Coronavirus

How Normalizing the Pandemic Affects the Disabled — I was 19 going on 20 when the COVID-19 pandemic first swept throughout America. As a college student, we all thought we’d get an extra week of spring break. Looking back, our lives were changed in an instant. Rapidly, the idea went from “an extra week of break” to lockdowns…

Thursday, 16 March 2023 So much for having the bed to myself another night. My husband came home this morning after being exposed to The Virus at his work conference. His boss tested positive last night after spending more than five hours sitting next to him (unmasked) during meetings and…

The gently rolling waves in Lake Washington were soothing and helped to reduce my anxiety and negativity about my memories of the pandemic. Life seemed so simple before 2020. Alone, that feeling of loneliness came back after experiencing 3 years of unimaginable disruption in my life. March 11, 2020, was…

13 Retrospective Tips on How to Survive the Coronavirus 1) Don’t. (By the end of it, you’ll wish you hadn’t.) 2) Purchase enough toilet paper and booze to last you for months. The first will not make sense — it’s a respiratory virus, not a gastroenteritis virus. But people’s stupidity…

Pandemonium — Power, Politics and Ireland’s Pandemic is a joint work by two political reporters, Jack Horgan-Jones of The Irish Times and Hugh O’Connell of the Irish Independent and Sunday Independent. It is what is said on the tin: an account of Ireland’s handling of the pandemic. I experienced COVID…