Coronavirus Stories - Reaching Out From Isolation

Edited BY G P Kennedy Daniel – Ney York City, USA Spicy sesame noodles with chicken and peanuts  Ah, food. Seems like a million years ago - OK, a LOT longer than three months ago - since I got myself to the local Key Food to pick through what was left following the initial day or two of panic buying. Hatching a plan that now seems completely, bewilderingly comical, I decided I’d get enough non-perishables for two weeks of meals. I have no idea how I arrived at two weeks. I have no idea what I thought might happen at the end of the two weeks. I have a vague recollection that I thought there might actually be no food left.  But, in retrospect, a two-week supply now seems like a very childlike way of hedging one’s bets. I mean, if I’d been really concerned, I would’ve bought enough for six months (at a minimum). Not talking particularly tasty meals, but a strategic variety of canned goods that would keep us alive if the food chain suddenly went up in smoke. But I didn’t do that. ...

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Edited BY G P Kennedy  As people start to take their first tentative steps outside, our Storytellers maintain social distancing while trying to establish a new normal.  Some governments fare better than others in terms of financial assistance and clarity of message.  The week was punctuated by a national tragedy that killed nearly 100 people in one of our Story cities. The plane crash struck close to home for…   Tassy – Karachi, Pakistan  After a pretty dull few weeks it has been a tumultuous few days. We had a national tragedy a few days ago, with a plane carrying 97 passengers from Lahore crash landing in a residential locality in Karachi two minutes before landing. As the horrendous images and news emerged we found that we knew of a few people on the ill-fated flight, including parents of my husband`s colleague from work.    The news really shook the whole nation. This tragic incident happened a day before the end of the month long period of fasting...