This is America: We're all (still) tired
Mabinty Quarshie
It’s been more than a year of living in a pandemic that’s upended everyone’s lives. Yes, vaccines are more widely available now in the USA. And more people are actually getting vaccinated if they want to. But people are still getting COVID-19 and dying.
You know, not to be the downer or anything.
I’m Mabinty, a politics editor at USA TODAY and your resident realist. You're reading "This is America," a newsletter centered on race, identity and how they shape our lives.
This is our America: We're all wrestling with how to reintegrate into a new normal (while people are dying – and while many in some communities are skeptical of the vaccine that could save their lives). We're anxious about what the future holds. And the reality is that we're more than a year into this pandemic and also more than a year into promised systemic reckonings.