Life in the Time of the Coronavirus

I’m Being Held at a Border Detention Center. I’m Scared They’ll Let Us Die.

The virus spread quickly in San Diego’s Otay Mesa Detention Center. Detainees were given one mask and cleaning spray.

Gabriel Thompson
Published in
6 min readApr 22, 2020

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Photo illustration. Photo sources: The Washington Post/Getty Images, 4x-image/Getty Images

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Gabriel Thompson
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Journalist; most recent book is Chasing the Harvest, an oral history collection of farmworkers. www.gabrielthompson.org