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She had to shut down her Santa Ana market for the busiest retail weekend of the year Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Pozole Sunday because of a COVID-19 scare.
It’s one thing to write about pandemic-triggered shutdowns and how they have wrecked small businesses and livelihoods.
It’s quite another to live the pain.
We shut down until everyone tested negative for the coronavirus because it was the right thing to do but, man, did it hurt.
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So I was already annoyed as I fumbled with my keys. Then, a random guy passed by and asked if I needed help. He then must’ve seen the sign on my wife’s store that told people about our temporary closure, because he mumbled something to the effect that the latest restrictions Gov. Gavin Newsom had imposed on Southern California to try to flatten the coronavirus curve again were unfair.
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On Vaccines, It’s Every Country for Itself
The race to vaccinate the world against a once-in-a-century pandemic has begun in an all-too-familiar way.
Rich nations have gobbled up nearly all the global supply of the two leading
COVID-19 vaccines through the end of 2021, leaving many middle-income countries to turn to unproven drugs developed by China and Russia while poorer states face long waits for their first doses.
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“Richer countries will be able to vaccinate . their whole populations before vulnerable groups in many developing countries get covered,” said Suerie Moon, co-director of the Global Health Center at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva.
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Column: For the Pied Piper of La Puente, no COVID-hit business is too small to tout [Los Angeles Times]
When the COVID-19 pandemic first shut down Southern California restaurants in March, Joe Bautista had an epiphany that all of us should have.
He was a local internet personality of some note who went by Man With an Appetite. On his social media accounts, the warehouse worker for a shipping company chronicled cooking and dining adventures almost indistinguishable from those of fellow foodies. Glamorous photos of grub. Selfies. A slew of hashtags.
Life as a movable feast, and little else.