COVID has shown moral duties of citizenship
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COVID lays bare the myth of American exceptionalism in stark arithmetic: With over half a million dead, we have one of the highest per capita death rates of any nation, a ghastly truth in a country said to be the most technologically and scientifically advanced on earth.
The essentials of infection control seem better understood by people in poor countries than in the minds of millions of Americans. Even now, there are those who show a robust, even prideful ignorance about the efficacy of such standards of basic epidemic containment as masking, social distancing and vaccination.
Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter navigates pandemic times with supportive partnerships
Waterville s homeless shelter looks to improve on service as pandemic continues.
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WATERVILLE St. Patrick’s Day. March 17, 2020. It’s the day that everything changed at the Mid-Maine Homeless Shelter.
The coronavirus pandemic had just taken its first foothold in central Maine, and Katie Spencer-White remembers that day’s happenings sharply. Emotions arose, from anxiety to fear and confusion.
“It was the day we literally evacuated half of our building,” said Spencer-White, the shelter’s executive director. “In those first panic-stricken days when we had no idea how fast the virus would spread or its severity, our staff was terrified.”