Just read a heartbreaking article in the NY Times about 76 deaths from COVID at a Boston veterans' nursing home. As I said yesterday, my dad is in a very well-run home. They have had zero cases. Totally locked down. No one in or out. Very expensive. I am grateful, of course I am, but I just am heartbroken that it seems like wealthy white Americans are able to weather this storm better than poorere, more vulnerable folks. It just makes me so sad that a nation that has so very much in terms of resources cannot seem to do the right thing for its vulnerable citizens. People of color. The poor. Veterans. The mentally ill. So sad. I wish it would change. It hurts my heart.
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When I was a kid, my parents moved a lot, but I always found them--Rodney Dangerfield
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