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  2021-02-19

  The Person I Can No Longer Be

  This pandemic has been a disaster for parents. We have two adults working from home, two remote learners, and a 3-year-old. Cut off from our usual support systems, many days we feel like we are hanging on by a thread. I write a lot and have been chronicling our day-to-day activities (or lack thereof) throughout the pandemic.
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  2020-11-08

  Opening Up the Economy During a Pandemic

  The government tried to open up the US economy too early, which led to more cases and slower progress in preventing the virus than in other countries.
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  2020-07-12

  California's Failures at Testing

  California, as one of the biggest states in the country, was always going to have a challenge in managing the coronavirus. After the initial horror stories that came out of New York sounded like they were from an apocalypse novel, I was hopeful that California would rise to the challenge and try to mitigate the issues. As one of the earliest states to impose quarantine orders, things seemed to be going well. Turns out, that necessarily wasn't the case when it came to testing. This item was added TAGS v6.1.9.1. I originally searched under the hashtag #california. Within that search, I have chosen to add the following tweet because it highlights the reporting that is happening around the failures that have happened in the past concerning the virus, and how we can improve things moving forward. link to article mentioned in tweet: (https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-07-12/california-fail-coronavirus-testing-covid-start)
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  2020-04-10

  Stan's Donuts Closing

  Stan's Donuts in Westwood, Los Angeles was a long-established fixture located just outside of the UCLA campus. It is one of countless small businesses which sadly have not survived this crisis.
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  2020-04-12

  Planning is everything

  Although at one time we had the mechanisms in place to deal with a pandemic, those resources were disbanded for short sighted financial and political reasons. So, we were woefully unprepared for this pandemic. Lack of leadership worsened the situation and even exasperated the problem with negligence and outright misinformation. The long term consequences will be catastrophic. Personally I am frustrated every day as the death toll rises and the whole planet suffers. This would have been a bad thing at best, and is being made much worse by the lack of credible leadership.
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  04/03/2020

  Inside the coronavirus testing failure: Alarm and dismay among the scientists who sought to help

  “As Trump administration officials continued to rely on the flawed CDC test, many lab scientists eager to aid the faltering effort grew increasingly alarmed and exasperated by the federal government’s actions, according to previously unreported email messages and other documents reviewed by The Washington Post, as well as exclusive interviews with scientists and officials involved.“
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  2020-03-22

  How the Government Botched the Coronavirus Response (LegalEagle’s Real Law Review)

  A trial lawyer breaks down the timeline and provides an overview of the Trump administration's actions leading up to the Covid-19 pandemic and their response to it.
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  2020-03-27

  "Video reveals lung damage in US coronavirus patient: 'People need to take this seriously'"

  A video shows the lungs of a man who had been asymptomatic a few days earlier.