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Awake with my fears in a time of pandemic NewsColony About that. We are coming up on the first anniversary of my beloved father’s death and I cannot see my mother. No, more than that. We are coming up on the first anniversary of my beloved father’s death and I fear for my also-beloved mother. We are coming up on my son’s fourth birthday and I have gone from fretting over how we were going to tell him his birthday party had to be canceled to, after reading articles like this and this , fearing that I won’t be there for his next one. I have no risk factors that I know of, but still, there’s the fear. I am telling my son again and again about the Irish potato famine—he keeps asking, kids are weird—focusing on how the reason the potato blight was so deadly was because the economy was so unequal and people were so poor, and I am thinking about how much more deadly disasters are when people are living on the knife’s edge, as too many are here and now. I am thinking about how over the ...