As The World Burns: Covid, Medical Care, and the State of the Union

An essay by Sharon Astyk.

Photo by Zhen Hu on Unsplash

First published on February 8, 2023.

So, last night one of my kids and I were working on making dinner together and there was a bit of a misunderstanding. I put a pan on a cool burner to be buttered before going in the oven. Child turned the stove on, thinking that I wanted to heat it up.