The Mortuary Science Professor Who Came ‘Out of Nowhere’ to Help N.Y.C.
With New York City funeral homes overwhelmed by the coronavirus, a professor from an upstate town has been transporting bodies so families don’t have to wait weeks for cremation services.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/nyregion/coronavirus-deaths-cremation-mortician.html
How Do I Deal With a Friend Who Thinks Covid-19 Is a Hoax?
A friend of mine whom I’ve kept in contact with over text message (we live in different countries) does not believe the Covid-19 pandemic is real. He is taking precautions and practicing social distancing, but he told me that he believes Covid-19 is a political, worldwide hoax to control people. I was flabbergasted to hear this. I tried to explain to him that the disease is no hoax: I know doctors fighting it, I know people who have contracted the virus and so on. But nothing has persuaded him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/magazine/coronavirus-hoax.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/nyregion/coronavirus-nyc.html
Metropolitan Diary: Buying wine
Dear Diary:
I was uptown on a mid-March evening some years ago. I stopped into a wine shop, picked out a couple of bottles and absent-mindedly put down my briefcase to get to my credit card.
After paying for the wine, I walked out of the shop. I was about halfway up the block when a young woman ran up to me.
“You forgot your briefcase,” she said, nearly out of breath.
I looked at her just as the heavens opened up. We stepped into a confectionary shop as the rain poured down, and I thanked her.
She smiled so sweetly that I suddenly heard myself saying, “How about coming to a party with me; it’s couples and … ”
She laughed a little, then looked at me with her head cocked, perhaps trying to figure out if I was for real.
“OK,” she said. “Maybe just this once.”