Death from a distance: COVID-19 is denying families the right to mourn
Since the coronavirus lockdown, Margaret Konecky's life has changed dramatically.
She hasn't seen her husband in over a month. And barely seen the outside of her apartment, an apartment she's currently sharing with her two sisters.
Worst of all, Konecky lost her mother after a fall in her apartment.
In less than four months, COVID-19 has put the entire world on lockdown. As the death toll rises daily, it's easy to distance ourselves from that harsh reality, to think of it as a series of statistics. Focusing on the individual stories of those who have died, leaving family behind, is almost too much.
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One of his good friends died after a very long battle with cancer, and my dad and his friends can't travel and gather in their home state for the funeral services. They had to honor him with a damn Zoom meeting instead. It really sucks. 