‘You really don’t want to get this’: A doctor’s journey through COVID-19 and recovery
A doctor recounts the play-by-play of his bout with COVID-19. ‘You’ll be thinking about your mortality. You will pray your symptoms resolve soon.’
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Local Voices
Letters from readers on what matters in Lafayette.
LETTER: Standing up to Lafayette’s quiet racism
I have not attributed these statements to the people who made them, and there is one example that I cannot even include; it’s so unbelievable. If you recognize your own words here, I only regret that I did not act then and call you out.
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LETTER: A lazy, unimaginative, stingy and unrealistic ‘plan’
LPSS’s reopening assumes, as usual, that overworked, underpaid, underappreciated, and disrespected teachers — many of whom are at high risk for COVID-19 themselves — will pick up all the slack.
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LETTER: White friends, love is not enough
Every time something awful and important is happening in the world, I see them. They rise like unsightly blisters as I scroll through my social media: Let’s flood Facebook with POSITIVITY instead of NEGATIVITY! Or Love everyone, even those who look different from you, pray different from you, and VOTE different from you. (Vote is […]
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