Another powerful as-told-to dispatch by @elisaslow, from the perspective of a disabled 64-year-old former newspaper delivery driver in an Ohio nursing home desperately waiting for a vaccine as the virus creeps ever closer down the hallway. washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/12…
And no, no relation to Bruce MacGillis, as far as I know.
"The first thing I do when I wake up is look down the hallway for the big plastic sheet. That’s what they use to block off the covid area. They sectioned off a whole wing before Thanksgiving. They blocked another hallway earlier this week. That plastic sheet keeps moving closer."
Well over 100,000 of this country's Covid deaths--more than a third--have occurred among residents of nursing homes and other long-term facilities. We still haven't really grappled with that context and its many implications.
"I called the county. I called the CDC hotline. I called a few local Catholic priests. I called a # I found on FB for Dr Fauci. The OH Dept of Health finally got back after 4 or 5 days. They took down a report...I haven’t heard back. It seems like everyone has just surrendered."
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