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MY ENTIRE LIFETIME IS JUST A MOMENT TO YOU

This post is NSFW and may be upsetting to some. A young woman lies dead on a road, her life taken from her without warning and without recourse. She looks young, perhaps twenty-something. I’ve seen people her age in similar circumstances. While working at a military hospital in Myrtle Beach, SC almost forty-six years ago, two women were rushed to our emergency room. A pair of dangerous men robbed a coin or stamp collector in Charleston, SC before killing him....

Family emerges from a darkened room as pandemic ends

AFTER THE PANDEMIC ENDS (PART II)

For the past month or so, we’ve finally been able to see light at the end of the tunnel as far as the pandemic goes, thanks to the vaccines and the end of winter with more and more people spending time outdoors. India and Brazil are having difficult times at the moment and so we’re not out of the woods yet.  The SARS-CoV-2 virus may continue to be endemic to certain areas after the pandemic ends, but hopefully it will be...

Family emerges from quarantine

AFTER THE PANDEMIC ENDS (PART I)

At some point in the future, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic will end. Even now there are signs of hope as the food lines and testing lines are rivaled by people waiting patiently in a line for a vaccine.  The flu pandemic of 1918 lasted for two years and two months, and currently we are entering the second year of the current pandemic.  The longer this pandemic continues, the more our society will change, the greater the change and more permanent the change we’ll...