Death and dying is already extremely difficult, made much worse by the isolation, by the fear,

having to keep our family and friends away.

It's a challenge I never could have imagined three months ago.

This is Sarah and Beth, your listening to Pay It's You Politics, the home of Grace

Phil political conversations.

Hello everyone, welcome to another special episode of Pantsuit Politics.

We heard from so many of you that you were struggling in conversations with your loved ones

and friends about COVID-19.

We understand that there is a lot of distrust in the national media and we thought what we could do

as an independent podcast is share the stories from our community in an episode that you can share

with family and friends.

So you're not going to hear our voices much in this episode.

You're going to be hearing from the Pantsuit Politics community.

These are just listeners.

We don't know what their politics are.

We don't know where all of them live or their family situations.

We just know that they are our listeners who took time to send in these voice memos

and the only guidance that we gave is give us a minute or two about your personal experience

with coronavirus.

We are going to start with the mayor of my hometown, Brandy Harlus, who's sharing her perspective

on what it's like to be a local leader at this time.

And after you hear from Mayor Harlus, we have stories from several other listeners that we're

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