Originally Posted by
gsteinb
The grass is green in your backyard? Cool for you. Don't boast about it, because it's not like that here.
Indeed, I can attest in the Boston area things are bad. My wife works in education in a school in one of the tougher hit cities directly outside of Boston (which also happens to be majority Latino population) and she gets notified of every diagnosis involving her students' families (as well as hospitalizations among them). It's the most densely populated town in the state and folks are working class, so they don't get the luxury I do of working at home full time. My parents live about an hour south of me and told me that a married couple they knew passed away within a day of each other because they caught the virus from a visiting home worker. I am generally not a sky is falling type of person, but stuff is real at the moment.