It s not gone, warns widow of beloved Richmond pastor who died of COVID-19
Iâm so afraid that weâre going to lose a lot of people. not just from death from COVID, but because they could not handle it mentally.
Widow of beloved Richmond pastor who died of COVID-19 has warning : It s not gone
By: Jake Burns , WTVR CBS 6 Web Staff
Posted at 12:13 AM, Mar 08, 2021
and last updated 2021-03-08 00:21:28-05
RICHMOND, Va. The widow of a beloved Richmond pastor who died of COVID-19 just a month after the first case of the virus was reported in the Commonwealth is warning folks not to let down their guard.
From medieval times to our current crisis, plagues often accelerate extremist movements
Marc Fisher, The Washington Post
Feb. 15, 2021
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1of8Supporters of the extremist ideology QAnon wait for a Fourth of July military flyover at the World War II Memorial in D.C. last year.photo for The Washington Post by Evelyn Hockstein.Show MoreShow Less
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Since ancient times, pandemics have spurred sharp turns in political beliefs, spawning extremist movements, waves of mistrust and wholesale rejection of authorities.
SARASOTA – To be sure, no one in Mayberry was ever crushed to death beneath two falling bales of hay, nor were any of its characters killed on the way to Florida “when they collided with a truck with rebars protruding from the back.” Outsiders attempting to hijack an ATM never led Andy Taylor on a high-speed chase that ended badly when the scofflaw plowed into “some big trees that firmly stood their ground.”
Still, images of a simpler, less frenetic, small-town, unplugged throwback version of America dominate the pages of The Budget, a weekly and exclusively print edition newspaper serving the largely rural Anabaptist communities of Mennonites and Amish. The submissions come from across the U.S. and abroad. No details are too insignificant. No proverbs – “An upright man can never be a downright failure” – are too familiar.
ERIC KOLENICH
Richmond Times-Dispatch
The building for the Massey Cancer Center sits atop a hill overlooking Interstate 95 in downtown Richmond. From his first-floor office window, Dr. Robert Winn can see the cars whizzing by, Shockoe Bottom and the place where people were sold as slaves 200 years ago.
Last year, Virginia Commonwealth University appointed Winn the director of its cancer center. Among the 71 federally designated cancer centers in the U.S., Winn, 56, is the only director who is Black.
Because he grew up in a modest neighborhood in eastern Buffalo, N.Y., he approaches the role of cancer center director differently. He has a vision of bringing Massey to the Richmond community, especially its most vulnerable, and on this early December day, he explained his vision to Masseyâs junior faculty. He placed his MacBook on a stack of magazines and books, removed his mask and gazed into the camera.