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Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa.
When Lorain and Mark Sabad retired in March 2019 she was 58 and an office manager, he was 59 and a contractor with the Canadian Armed Forces, having retired from active duty a decade earlier they intended to do a lot of travelling and golf together. The summer before, Lorain had been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, but Mark says she refused to let that slow her down.
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Each day since COVID-19 entered our lives has been accompanied by worrying, and wearying, lists of numbers: case counts, infection rates, tests administered, hospital admissions, deaths. The figures, dispassionate and detached, become a blur, and the importance of what lies behind them is increasingly forgotten. In a special obituary project, we will memorialize and recount the stories of just some of the nearly 400 names and faces behind COVID’s deathly toll in Ottawa.
When Lorain and Mark Sabad retired in March 2019 she was 58 and an office manager, he was 59 and a contractor with the Canadian Armed Forces, having retired from active duty a decade earlier they intended to do a lot of travelling and golf together. The summer before, Lorain had been diagnosed with pulmonary fibrosis, but Mark says she refused to let that slow her down.