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back! This is hell.

Hell.

Your eyewitness to grief.

This. Your eyewitness to grief, this is hell and over the last three years, nearly three years ago to the day that we all went into some form of lockdown.

During that time we have all bore witness to the shared grief of the pandemic.

We have suffered the loss of loved ones,

suffered through the agony of both those who are no longer

with us and the agony experienced by those of us who have so far survived.

Despite the pandemic still claiming a reported 5,000 lives a week globally, a number that is likely significantly higher,

and nearly 7 million reported deaths again with the potential for a new variant at any moment those numbers could increase quickly

We should still take a moment to take stock in what happened to us from the very beginning of the virus infecting the first human and what impact it has had on

society and on us. We can look back at the earliest days of the outbreak when the only thing certain was the uncertainty

When the pandemic revealed all of the structural shortcomings that led to massive inequality and in the case of COVID-19 death. We can assess

what the disease reveals about us and what needs to change in order to be better

prepared for the next crisis that threatens

humanity and to react to it more effectively and more humanely.

And if we want to do that, we're going to have to do it together. In a few minutes we will have the return of and

we're really happy about this historian and writer Carrie Lee Merritt co-editor of

the collection After Life a collective history of loss and redemption and

pandemic America which she edited along with Ray Lynn Barnes and

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