New coronavirus mask guidelines from the C.D.C. have left Americans wondering whether they can trust one another. And it’s been a challenging year for trust.
New honor system on masks: ‘Am I to trust these people?’
For many Americans, trust is in short supply after a year of a long pandemic and the conflicts that have come with it. A man wearing a face mask walks past a sign outside Elmhurst Hospital in Queens last year. May 19, 2021 | 10:23 AM
CHICAGO When Tori Saylor, 27, stepped out of her apartment in Kalamazoo, Michigan, last week, she knew that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had already given fully vaccinated Americans the go-ahead to shed masks in most situations.
Saylor, who is vaccinated, wore one anyway. And when she summoned an elevator in her apartment building, she confronted her first real test of the new era: Twice, the doors opened to reveal people who were not wearing masks, and twice, she let the elevator go.
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Gaza, Immigration, Sinead OâConnor: Your Tuesday Evening Briefing
Hereâs what you need to know at the end of the day.
May 18, 2021
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1. Gaza is facing a full-blown humanitarian catastrophe.
The nine-day battle between Hamas militants and the Israeli military has damaged 17 hospitals and clinics. Destroyed sewage systems sent fetid wastewater through the streets. A desalination plant providing water to 250,000 people is offline. The only laboratory in Gaza that processes coronavirus tests was damaged by an Israeli airstrike.
The Times created a day-by-day reconstruction of the violence with maps, death tolls and satellite images.
There are subtle signs that Israel and Hamas may be edging toward a cease-fire, with Egypt and the U.N. working to ârestore calm,â according to a person involved in the talks. All E.U. member states except Hungary have called for an immediate cease-fire.
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