Piedmont Hospital - just down the road from me - displaying a message of hope at the height of the pandemic.
How long will it be and what needs to happen before mothers are willing to send their children back to school?
How long will it be and what needs to happen before people are ready to board airplanes again and spend several hours in the company of complete strangers breathing recirculated air?
In the best of all possible worlds, the front-line workers - the nurses and doctors, the medical technicians and associates, the sanitation workers, the checkout clerks and cashiers, the utility workers and street-sweepers - will emerge as the new heroes, what the U.S. Marines were to Iwo Jima, what the G.I.s were to to the world wars.
The AIDS pandemic forever changed the rules of intimacy and sex. I believe this pandemic will forever change the rules of social conduct.
Lets's not go back to "normal." Fuck "normal." It never worked for many of us, anyway.
Instead, let's move forward - whatever that may turn out to mean.
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