Masks, But Make It Fashion
UPDATE:
If anything, the idea of helping each other trended throughout D.C., the masks and tented restaurant seating symbolic of such.
“There’s a lot of talk about what masks mean and what they represent,” said Dr. Iahn Gosenhauser, chief quality and patient safety officer for The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, earlier this spring.
“They mean and represent differing things to different people. To us in healthcare and science, masks represent virus control, virus exposure control, and that is, by far, the most important thing that we can all be doing for each other right now.”
The publisher of this site, Attorney Johnny Barnes of Living With the Law along with local community leaders including Perry Redd, Rhonda Hamilton, Keith Silver and Darlene Aisha Dancy hand delivered masks to in-need residents “across the bridge” and in Tent City.
Cora Masters Barry, wife of late Washington, D.C. “Mayor For Life,” Marion Barry, and Dr. Jehan El-Bayumi for the Rodham Institute delivered tens of thousands of masks and hand sanitizers to the D.C. Department of Recreation and the Southeast Tennis and Learning Center.
President Biden, too, of course secured masks for those in need.
PREVIOUS: We must have forgotten how to look each other in the eye. COVID-19 cases surged at the start of 2021, as did our emotions. Try as we did to leave the pandemic and all of 2020 in hindsight, variants of the virus, slow vaccine roll out, flu season, holiday gatherings and conspiracy theorists are among the reasons we have to seriously lean into our new reality.
Photo: Cole Keister