Last week in Singapore, my wife tested negative for the coronavirus. Here's a short thread about what she experienced as an American living in a country hailed for its success against #COVID19. 1/7 She's 42 and healthy but had to see her physician about a nagging cough and mild chest pain. She had no recent travel or contact with known infected people or clusters, which we knew from the (abundant) publicly available information about Covid-19 cases. 2/7

Thread: In today's @latimes, a story about @KamalaHarris' grandfather, an upright Brahmin from Tamil Nadu whom she credits (along with her mother and grandmother) with inspiring her career in public service

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latimes.com/politics/story… P.V. Gopalan was a lifelong Indian civil servant, starting as a stenographer in the final years of British rule and eventually serving in a newly independent Zambia as an expert on refugee resettlement.

Here's a photo from the family. 2/