Reuters
Though the explosion of social media and messaging apps has made our lives very public, this is not the first time that society has had to grapple with the issue of privacy. As the writer Gabriel García Márquez famously said. “All human beings have three lives: public, private and secret.”
The boundaries between these spheres and our understanding of these lines vary with time, the nature of the society to which we belong and, often, the class of society from which we are drawn. Ironically, even though we often claim to value our privacy, our actions make it clear that we don’t.
12/23/2020
West Marin is sheltered in many ways, but it was not immune to the upheavals of 2020: the social and economic impacts of the pandemic, the consequences of climate change, and the political turmoil that swept the nation.
Covid-19 cases stayed relatively low on the coast thanks to regional public health orders, but the most vulnerable were disproportionately affected, education was impeded and local businesses were injured. Coastal residents grappled with the increasing severity of California’s climate, living on a razor’s edge as the Woodward Fire burned through the Point Reyes National Seashore. Meanwhile, in a county reported to have the greatest racial disparities in the state, locals joined the movement against systemic racism and police brutality, pushing for reform.
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