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Increasingly, she’s been hearing from her regular cancer patients, and otherwise healthy people, who are afraid of dying from COVID-19.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really want control over their end of life,” said DeWolf, a nurse with \u003ca href=\"https://bayareaendoflifeoptions.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bay Area End of Life Options\u003c/a>. “They don’t want to be whisked into a system that’s already overwhelmed and be ventilated and possibly be away from their family members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Healthy callers are asking for advice about how to write into their advanced directives for medical care that they want to take life-ending medication if they became ill from the coronavirus to ensure a quick, peaceful death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mike Ellis, a retired engineer who lives in Petaluma\"]‘Death in America has become inhuman and antiseptic. 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Patients also have to be physically capable of ingesting the medication themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These rules make most people who contract COVID-19 ineligible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What I commonly say to them is that medical aid in dying isn’t likely going to be an option for you,” DeWolf said of her interested callers. “By the time you’re terminal from coronavirus, you’re probably unconscious, and you don’t have capacity to make medical decisions.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social workers at \u003ca href=\"https://www.deathwithdignity.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Death with Dignity\u003c/a>, a national advocacy organization based in Portland, Oregon, have also been answering a steady increase in calls about the coronavirus. About 80% come from people who want these medications “just in case” the pneumonia they have proves to be the coronavirus, or so they can “be ready,” Executive Director Peg Sandeen said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This kind of grassroots interest could influence future legislation. The group was sponsoring death with dignity bills in New York, Maryland and Massachusetts before state legislatures closed down because of the pandemic. They have plans to add another three states to their efforts next year. 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He has Lou Gehrig’s disease, also called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, which attacks nerve cells that control the muscles.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He’s already been through all the steps to qualify for medical aid in dying. He believes he’s got a couple of months left to live, but under the law, he can take the medication whenever he wants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If I got the coronavirus, I’d probably want to initiate it right then,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis, 64, was diagnosed with ALS three years ago and has since lost his ability to bike and to walk. Eventually, he’ll no longer be able to eat, talk or breathe on his own. But Ellis isn’t interested in sticking around for a death like that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Death in America has become inhuman and antiseptic,” he said. “I didn’t want to be put on a ventilator, to be bedridden and to end my life that way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellis wants to decide when enough is enough. For him, he says that will be when he’s unable to transfer himself from his wheelchair to his bed or the toilet on his own, or when he can’t eat his wife’s “incredible” cooking and needs a feeding tube.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This disease has taken so much from me, robbed me of so many things,” he said. “This is the one last thing that I – I want my hand on that lever.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Ellis gets COVID-19, he is guaranteed to die from it, according to his doctor, Lonny Shavelson. His respiratory system is already too weak. 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Voting began on April 1 and continues through May 15, even as key details including the timing and final amount of the payment remain under negotiation with PG&E. The plan requires support from two-thirds of the fire survivors who vote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11813173/attorney-for-pge-fire-victims-funded-by-wall-street-firms-hes-negotiating-against\">Watts acknowledged to KQED\u003c/a> that his credit line includes financing from Wall Street interests negotiating against the fire victims Watts is representing in the case. Those firms stand to reap a financial windfall if the plan passes. 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Kane also wants the 13,000 “yes” votes Watts’ clients have cast so far to be thrown out for those who don’t grant their consent to their attorney’s financial ties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kane represents Camp Fire victim Karen Gowins, who last month joined two other survivors in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11808826/fire-survivor-resigns-in-protest-from-pge-bankruptcy-committee\">resigning from the official survivors’ committee in the bankruptcy\u003c/a> so she could publicly oppose the plan. At the time, Gowins told KQED she was not allowed to voice her opposition as long as she remained on the committee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts represents 16,000 clients out of an estimated 70,000 claimants, and maintains that all the votes should be counted. He told KQED he informed clients about the financial ties at in-person town hall meetings in Santa Rosa and Chico in December. His team then shared videos of those meetings electronically with clients, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But that’s not enough under California State Bar rules, according to Western State College of Law professor Kevin Mohr, who sits on the Bar’s task force in charge of educating members on professional conduct guidelines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sharing it at a town hall is a disclosure, but there’s no evidence that clients have understood that disclosure,” Mohr told KQED. “You have to obtain informed written consent of all affected clients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Watts told KQED last week that he didn’t know about the financing arrangement when it was made by a broker. He said he learned of it once he became heavily involved in negotiating the settlement between PG&E and his clients. He maintains the funding did not influence negotiations. In a filing Tuesday, Watts said the law calls for written disclosure, which he says he provided to clients, but not written consent. 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Nonetheless, they say some callers are referencing the coronavirus and the utter upheaval of the stay-at-home order as their inspiration to quit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke with a gentleman last week who is seriously taking this time to reorganize his life,” said Nallely Espina, a counselor with the helpline. “He’s setting a new routine for himself at home and staying away from his smoker friends, which was one of his main triggers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another smoker, in his mid-20s, was prompted to call after he read a news article about how young people who smoke could have more severe health complications if they contract the virus, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>About half of Espina's callers are using the time at home to revamp their habits, starting yoga, meditation and eating a healthier diet, she said. But the other half are supremely frazzled, being trapped inside with their families.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Espina helped one dad come up with some new coping strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Going outside and having that cigarette, it’s his time out from the kids,” she said. “So for him, we decided let's still go outside, but instead of having a cigarette, maybe you spend those minutes doing a few pushups and burpees. And he loved that idea, he went for it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California public health agencies are incorporating information about the link between smoking and the coronavirus into their social media and public outreach \u003ca href=\"https://www.nobutts.org/covid\">messages\u003c/a>, building on a 30-year legacy of aggressive anti-smoking campaigns and policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the first state to ban smoking on airplanes and in restaurants and bars, and over the years has added numerous other public spaces to that list, making smoking logistically difficult and culturally unpopular. As a result, it has the second-lowest smoking rate in the country — \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/statesystem/cigaretteuseadult.html\">11.3% of the population\u003c/a> — after Utah, where Mormon values are attributed with keeping smoking to 8.9%.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Pondering Smoking’s Role in Spread and Severity\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>While health advocates are nudging smokers to quit, some researchers are also pondering whether California’s low-smoking rate will have any impact on how the state fares through the pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a really great question,” said Ruth Malone, a professor emerita of nursing at UCSF, who has studied tobacco control for 20 years. “Smokers do much worse if they contract the virus, which is not too surprising given that it attacks lung tissue. There is also some new research suggesting that it might even promote transmission because of the particular pathways that it hooks onto.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Proving a correlation would require sophisticated modeling to isolate smoking as a risk factor from the many other factors that seem to contribute to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e4.htm?s_cid=mm6915e4_x\">geographic differences\u003c/a> in the spread and severity of the virus. 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[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tobacco-control advocates are calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to collect more robust data on the connection between smoking and the coronavirus. The development of a reliable and widely available coronavirus antibody test could also help characterize the connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Once we start doing very robust antibodies studies, we'll be able to take a population of people infected and see how many of them are smokers versus nonsmokers. Then you could see what the morbidity in each group is,” said Swartzberg. “That study would be very simple to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Figuring out if low smoking rates contribute to a reduction of overall infections would be harder, requiring more complex models that can control for other potential factors. For example, the smoking rate in New York City — the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic in the U.S. — is roughly the same as in California. That could either invalidate the idea that a low-smoking rate would be protective, experts say, or it indicates that smoking is just one of many variables that influence the impact the outbreak has at the population level.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ruth Malone, UCSF professor emerita of nursing\"]'Smokers do much worse if they contract the virus, which is not too surprising given that it attacks lung tissue.'[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We went to physical distancing policies and closing nonessential businesses a few days earlier than New York. I think those were a critical few days,” said John Balmes, a pulmonologist and professor of medicine at UCSF. “Also, we’re less densely populated than many of the eastern and Midwestern cities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the other hand, California has a large homeless population, where close quarters and poor sanitation give the virus greater chance of spreading. 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"content": "\u003cp>Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.tess-taylor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tess Taylor\u003c/a> for a hike on a steep hill near her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of those perfect California days: warm; dappled sun; early spring flowers popping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything looked and smelled tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many smells to love here, like rosemary or Ponderosa pine needles in the sun,\" said Taylor, as we hiked up the steep gravely trail to the summit. \"All of these are very specific California smells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies and a fire hydrant — among the many signs of natural and manmade activity on our hike. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But every few steps we saw signs of mankind’s interference with nature: chain link fences; \u003c/span>“No Trespassing” signs; the scarred remains of an old quarry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people came to California and were settling it, they just kind of ripped this hillside open,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggressive contrast between California's beauty and its many natural and manmade hazards forms the backbone of Taylor’s poetry collection, \"Rift Zone,\" which is out this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wrote these poems before the coronavirus pandemic made life even more precarious for Californians. But the poet’s words speak powerfully to the present moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor — whose resume includes reviewing poetry for NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, winning national awards and appearing in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other publications — grew up in the town of El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poet Tess Taylor released her poetry collection \"Rift Zone\" this month. \u003ccite>(Taylor Schreiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I moved into one of these little bungalows and went to the elementary school across the street,\" Taylor said. \"Everybody that we knew was a retired shipyard worker from the Richmond shipyards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left for college in the 1990s, and then settled for a while in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had grown up thinking, I'm done with El Cerrito,\" she said. \"I'm never coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after about 13 years, the Golden State did lure Taylor back. By that point, she'd gotten married and was pregnant with her first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suddenly, all I wanted was to be home in California near a lemon tree. That's what I dreamed of,\" Taylor said. \"And so we did that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sunny California lemons still smiled on the tree. But Taylor also saw life here had gotten a whole lot tougher, especially for those less fortunate than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jammed on a freeway forever and ever,\" Taylor said. \"So much inequality. Watching people be unable to continue to make rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California Suites,\" a cluster of four poems in \"Rift Zone,\" speaks to the whiplash Taylor felt upon returning to her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>hurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said she wrote \"Rift Zone\" during what she saw as a decade of state and national upheaval — years marked by devastating wildfires, escalating gun violence, the persistent lack of a social safety net and the profound, disorienting feeling of insecurity that comes with all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book jacket for \"Rift Zone,\" Tess Taylor's new poetry collection, published by Red Hen Press. \u003ccite>(Red Hen Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The feeling that we are living on a fault line, that we are living in a time when things feel like they're wrenching and twisting,\" Taylor said. \"And this is a Californian feeling. But it's also a world feeling, our national feeling of being on the brink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the top of the hill, the landscape unfolded before us: shipyards; an oil refinery; trains whistling through the suburbs; the waters of the San Francisco Bay; far off in the distance, a view of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took it all in, then set off on our way back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the coronavirus, Taylor would be on a book tour right now, traveling to appear at 45 events across three countries. When we recently reconnected over video chat, she told me these have all been canceled or postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a big sandcastle: 10 years of work and then just watching it go away from you in a way that you sort of can't control,\" she said. \"And in another way, it feels like, how dare I grieve this 10-year book of poetry when there are so many other things to grieve?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our conversation sent my thoughts back to the day of our hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we set off, we stood gazing up at a pair of enormous redwood trees in the poet’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing quite like measuring your life against a redwood tree,\" Taylor said. \"It really sort of puts everything in perspective, doesn't it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those redwoods figure prominently in \"Rift Zone.\" And in the ensuing weeks since Taylor showed them to me, their symbolism has grown even more, as in this extract from \"California Suites\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your new house \u003c/em>\u003cem>is younger\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>than your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottle brush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the redwoods in her backyard are only around 80 years old. In 1,000 years, they’ll still be standing — barring chainsaws and blights. And the events of 2020 will be buried deep in their rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone,\" or to buy an ebook or paperback copy, click \u003ca href=\"https://aerbook.com/maker/productcard-5513837-1458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the four entire poems that make up \"California Suites,\" from Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CALIFORNIA SUITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. Rainy Season\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season of mud, of swollen gullies,\u003cbr>\nstorms lashing off the Pacific, flinging\u003cbr>\nwet across our solstice months.\u003cbr>\nWe call this bitter damp the winter\u003cbr>\nbut it is different than rosy cheeks or blizzards\u003cbr>\nor catalogs of kids in reindeer sweaters:\u003cbr>\nOur winter turns the hillsides emerald.\u003cbr>\nSuburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\nhurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003cbr>\nNow ferns glisten, redwoods blacken.\u003cbr>\nNow cold buckeye seed & lemons come.\u003cbr>\nIn rain, streets grow riverine,\u003cbr>\nferrying our cargo to the ocean.\u003cbr>\nO cold spray & green reclaiming:\u003cbr>\nIn you, we are all tributaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>II. Sempervirens\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-California Redwood\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have no old cathedrals here\u003cbr>\nexcept for redwood groves\u003cbr>\nthat wait in parks\u003cbr>\nbehind brass plaques. Signs\u003cbr>\ndate the oldest to Columbus or\u003cbr>\nWilliam the Conqueror;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>new roads wind to suburbs\u003cbr>\nthat replace them. The plaques\u003cbr>\nare odd, as if we lack\u003cbr>\nanother way to hold in mind\u003cbr>\ntheir presences—\u003cbr>\neons\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>passed in widening,\u003cbr>\nhosting murrelets & owls.\u003cbr>\nThey carve the real estate\u003cbr>\nof centuries. They calendar\u003cbr>\nthe former climate’s fires.\u003cbr>\nWhite settlers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>cut them down\u003cbr>\n& made them cheap\u003cbr>\n& turned them back\u003cbr>\ninto a luxury.\u003cbr>\nNow we stroke their burls\u003cbr>\nwith short-lived hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They model wise economy.\u003cbr>\nEach ring is still a living record,\u003cbr>\na transitive, ongoing,\u003cbr>\ngiant conjugate for being\u003cbr>\nrhyming out\u003cbr>\ninside its own slow time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They widen now\u003cbr>\nas ripples do\u003cbr>\non deep & pooling streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>III. El Camino Real\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The corridor parades its stucco newness.\u003cbr>\nWhat king was it that built this highway?\u003cbr>\nJornaleros in wide bucket hats\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>wait for hire beneath the onramps.\u003cbr>\nBlocks fill with retirees from somewhere colder.\u003cbr>\nChapped garages hold canned food & water\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>hoarded against sure disaster.\u003cbr>\nIn sharp heat, the lava gardens bleach.\u003cbr>\nThe man a few blocks over with his lettuces,\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>raw twang & melanomic skin\u003cbr>\nsaw me walking with my infant son.\u003cbr>\nHe said \u003cem>hey lady, keep in mind\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I have a gun. You can take my lemons if I offer,\u003cbr>\nbut steal em—bam—you’ll know who’s boss.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>IV. Escrow\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In every sale, a list of ways\u003cbr>\nyour home could be destroyed.\u003cbr>\nFlood, earthquake, fire.\u003cbr>\nYour house may end in mudslide,\u003cbr>\nbe damaged by a rain of golf balls;\u003cbr>\nyou may live downwind of poison breezes\u003cbr>\noff oil fields, refineries, or croplands.\u003cbr>\nYou must assert you have\u003cbr>\nconsidered agricultural toxins; the risk\u003cbr>\ninherent in tectonic plates.\u003cbr>\nSigning on the dotted line allots you\u003cbr>\na postcard plot of Golden State. Will\u003cbr>\nit be cancerous? God-willing\u003cbr>\nnot to you. Your new house is younger\u003cbr>\nthan your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottlebrush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Shortly before the state of California ordered its citizens to retreat indoors, I met up with poet \u003ca href=\"https://www.tess-taylor.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tess Taylor\u003c/a> for a hike on a steep hill near her home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was one of those perfect California days: warm; dappled sun; early spring flowers popping.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Everything looked and smelled tangy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There are so many smells to love here, like rosemary or Ponderosa pine needles in the sun,\" said Taylor, as we hiked up the steep gravely trail to the summit. \"All of these are very specific California smells.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813218\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11813218\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1832x1374.jpg 1832w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1376x1032.jpg 1376w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-1044x783.jpg 1044w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-632x474.jpg 632w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42848_IMG_3878-qut-536x402.jpg 536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">California poppies and a fire hydrant — among the many signs of natural and manmade activity on our hike. \u003ccite>(Chloe Veltman/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But every few steps we saw signs of mankind’s interference with nature: chain link fences; \u003c/span>“No Trespassing” signs; the scarred remains of an old quarry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When people came to California and were settling it, they just kind of ripped this hillside open,\" Taylor said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aggressive contrast between California's beauty and its many natural and manmade hazards forms the backbone of Taylor’s poetry collection, \"Rift Zone,\" which is out this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She wrote these poems before the coronavirus pandemic made life even more precarious for Californians. But the poet’s words speak powerfully to the present moment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor — whose resume includes reviewing poetry for NPR's \u003cem>All Things Considered\u003c/em>, winning national awards and appearing in The New York Times and The Atlantic, among other publications — grew up in the town of El Cerrito, just north of Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813219\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813219\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut.jpg 480w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-160x160.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42850_Tess-Taylor-Taylor-Schreiner-qut-470x470.jpg 470w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The poet Tess Taylor released her poetry collection \"Rift Zone\" this month. \u003ccite>(Taylor Schreiner)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"I moved into one of these little bungalows and went to the elementary school across the street,\" Taylor said. \"Everybody that we knew was a retired shipyard worker from the Richmond shipyards.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She left for college in the 1990s, and then settled for a while in New York.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I had grown up thinking, I'm done with El Cerrito,\" she said. \"I'm never coming back.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after about 13 years, the Golden State did lure Taylor back. By that point, she'd gotten married and was pregnant with her first child.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Suddenly, all I wanted was to be home in California near a lemon tree. That's what I dreamed of,\" Taylor said. \"And so we did that.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those sunny California lemons still smiled on the tree. But Taylor also saw life here had gotten a whole lot tougher, especially for those less fortunate than herself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Jammed on a freeway forever and ever,\" Taylor said. \"So much inequality. Watching people be unable to continue to make rent.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"California Suites,\" a cluster of four poems in \"Rift Zone,\" speaks to the whiplash Taylor felt upon returning to her home state.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Suburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>hurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said she wrote \"Rift Zone\" during what she saw as a decade of state and national upheaval — years marked by devastating wildfires, escalating gun violence, the persistent lack of a social safety net and the profound, disorienting feeling of insecurity that comes with all of that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11813220\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 426px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11813220\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut.jpg 426w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/RS42849_RiftZoneCVR-300-dpi-8.22-qut-160x240.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The book jacket for \"Rift Zone,\" Tess Taylor's new poetry collection, published by Red Hen Press. \u003ccite>(Red Hen Press)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"The feeling that we are living on a fault line, that we are living in a time when things feel like they're wrenching and twisting,\" Taylor said. \"And this is a Californian feeling. But it's also a world feeling, our national feeling of being on the brink.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Standing at the top of the hill, the landscape unfolded before us: shipyards; an oil refinery; trains whistling through the suburbs; the waters of the San Francisco Bay; far off in the distance, a view of Mount Tamalpais.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We took it all in, then set off on our way back down.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it weren’t for the coronavirus, Taylor would be on a book tour right now, traveling to appear at 45 events across three countries. When we recently reconnected over video chat, she told me these have all been canceled or postponed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It's like a big sandcastle: 10 years of work and then just watching it go away from you in a way that you sort of can't control,\" she said. \"And in another way, it feels like, how dare I grieve this 10-year book of poetry when there are so many other things to grieve?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Our conversation sent my thoughts back to the day of our hike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Before we set off, we stood gazing up at a pair of enormous redwood trees in the poet’s backyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There's nothing quite like measuring your life against a redwood tree,\" Taylor said. \"It really sort of puts everything in perspective, doesn't it?\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those redwoods figure prominently in \"Rift Zone.\" And in the ensuing weeks since Taylor showed them to me, their symbolism has grown even more, as in this extract from \"California Suites\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Your new house \u003c/em>\u003cem>is younger\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003cem>than your mother.\u003cbr>\nAt your bottle brush,\u003cbr>\nnative hummingbirds.\u003cbr>\nBehind them, two huge redwoods wait.\u003cbr>\nIn redwood years, these trees\u003cbr>\nare babies. They overlook\u003cbr>\nyour fragile real estate.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Taylor said the redwoods in her backyard are only around 80 years old. In 1,000 years, they’ll still be standing — barring chainsaws and blights. And the events of 2020 will be buried deep in their rings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>To find out more about Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone,\" or to buy an ebook or paperback copy, click \u003ca href=\"https://aerbook.com/maker/productcard-5513837-1458.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are the four entire poems that make up \"California Suites,\" from Tess Taylor's \"Rift Zone\":\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CALIFORNIA SUITES\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I. Rainy Season\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Season of mud, of swollen gullies,\u003cbr>\nstorms lashing off the Pacific, flinging\u003cbr>\nwet across our solstice months.\u003cbr>\nWe call this bitter damp the winter\u003cbr>\nbut it is different than rosy cheeks or blizzards\u003cbr>\nor catalogs of kids in reindeer sweaters:\u003cbr>\nOur winter turns the hillsides emerald.\u003cbr>\nSuburbs reveal thoughtless paving; drains\u003cbr>\ngargle now where salmon spawned.\u003cbr>\nPlum blossoms eddy\u003cbr>\nnext to candy wrappers.\u003cbr>\nBetween storms, the light is mercury.\u003cbr>\nHuge wet sets hillsides careening,\u003cbr>\nhurtling down what fault line just thrust up.\u003cbr>\nNow ferns glisten, redwoods blacken.\u003cbr>\nNow cold buckeye seed & lemons come.\u003cbr>\nIn rain, streets grow riverine,\u003cbr>\nferrying our cargo to the ocean.\u003cbr>\nO cold spray & green reclaiming:\u003cbr>\nIn you, we are all tributaries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>II. Sempervirens\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>-California Redwood\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have no old cathedrals here\u003cbr>\nexcept for redwood groves\u003cbr>\nthat wait in parks\u003cbr>\nbehind brass plaques. Signs\u003cbr>\ndate the oldest to Columbus or\u003cbr>\nWilliam the Conqueror;\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>new roads wind to suburbs\u003cbr>\nthat replace them. The plaques\u003cbr>\nare odd, as if we lack\u003cbr>\nanother way to hold in mind\u003cbr>\ntheir presences—\u003cbr>\neons\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>passed in widening,\u003cbr>\nhosting murrelets & owls.\u003cbr>\nThey carve the real estate\u003cbr>\nof centuries. They calendar\u003cbr>\nthe former climate’s fires.\u003cbr>\nWhite settlers\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>cut them down\u003cbr>\n& made them cheap\u003cbr>\n& turned them back\u003cbr>\ninto a luxury.\u003cbr>\nNow we stroke their burls\u003cbr>\nwith short-lived hands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They model wise economy.\u003cbr>\nEach ring is still a living record,\u003cbr>\na transitive, ongoing,\u003cbr>\ngiant conjugate for being\u003cbr>\nrhyming out\u003cbr>\ninside its own slow time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They widen now\u003cbr>\nas ripples do\u003cbr>\non deep & pooling streams.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>III. 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In a recent survey of its members, 50% of doctors said they’ve had to lay off fellow physicians, nurses and office staff because of the downturn, and 11% closed down temporarily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Liston specializes in corneal transplants, but he hasn’t done one in weeks. He shut down his surgery center, furloughing 90% of the surgery staff, and the medical office where he does eye exams is only open in the mornings now. The four doctors who own the business suspended their own salaries for March and are considering the same for April.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We didn’t pay ourselves because we needed to make certain that we have enough cash reserves to be able to weather this,” Liston said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They have had to weather a lot. 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That could leave patients scrambling to find a primary care doctor, a pediatrician or a psychiatrist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Medical Association is lobbying the governor to direct health insurance companies to give doctors “retention grants.” Patients are paying their premiums, but insurers aren’t paying claims, the association said, so why not share some of that money around to keep the physician network stable.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"More Coronavirus Coverage\" tag=\"coronavirus\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Three months down the road, we’re going to have high demand for physician services, surgical and primary care, and we’ve got to be able to meet that,” said Dustin Corcoran, CEO of the California Medical Association. “Physician practices operate on very, very thin margins. They don’t have the reserves that payers have to weather the storm.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Blue Shield of California is distributing $200 million to doctors in advance payments and loans, but they will have to be paid back. The federal government is depositing $30 billion in the bank accounts of ailing physician practices, but these grants are based on how many Medicare patients they typically see. So while the grants provided a welcome relief to some doctors, for others they only covered a fraction of their losses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If only one payer steps up, that’s not going to be enough to sustain physician practices,” Corcoran said. “That requires a state effort and private payers to do their part.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dr. George Scott, an OB-GYN in Manteca, sees very few patients over 65, so he got virtually nothing from the Medicare payment, according to his wife, Debbie Rood, who manages all the finances for the practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their patient load has dropped by half, she said, as women skip their annual exams. Pre-natal visits are all over video now, which takes more time but pays less because there’s no physical contact. On top of everything, their landlord tripled the rent. Rood has been begging her husband and their three employees to conserve medical equipment and even electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For three weeks I have been telling them, ‘We are not going to have any money. ‘We’re not going to have any money’,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurance companies are sensitive to doctors’ struggles, but not to the point of handing out grants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a pretty simple solution to a very complex problem — and we think too simple,” said Charles Bacchi, CEO of the California Association of Health Plans, a trade group for health insurance companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Insurers have their own financial obligations and government regulations they must abide by, Bacchi said, and they would rather decide on a case-by-case basis who to help and how. 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"content": "\u003cp>As respiratory therapist Anthony Hernandez tended in recent weeks to patients ravaged by COVID-19 at a San Gabriel Valley hospital, his concern for his own son — locked in a different kind of hospital 50 miles to the east — only grew.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez’s son has been confined to Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino County, since a criminal court found him not guilty by reason of insanity after a frenzied assault on his own parents five years ago. These days, the 24 year old is doing well, his dad says, stable on medication he takes for schizophrenia. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Chuck Garcia, Metropolitan State Hospital senior psychiatric technician and union chapter president\"]‘There are lapses for the staff members and lapses for patients where there are all these areas that the virus can seep in.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But at Patton, the threat of an outbreak of the coronavirus looms large.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s just a ticking time bomb waiting to explode,” said Hernandez, who with his wife was visiting their son three or four times a week before the visitor center shuttered last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In California and around the country, public officials and criminal justice advocates have raised urgent concerns about the safety of inmates and staff at jails and prisons, carceral institutions that could be overrun by the coronavirus that causes the COVID-19 illness. But there’s a lesser known set of institutions facing similar, potentially more daunting, challenges: the state mental hospitals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Department of State Hospitals has been scrambling since mid-March to put protective measures in place to prevent the spread of infection. In written answers to questions, an official said the department is following the guidance of the California Department of Public Health and federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and “continues to plan, assess and evolve its preparedness and response due to rapidly changing circumstances.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 13,000-employee workforce is being screened before they are allowed to enter the facilities. Visiting has been suspended, as have most admissions and discharges. And each of the five state hospitals in the past week has established quarantine units for patients pending test results or those suspected of infection. A statewide “isolation/quarantine strike team” is reviewing those protocols. Meanwhile, staff have been directed to maintain social distancing, according to state officials, and to instruct patients to do so.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department declined to share how many of the system’s 6,000 patients have been tested for the virus, but internal records obtained by KQED show that count at 30 as of April 8 — just one of them at Patton. None have tested positive, though two employees, both at Patton, have. So have three outside contractors working at Metropolitan State Hospital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the department’s statewide efforts, a half dozen employees, labor union leaders and several patients expressed concerns in recent interviews that the hospitals remain at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11812132\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11812132\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/Chart-of-testing-stats.jpeg\" alt=\"A chart shows that as of April 8, 30 California Department of State Hospitals patients have been tested for COVID-19, with none testing positive. 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Garcia spoke as a staff union leader, chapter president of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He and others said screenings that staff undergo before entering the building are flagging only those who are symptomatic or have knowingly come into contact with someone who is ill, and that makes protective measures inside the hospital even more important.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most movement by patients in and out of hospitals has ceased. But Garcia said ill patients who needed to be hospitalized at outside facilities have left and returned. While they were tested for the coronavirus at those facilities, Garcia said, some remained hospitalized for a long time after the test — nine days in the case of one patient — and were not retested or quarantined when they returned to Metropolitan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They should be retested upon returning and go straight to the isolation unit where everybody’s got protective equipment,” Garcia said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The department, citing medical privacy laws, did not respond to questions about that case. [aside postID=\"news_11811822,news_11810000,news_11809600\" label=\"More Criminal Justice and Coronavirus Coverage\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Staff say the tests are in such short supply that symptomatic patients may be slipping through the cracks. As for employees who’ve shown symptoms, many have not been able to get tested in the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You send me home. I call my doctor. They say self-quarantine,” Garcia said. “But I don’t know if I’ve actually had it or not, and if I am positive, I’ve exposed people at work. But we’ll never know who.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While jails and prisons can confine inmates to their cells to avoid the spread of infection, the state hospitals — which also include Napa State Hospital, Coalinga State Hospital and Atascadero State Hospital on the Central Coast — cannot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The vast majority of men and women confined in the state hospital system have been accused or convicted of crimes directly linked to their mental illness. Yet the hospitals are treatment facilities — not prisons — and patients move about freely in their units. Many employees, including psychiatric technicians, registered nurses, rehabilitation therapists and psychologists, interact closely with them daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, not all staff are taking precautions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The hospitals only recently began issuing one surgical mask per day to all employees. Those can prevent the spread of contamination by the wearer. The N95 masks, which protect the wearer against outside infection, have been doled out more selectively to staff “working in higher risk situations” with patients known or suspected to be carrying the virus, state officials said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yet, according to interviews and internal emails shared by staff, wearing a surgical mask remains voluntary, except at Patton, where administrators last Thursday informed employees that a San Bernardino County public health order now requires it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One clinician, who asked not to be named because management instructs employees not to speak to reporters, said that there were “a significant number of people who work at Patton who are not wearing masks, not wearing gloves, not practicing social distancing. People are sharing pens. You have people who are taking this extremely seriously working next to people who aren’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That could prove tragic, as many patients are elderly and others have underlying health conditions due to medication side effects and poor self-care, among them obesity, diabetes and hepatitis C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jaime Garcia, who works at Coalinga State Hospital and is that facility’s president of the California Association of Psychiatric Technicians, said the workers he represents “are basically making a choice on whether they wear a mask or not.”[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Anthony Hernandez, Father of patient at Patton State Hospital\"]‘There are so many families going bananas right now because we haven’t been able to see our kids, to keep them going while they’re in there.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, he said, employees concerned that existing supplies won’t last have been buying or making their own. Paul Hannula, the union’s chapter president at Atascadero State Hospital, said his wife, also a psychiatric technician, has also been making hand sanitizer at home at night to bring behind the gates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are doing everything we can, all day, every day since this started to make it as safe as possible for our members,” Hannula said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the loved ones of patients inside the system, the uncertainty of the past few weeks has felt like forever.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are so many families going bananas right now because we haven’t been able to see our kids, to keep them going while they’re in there,” said Hernandez, the respiratory therapist, who asked that his son not be named to protect his medical privacy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Instead of the three to four visits a week, complete with picnic lunches, the family must now rely on phone calls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He told his dad that each unit gets yard time alone now, with plenty of space. 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