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16 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I heard this story, about a woman dying of #COVID19 listening to Nora Jones in the hospital, and broke down remembering how, 3 months ago, I FaceTimed my grandmother in the hospital where she was dying of covid and played her a song from her youth.
npr.org/2021/03/15/977…
She could just hear it over the loud whirring of the oxygen machine and her face lit up, a huge grin on her face. We swayed together and sang together until a nurse came in to give her more medicine. It was one of our last interactions.
My YouTube history tells me it was, in fact, this song: "You Are My Only One"
Both were favorites that I associated with her.

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Third day in a row trying to sign up for a #COVID19 #vaccine in DC. System isn't working, third day in a row. @MayorBowser @_DCHealth
The phone lines are either past capacity or down entirely, depending on when I call.
DC had a budget surplus this year. Seems like they could've used some of it to, I don't know, hire competent software developers and/or server capacity.
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I don’t know, maybe if one of DC’s local customer service billionaires *cough cough* Jeff Bezos *cough cough* stepped up the logistics of this so that the District’s residents aren’t waging what is effectively a DDoS attack on their government’s servers to get life saving vaccine
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When this is over, don't forget that neither Jared nor Ivanka stopped Trump.

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