One difficult thing about our shared COVID experience is that it wasn’t really shared, not just because of isolation but because vast numbers of people have had no voice. We’ve heard about the struggles of teachers and nurses, of government workers afraid to return to work, but what about the Vietnamese family who owned the dry cleaner in one of those shuttered office buildings? What about the 70-year-old crossing guard who suddenly had nothing to wake up for, or the drywaller who lost his business during the shutdown of construction? Where did we hear about their suicides and collapse, what
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