A month ago I posted several digital drawings of people who were in the news about the Covid-19 pandemic. The spread of the virus continues and is actually increasing in many countries. There has been controversy and anger over required social distancing and closure of all kinds of businesses in this country, from restaurants to barber shops. There has been a lot of difficulty for the majority of us.
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| "Dr. Maldonado" |
One of the groups that has suffered most is health care professionals. Dr. Andres Maldonado was one of those front-line physicians in an Emergency Department in New York. He contracted corona-virus pneumonia but survived. The drawing above was done from his smartphone selfie, and shows him in the hospital, recovering. Many nurses and others have had similar (and often more severe, or fatal) experiences.
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| "Angry Michigan Protester" |
Others who haven't caught the virus have suffered in other ways. Many businesses have been shuttered and employees laid off. For those living from one paycheck to another the result has been devastating. Unemployment now is hovering around twenty percent, and many are understandably upset, anxious, depressed, and angry. Demonstrators have protested angrily, as did the man in the drawing above.
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| "RIP John Prine" |
It is important to remember the many who have died of the virus. In our country at the time of this writing nearly 90,000 have died. One of those was John Prine (above), a consummate songwriter and troubadour whose music made millions of people happy during the past fifty years. Although he survived cancer he died of the coronavirus last month.
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