”We’ve started to stream our services on Zoom so people can watch remotely”
“We visited more than 200 families. Our voices were raspy by the end from cheering and shouting to people on their porches”
Just when he thought he was out... they pulled him back in
“These days, people are super-hostile in the grocery stores. Everyone's scared of each other”
“We serve a vulnerable group of people. Many of our passenger require life-sustaining treatment, like dialysis or chemotherapy, and have no other way to get around”
“My grandfather’s room faces a parking lot. We decided to lift my mom up the side of the building”
“We normally speak about the potential dysfunction of spending most of your time on social media. Now we’ve done a 180”
“Early on in the pandemic, there was a lot of emphasis placed on preparing hospitals, but not for preparing long-term care homes”
“There was a lot of confusion around the rules at first. And I get it. There is definitely room for interpretation”
“It was like the midwives had never been there, except they left a baby behind”
He’s used lockdown as an opportunity to reconnect to the giant web of kinship
“People hire me me because they’re missing physical touch and intimacy in their lives. After all this isolation, I have a new appreciation for that”
“It’s our job to keep people who are using drugs alive and ensure that they don’t get Covid-19. Somehow we have to do both at the same time”
We spoke with some bar and restaurant owners to see how they’re coping.