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Day and night, for weeks, the streets had been empty, businesses, schools, restaurants closed, no one allowed to step from their front doors, everyone forced to obey the 24-hour curfew.
A mythical place of serenity, unimaginable to most, where a woman's cares vanish.
She knew that others were suffering, but for the moment, her pillows fluffed, her coffee done exactly the way she loved it and brought to her bedside, she felt she was at the Tokyo Hilton, and the world was at peace.
A texted signal meaning "I'll live".
A silent life-affirmation, a promise of survival from someone who has been injured, is gravely ill, incapacitated or in pain.
Lying intubated in the COVID ward, she could not speak and had no strength to respond to those who were writing, expressing their concern. To each, she simply texted an olive emoji, and all was understood - "I'll live."
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The location of massively disproportionate numbers of COVID-19 infections.
By late April, it still had not occurred to anyone in government to question whether the American slaughterhouse shutdowns, due to huge numbers of worker infections, might be a signal that coronavirus was animal-borne.
A suddenly-healthy individual whose aversion to being close to other people, or - gasp! - being touched, was very recently seen as a disorder. In these stressful times he is a paragon of sanity.
I don't want to seem like a sociophobe, but please... the six-foot rule? Don't breathe on me, don't touch me, don't even look at my food!
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An expression of the utmost dignity and grace, not to be mistaken for projection when used to characterize a perceived enemy.
âI donât know what Kellyanne did to her deranged loser of a husband,â the president tweeted, âbut it must have been really bad.â
What Rush Limbaugh claimed to possess. Which says everything anyone will ever need, or want, to know about him.
"I have talent on loan from God."