Looking Back: A Pandemic Diary

We Missed the Signs a Year Ago, and Too Many Still Refuse to Take the Pandemic as Seriously as They Should

This is part of a larger project. While it is a new piece, it likely will be placed near the beginning as a sort-of Prologue.

A local playground is closed because of the virus. Officials have taped it off.

“Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that usually cause mild to moderate upper-respiratory tract illnesses,” says the NIH (https://www.niaid.ni…