  All That We've Lost The dead tonight, as I write, number 317,816. A figure too big to grasp but one that'll seem small when you read this. Just a snapshot, a screen grab, to mark that which is passing. All we can do is say, "This is what loss feels like now," and then, again, moments later (two dead a minute): "Now."
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Or at least that many, since there are those left uncounted and also the deaths that experts call "excess," beyond the norm for its category—suicide and overdose, alcohol poisoning and domestic violence, car accidents and the deaths of those who couldn't get the care they needed for cancer or cardiac disease, those with scarred hearts—as I have—who this past year felt the familiar ache but rather than risk a COVID-crowded hospital told themselves it was nothing.   What Happens After This? A year has passed and it feels like 100 years and none at all. We are all bodies out of time now. This is the anniversary week of the start of our indoor year, a year lived on loop, riding a Mobius strip made from razor blades, shaving us down to near nothing over the course of 365 endless days. We lived our lives indoors, we lost our lives indoors, we were alone, abandoned by a president who only cared about his reelection prospects. We learned to work at home. We taught school. We made masks. We hoarded toilet paper and baked bread. We supported each other in a million tiny ways because no one else would. We thought it would end. It didn't. We lost jobs, we lost lives, we lost hope a thousand times over. The longest year, every day a year. We said goodbye over Zoom; we worked our jobs on Zoom; we went to school on Zoom; we visited family on Zoom. I dream in Zoom sometimes, either that or being somewhere without a mask. The two indelible dreams of the indoor year. We're entering another spring of unknowns, of anxiety, of waiting. But the questions are different now: Instead of wondering how bad it will get, we're asking when the vaccine will end up in our arms, when we might hug a friend, when we can leave the indoor year behind. We are wondering how good will it get? Dan Sinker reflects on the year behind us, and what we're left to deal with.
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Sunday, March 14, 2021
All That We’ve Lost
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