I Refuse to Kill People by Pretending Things Are Fine
Normal life isn’t coming back. To pretend otherwise is deadly.
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7 min readMay 20, 2020
The few times I’ve gone out to “enjoy” a nonessential service since shelter-in-place began in Chicago, I’ve found it to be an intensely guilt-ridden, hollow experience. Buying a coffee, getting a sandwich, shopping for clothes at Target when I didn’t really need to — I…