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OK, a thread. @TheLocalhealth is usually a quarterly, but that obviously makes no sense these days. We had an entire issue ready to go that we’ve put on hold (after paying our writers in full).
With the everything changing so quickly we wanted to just stop and capture a single week. We scrambled to put this together under crazy circumstances and I couldn’t be prouder.
I wrote a quick introduction that tried to capture the feeling of last week (which already, one day later, feels like a different historical period). https://thelocal.to/last-week-in-review/
For Monday’s story, Anupa Mistry profiled a single mother without Wi-Fi who’s suddenly caught in a world where everything—school, government services, shopping, social life—is online. https://thelocal.to/monday-in-lockdown-without-wi-fi/
. @KatEschner spent all of Tuesday in Allan Gardens, watching the absurd dance between police officers enforcing social distancing and the homeless who have nowhere else to go. https://thelocal.to/tuesday-in-allan-gardens-where-police-guard-the-benches/
This feature by @WendyGlauser is the best, most intimate story I’ve read on the underappreciated, underpaid personal support workers who are struggling during this crisis. https://thelocal.to/wednesday-on-the-front-of-the-frontlines/
On Thursday, @SimonLewsen spent the day in virtual bail court, where the justice system has transformed absolutely everything in the name of public health, and then sends people into crowded jails. https://thelocal.to/thursday-in-virtual-bail-court/
. @bananafitz's day-in-the-life story on seventeen-year-old Charlotte—who’s dealing with everything the rest of us are, plus high-school stuff—is beautifully done and totally charming. https://thelocal.to/friday-with-charlotte/
. @emmafromtoronto told me that “everyone has their own personal unified theory of time now” and then wrote a brilliant essay about the weird way time moves in a global pandemic. https://thelocal.to/saturday-is-just-another-day/
And @navalang is typically thoughtful and wry writing about his decision to retreat to his parents’ hated suburban neighbourhood. https://thelocal.to/sunday-in-the-suburbs/
These are, yup, very good stories! And beautifully illustrated! Follow @thelocalhealth, sign up for our newsletter, pitch us in the future, etc. You can read the whole package here: https://thelocal.to/issue-5/
