![]() ![]() This anxiety led me back to the work of one of my favorite writers, fellow Texan Katherine Anne Porter, whose 1939 novella Pale Horse, Pale Rider is one of very few literary representations of the 1918 pandemic. ![]() These are important narratives, but they can short-circuit accountability for our real failures of structure and leadership, accountability we need to prepare for the next crisis. As 2021 begins with appropriate celebration over the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine, I fear that the stories we tell about the pandemic will become stories of scientific triumph, punctuated by personal grief. In November, for example, our mayor cheerfully hosted a national rodeo competition, bringing in thousands of tourists during a period when we had fewer than twenty available ICU beds countywide. ![]() Weathering the COVID-19 pandemic in Fort Worth, Texas, I’m continually dismayed by the ways that money and politics are prioritized over human life all around me. ![]()
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