. It is a completely segregated school district for special needs students between the ages of 3 and 21 including those dealing with Autism Spectrum ...

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COVID in Prison

Kadeem Johnson

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When COVID-19 hit everybody was watching the news. We all saw the spread, then the deaths that followed. The prison here seemed to be on standby for like two months before we, “the inmates,” were issued ...

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They Lost My COVID Test

John Garvey

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Almost two weeks ago, I thought that I might have been exposed to someone with the COVID infection.  I waited for a week and then my wife, Laurene, and I went to a nearby testing site—consisting ...

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2020 Election–Impressions and Reflections

John Garvey

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America appears to be divided into three more or less equal parts, at least when it comes to the election results.  Thus far, just under 78 million people voted for Biden; about 73 million voted for ...

Comix notes around Covid-19

Barthélémy Schwartz

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I started these “comix notes around Covid-19” at the beginning of the pandemic in France. It wasn’t about finding fun situations in a very dramatic situation, but to offer remarks and thoughts on what’s happening to ...

The Show Must Go On

Jarrod Shanahan

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“It’s so great that we are all together in one place,” a middle-aged white woman gushed, almost directly in my ear. “Trump was sent by God!” I had other theories, but she was right about one ...

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Mask down, fists up: a day at work in the library

James Stephens

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Like most workers, I don’t wake up in the morning thinking I’m going to get swung at while at my job. I’m a librarian, not a professional boxer or an MMA fighter. But on a Monday ...

It’s All About Me

Joshua Machlin

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One of these things is not like the other: a marriage collapses – a global pandemic takes hold. That’s what I tried to tell myself as I nosed at my overturned life like a furtive lizard ...

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Am I Allowed to Breathe?

Eric King

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Am I allowed to breathe? Is that a punishable offense? Am I allowed to feel Is that a shot? Are my thoughts read like my letters scanned and stored to be used against me later My ...