COVID 1-year anniversary: Pandemic like a year without hugs
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
For some people, it was the year with no hugs.
For some, it was a year without church.
For others, it was the year they lost a loved one to a disease they’d never heard of before 2020.
“I miss just getting out and seeing people and going to church,” said retired nurse and Red Cross volunteer Annie Kynard-Hackworth, whose husband died of COVID-19.
“I need to hug people and actually be around them,” she said.
For others, it was the year they lost a job, or their business went under, or they had to scrape by for months with little or no income.
Mar 10, 2021
Matt Moorhead, left, looks at his wife, Alyson, as they pose for a photo outside their home, Tuesday, March 2, 2021, in Warren, Ohio. When General Motors ended a half-century of building cars in Ohio s blue collar corner, 1,600 workers had to decide whether to accept the automaker s offer to move to another factory. Moorhead went by himself in the summer of 2019 to Lansing where he paid for an apartment on top of his mortgage back in Ohio. After six months of traveling back and forth and trying to be a dad through a cellphone, his wife convinced him to quit. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
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Tom Davis poses for a photo at his motherâs house, March 2 in Niles. Davis, 39, has been home more than expected this year because of work shutdowns caused by the pandemic and supply issues. Thatâs added more worries, and comes at a time when GM is beginning a transition to making battery-powered vehicles that will need fewer workers.
By JOHN SEEWER
Associated Press
When General Motors ended a half-century of building cars in Ohio’s blue collar corner, 1,600 workers had to decide whether to accept the automaker’s offer to move to another factory.
Those with enough seniority retired. A few started new careers. Everyone else from GM’s shuttered assembly plant in Lordstown went as far away as Texas, Tennessee, and Missouri, some leaving behind their families so they could hang onto their pensions and high-paying union jobs.
‘Umbrella of stress’ on General Motors staff, 2 years after plant closed
Workers have had to grapple with the decision of whether to find new jobs, to uproot their families or move by themselves and travel home when they can.
By JOHN SEEWERAssociated Press
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Matt Moorhead looks out his window Tuesday in Warren, Ohio. He moved to Lansing, Mich., by himself in summer of 2019 when General Motors closed its Ohio factory. After six months of traveling back and forth and trying to be a dad through a cellphone, his wife convinced him to quit. Tony Dejak/Associated Press
When General Motors ended a half-century of building cars in Ohio’s blue collar corner, 1,600 workers had to decide whether to accept the automaker’s offer to move to another factory.
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Matt Moorhead, left, looks at his wife, Alyson, as they pose for a photo outside their home March 2, 2021, in Warren, Ohio. When General Motors ended a half-century of building cars in Ohioâs blue collar corner, 1,600 workers had to decide whether to accept the automakerâs offer to move to another factory. Moorhead went by himself in the summer of 2019 to Lansing where he paid for an apartment on top of his mortgage back in Ohio. After six months of traveling back and forth and âtrying to be a dad through a cellphone,â his wife convinced him to quit.