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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After a year of fear, stress and isolation, the COVID-19 vaccine often \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/29/962190182/covid-19-vaccine-recipients-detail-their-emotional-reactions\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">produces\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> something in addition to the the little pinch of sensation in your arm. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The experience is also emotional. Some feel relief. Others gratitude. Many are overcome and start crying.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some people say the freedom constricted by the pandemic is beginning to return. And that feeling of liberty is familiar to those who have survived previous epidemics. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">On a spring afternoon in 1954, 1-year-old Gloria Anderson played with a group of toddlers in Billings, Montana. Two days later her mother learned that one of the other children had contracted polio. Within days, Anderson started feeling sick: first a bit of nausea, then fever. Her mom gasped when she put Anderson in a high chair.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“I was kicking one leg,” explained Anderson. “And my mom stuck the pin in my left leg, and I didn’t move it.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They rushed her to the hospital where she quarantined for three weeks. Even her mother couldn’t visit. 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So there’s a lot of overlap between the two pandemics.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11865363\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 750px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11865363 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/20EA39B9-9373-4750-B4FE-D5A8C7E0354F.jpg\" alt=\"Leo Herrera holding a blue PrEP pill. \" width=\"750\" height=\"1012\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/20EA39B9-9373-4750-B4FE-D5A8C7E0354F.jpg 750w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/20EA39B9-9373-4750-B4FE-D5A8C7E0354F-160x216.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leo Herrera says taking a blue daily PrEP pill not only offers protection against HIV, it also lowers his stress and anxiety. \u003ccite>(Leo Herrera)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Back in 2012, Herrera was dating an HIV-positive man. That same year, \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/prep.html\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">PrEP\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a daily pill that prevents the user from contracting the virus, hit the market. But, just like the vaccine rollout today, access tilted toward affluent communities with good insurance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">“It took years for PrEP to be distributed widely to folks of color and folks without health care,” Herrera said.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And just like today, a lot of media focused on unknowns. Would the pill lead to toxicity? Bone density issues? Maybe kidney problems? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the end, Herrera took a leap of faith. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Part of our series ‘\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/yearofcovid\">A Year of COVID\u003c/a>,’ marking a year of the coronavirus pandemic\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A year after the pandemic began, more than 2.6 million people globally have died from the coronavirus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the United States, COVID-19 has killed more than 530,000 people. And within California, more than 55,000 people have died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These vast numbers remain hard to grasp — each one representing not just a person, but also a community of grieving friends and family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Much has been written of both \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2021/01/01/949329416/steamrolled-us-in-every-direction-the-year-grief-hit-from-all-sides\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">individual grief\u003c/a> and the ongoing feelings\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/were-not-ready-for-this-kind-of-grief/609856/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> of collective loss during this period\u003c/a>. But what should be done about the indescribable brain fog and empty-heartedness that grief leaves a person with?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All the ways that you cope and grieve with horrifying losses are kind of stripped during a crisis like this,” said journalist Sam Levin on \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KQED Forum\u003c/a>‘s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101881800/processing-the-grief-and-trauma-of-losing-a-loved-one-to-covid-19\">recent show dedicated to the grief and trauma\u003c/a> wrought by the COVID-19 death toll. “And it makes it just exponentially harder and really is sort of a trauma on top of trauma.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Levin lost his grandmother, Debbie Hennessy, to COVID-19 in January, and wrote a \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/31/my-grandmas-survival-in-america-defied-all-odds-then-covid-stole-her-from-us\">moving tribute to her in The Guardian\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/SamTLevin/status/1351590545836003328\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For California Assemblyman James Ramos, D-Highland, who is the first Native American elected to the state Assembly, there’s a different sense of a loss when it comes to COVID-19 and elders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When we lose them, it’s a piece of our history and a piece of our knowledge that goes with them,” Ramos — a member of the of the Serrano/Cahuilla tribe in San Bernardino County — told KQED Forum.\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[aside postID=\"arts_13893843\"]\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s things that aren’t written down,” Ramos said. And with each human loss, “a thread of the culture” is lost too, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For those experiencing grief during the pandemic — and particularly Black and Indigenous people of color (BIPOC), \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/09/16/913365560/the-majority-of-children-who-die-from-covid-19-are-children-of-color\">who have been so disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus \u003c/a>— what are some concrete ways individuals can work through the enormity of losing someone to COVID-19?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>KQED spoke with three experts who all professionally focus on end-of-life care and approach grieving from differing perspectives:\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com/end-of-life-doula\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oceana Sawyer, \u003c/a>an end-of-life doula in the Bay Area,\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.cardamomandkavate.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roshni Kavate, \u003c/a>healer and activist, and former palliative care nurse\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://sbbh.net/provider/erika-felix/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Erika Felix, \u003c/a>a licensed psychologist and associate professor of clinical psychology at UC Santa Barbara\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>And keep in mind when reading this: as Felix noted on KQED Forum, “grief is not a one size fits all thing.” Consider and take what works for you and leave the rest. Additional resources on processing grief \u003ca href=\"#anchor\">are listed at the bottom of this article\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Choose Someone You Can \u003cem>Really\u003c/em> Talk To\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The first thing I would suggest is the person get themselves a therapist,” said \u003ca href=\"https://www.oceanaendoflifedoula.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Oceana Sawyer, \u003c/a> who as an end-of-life doula provides supportive care to people during the dying process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer hosts a virtual “death cafe” for the BIPOC community, as well as events focusing on grief and the Black experience. It’s important, Sawyer stresses, that the support you seek comes with the cultural competency you need. [pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Oceana Sawyer, death doula\"]‘You want to be able to communicate your experience to someone who can actually hear it and receive it and reflect it back to you in its entirety.’[/pullquote]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to be able to communicate your experience to someone who can actually hear it and receive it, and reflect it back to you in its entirety,” Sawyer said — emphasizing the particular importance for BIPOC folks of doing so without the “need for code switching.” Ideally, anyone who is sharing their experiences should not be “impacted by microaggressions at a moment in time where you’re at your most vulnerable,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of cultural competency in professional support was echoed on KQED Forum’s show by Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia, who has been personally been working through the death of her own loved ones from COVID-19 while simultaneously reporting on the pandemic in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejia said her therapist is also Mexican American, which has “been a huge help to me that she kind of understands my family dynamic.” “She gets it” Mejia said — emphasizing that “it makes a huge difference for me to have a therapist like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this matters, Oceana Sawyer says, because the communities of color she works with have been dying from the virus at disproportionate rates. And that means their grief is also happening in “the context of medical racism, which doesn’t provide adequate care for Black and brown Indigenous bodies,” she says — and all amid the “ongoing racial oppression and white supremacy” in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s more complex,” Sawyer said. “All these different layers are happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resources on finding culturally competent affordable therapy can be found below. \u003ccite>(Gender Spectrum Collection/Broadly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Remember That Grief Might Not Feel (or Look) Like You Think\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Erika Felix echoes the importance of having a support system. “We all know that there’s no words that can take away such a profound loss,” she said — and still, she notes, we \u003cem>need\u003c/em> our networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s someone close to you going through grief, Felix recommends checking in, but staying adaptable on the support you offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe they want to talk that day, maybe they don’t,” Felix said. “Maybe it just feels good to have somebody remember that they’re going through this and grieving.” And just knowing that you’re “willing to walk through it with them,” she added, is important for a person’s healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the five stages of grief may be more well known — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — the fact that everyone goes through them differently can be hard to reconcile with close family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might go through phases of depression and eventually come out at the other end with acceptance and being able to hold the memories and move forward,” said Felix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people also move \u003cem>in and out\u003c/em> of each stage in many different ways, Felix said. “Depending on somebody’s culture and family, and how they process emotions, even within families, grief can look very different,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person’s grief and each family’s grief may look different and go through many continual phases. If you’re the one experiencing grief, be aware of this and be kind to yourself. And if you’re the one offering support, know that a loved one’s grief might not take the form or process you anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Allow Your Body to Feel Your Grief \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Grief is a full-body sport,” says Roshni Kavate, who grew up in India and worked for several years as an ICU and palliative care nurse in the Bay Area. “It shows up in your body and in your heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate now focuses on reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom, often working with people who are experiencing grief by mixing art and ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate says she left nursing after 12 years because she wanted to see a greater sense of caring in the bereavement process. “I want to do it with beauty and intention; with celebrating,” she said. And creating or recreating personal rituals for your body and brain to enact can allow those experiencing grief to rethink the shattered sense of meaning in their lives and regain a sense of control, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot control grief. It dictates when it’s going to show up,” Kavate said. But with ritual, she said, “you can get curious in that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also sees it as a cyclical process. Healing is often thought of with an endpoint, but as Kavate says, you don’t need to try to get to the end — since there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> no end. “If we can really feel the depth of emotion in our body,” she notes, that will help the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oceana Sawyer also highlights how both movement and sound — known as somatic or vocal processing — can be a way of moving through grief. This can be particularly powerful for BIPOC grievers, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole thing about the full-body wailing — the singing, the moving, the dancing … It’s part of how Black bodies actually metabolize grief,” Sawyer said. “When you move your body in a certain way — that rocking, that swing, you add a hum to it — those things together actually calm the nervous system, and allow the body to process big emotional experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listen to how you speak to yourself. Are you showing the same understanding and compassion that you’d extend to a friend? \u003ccite>(Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Move Your Body \u003cem>Into\u003c/em> Nature\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paying attention to your grief through journaling or meditation has huge value, Sawyer said, “but I \u003cem>really\u003c/em> recommend that people start moving around: specifically for BIPOC folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer recommends people notice and observe their body, “meditate, move — get out in nature and just start moving, noticing how it feels in your body, where the emotions are in your body,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate agrees that nature is a wonderful remedy. This could be something as simple as taking care of a plant for a kitchen garden, taking a hike in nature, or a trip to the beach — anything you can do to tend to life, while going through loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [we] are grieving, we don’t take care of ourselves,” Kavate said. “An antidote to grief is life,” she said, and urges ways to find “a deeper kinship with living beings, and life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Consider Connecting With Family and Ancestral Forms of Healing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Delving deeper into ancestral wisdom can be useful for immigrants as well as first, second and third generation Americans, Kavate says. The question she advises asking: “What in your culture was medicine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it was food-based, this could be answered by eating your grandmother’s favorite lamb meatballs, for example, or eating a mango. Kavate encourages people to particularly look into foods that bring you comfort — which could be traditional medicinal food, like stews, beans, rice and lentils. The smell of these foods, Kavate says, can also be powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Grief is really a calling for more joy and more life,” she said — and it’s important for people to “tend” to what is calling us and our bodies. “Our bodies are deeply intelligent and they have intelligence in how to navigate grief,” she adds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Finally, Say No to Guilt\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>As Felix told KQED Forum, when it comes to housing inequities and work, sometimes people — particularly BIPOC folks — are given “impossible choices on survival” in terms of navigating exposure, work and a constantly changing and mutating viruses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You could do everything right, and somebody could still get it [COVID-19],” Felix said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While guilt is understandable, Felix says it’s about not letting it stop a person moving forward. To reframe the perspective, Felix poses the question of how someone might treat a friend in a similar situation, — “what would they say to their best friend to comfort them?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca id=\"anchor\">\u003c/a>\u003cbr>\n\u003cstrong>Resources:\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nctsn.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Child Traumatic Stress Network\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.apa.org/helpcenter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Psychological Association Help Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nlpa.ws/find-an-expert#/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Latinx Psychological Association\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://abpsi.site-ym.com/search/custom.asp?id=5934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Association of Black Psychologists, Find a Therapist\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://kara-grief.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kara Grief Support\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/2032852766832910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 Loss Support Group for Young Adults, a Facebook group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/groups/2032852766832910\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motherless Daughters, Facebook group\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>An \u003ca href=\"https://refugeingrief.com/helper-overview/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">overview on how to help a grieving friend\u003c/a> from Megan Devine\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://www.covidgriefnetwork.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The COVID Grief Network\u003c/a> offers free one-on-one and group grief support for young adults\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>More resources from \u003ca href=\"https://alicaforneret.com/aboutme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Alica Forneret\u003c/a>, founder of Dead Mom’s Club\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>List of \u003ca href=\"https://bookshop.org/lists/books-for-a-grieving-friend\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">books on grief,\u003c/a> curated by journalist Katie Hawkins-Garr\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://letsreimagine.org/resources/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Let’s Reimagine\u003c/a>, resources and community events\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"https://open.spotify.com/show/75hicI0owzQKJmUuFwP4oc?si=oKkkEJ92TxWADTLrl2z2KQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grief Out Loud\u003c/a>, a podcast on grief from \u003ca href=\"https://www.dougy.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Dougy Center\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You want to be able to communicate your experience to someone who can actually hear it and receive it, and reflect it back to you in its entirety,” Sawyer said — emphasizing the particular importance for BIPOC folks of doing so without the “need for code switching.” Ideally, anyone who is sharing their experiences should not be “impacted by microaggressions at a moment in time where you’re at your most vulnerable,” she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The importance of cultural competency in professional support was echoed on KQED Forum’s show by Los Angeles Times reporter Brittny Mejia, who has been personally been working through the death of her own loved ones from COVID-19 while simultaneously reporting on the pandemic in L.A.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mejia said her therapist is also Mexican American, which has “been a huge help to me that she kind of understands my family dynamic.” “She gets it” Mejia said — emphasizing that “it makes a huge difference for me to have a therapist like her.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this matters, Oceana Sawyer says, because the communities of color she works with have been dying from the virus at disproportionate rates. And that means their grief is also happening in “the context of medical racism, which doesn’t provide adequate care for Black and brown Indigenous bodies,” she says — and all amid the “ongoing racial oppression and white supremacy” in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us, it’s more complex,” Sawyer said. “All these different layers are happening.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11837589\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11837589\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/therapy-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Resources on finding culturally competent affordable therapy can be found below. \u003ccite>(Gender Spectrum Collection/Broadly)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>Remember That Grief Might Not Feel (or Look) Like You Think\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Erika Felix echoes the importance of having a support system. “We all know that there’s no words that can take away such a profound loss,” she said — and still, she notes, we \u003cem>need\u003c/em> our networks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it’s someone close to you going through grief, Felix recommends checking in, but staying adaptable on the support you offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe they want to talk that day, maybe they don’t,” Felix said. “Maybe it just feels good to have somebody remember that they’re going through this and grieving.” And just knowing that you’re “willing to walk through it with them,” she added, is important for a person’s healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the five stages of grief may be more well known — denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance — the fact that everyone goes through them differently can be hard to reconcile with close family and friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We might go through phases of depression and eventually come out at the other end with acceptance and being able to hold the memories and move forward,” said Felix.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But people also move \u003cem>in and out\u003c/em> of each stage in many different ways, Felix said. “Depending on somebody’s culture and family, and how they process emotions, even within families, grief can look very different,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each person’s grief and each family’s grief may look different and go through many continual phases. If you’re the one experiencing grief, be aware of this and be kind to yourself. And if you’re the one offering support, know that a loved one’s grief might not take the form or process you anticipated.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Allow Your Body to Feel Your Grief \u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“Grief is a full-body sport,” says Roshni Kavate, who grew up in India and worked for several years as an ICU and palliative care nurse in the Bay Area. “It shows up in your body and in your heart.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate now focuses on reclaiming nourishing practices rooted in ancestral wisdom, often working with people who are experiencing grief by mixing art and ritual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate says she left nursing after 12 years because she wanted to see a greater sense of caring in the bereavement process. “I want to do it with beauty and intention; with celebrating,” she said. And creating or recreating personal rituals for your body and brain to enact can allow those experiencing grief to rethink the shattered sense of meaning in their lives and regain a sense of control, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You cannot control grief. It dictates when it’s going to show up,” Kavate said. But with ritual, she said, “you can get curious in that space.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also sees it as a cyclical process. Healing is often thought of with an endpoint, but as Kavate says, you don’t need to try to get to the end — since there \u003cem>is\u003c/em> no end. “If we can really feel the depth of emotion in our body,” she notes, that will help the process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oceana Sawyer also highlights how both movement and sound — known as somatic or vocal processing — can be a way of moving through grief. This can be particularly powerful for BIPOC grievers, she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The whole thing about the full-body wailing — the singing, the moving, the dancing … It’s part of how Black bodies actually metabolize grief,” Sawyer said. “When you move your body in a certain way — that rocking, that swing, you add a hum to it — those things together actually calm the nervous system, and allow the body to process big emotional experiences.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11835632\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1900px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11835632\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1900\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp.png 1900w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-800x539.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1020x687.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-160x108.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/stress-comp-1536x1035.png 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1900px) 100vw, 1900px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Listen to how you speak to yourself. Are you showing the same understanding and compassion that you’d extend to a friend? \u003ccite>(Ketut Subiyanto/Pexels)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Move Your Body \u003cem>Into\u003c/em> Nature\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Paying attention to your grief through journaling or meditation has huge value, Sawyer said, “but I \u003cem>really\u003c/em> recommend that people start moving around: specifically for BIPOC folks.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sawyer recommends people notice and observe their body, “meditate, move — get out in nature and just start moving, noticing how it feels in your body, where the emotions are in your body,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kavate agrees that nature is a wonderful remedy. This could be something as simple as taking care of a plant for a kitchen garden, taking a hike in nature, or a trip to the beach — anything you can do to tend to life, while going through loss.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When [we] are grieving, we don’t take care of ourselves,” Kavate said. “An antidote to grief is life,” she said, and urges ways to find “a deeper kinship with living beings, and life.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Consider Connecting With Family and Ancestral Forms of Healing\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>Delving deeper into ancestral wisdom can be useful for immigrants as well as first, second and third generation Americans, Kavate says. The question she advises asking: “What in your culture was medicine?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If it was food-based, this could be answered by eating your grandmother’s favorite lamb meatballs, for example, or eating a mango. 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"content": "\u003cp>In Los Angeles County, the impact of the coronavirus pandemic has trickled down to some of the most vulnerable residents: kids in the child welfare system. The number of kids in the system rose dramatically during 2020, according to \u003ca href=\"https://dcfs.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/Factsheet-CY-2020.pdf\">data\u003c/a> released by the county’s Department of Children and Family Services. At the end of 2020, there were 3,535 more children in the system \u003ca href=\"https://dcfs.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Factsheet-CY-2019.pdf\">than in 2019\u003c/a>, a spike of 10% over the previous year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To put that increase in context, consider the numbers from the past five years: In 2015 there were 34,881 children in the system. That number crept upward most years, but never by more than a few hundred kids per year. An increase of 3,535 children for just a single year is significant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DCFS officials were careful to say that spike in the number of kids in the system doesn’t necessarily mean there has been a corresponding increase in child abuse or neglect over the last year. Instead they attribute the increase to many cases not closing due to the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11807392/what-happens-when-courthouses-where-abuse-cases-are-heard-shut-down\">pandemic shuttering the courts\u003c/a>, which led to an overall slowdown in the processing of cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Leslie Heimov, executive director, Children’s Law Center of California\"]‘We know that there’s been a significant increase in mental health distress … So a parent who’s already fragile or a child who’s already fragile who has an interruption in their services or an interruption in their mental health treatment, that’s compounded by the stress of the pandemic and by the separation.’[/pullquote]Still, ascertaining if a child is being abused got infinitely harder after the COVID-19 pandemic hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On a recent afternoon, a teacher who called the department’s Child Protection Hotline told social worker Katherine Rossi that during a Zoom class, she noticed one of her first graders had a black eye.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Is this the first time you see something like this, or do you think it might be the way it looks on the screen?” Rossi asked the teacher. “Did [the child] share anything that may help in regards to figuring out if he did have a black eye or not?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rossi determined that the teacher should do more follow up with the child and his parents — there was just too little to go on from what the teacher reported. She then walked the teacher through how to follow up, also a tricky process in the virtual world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>DCFS Director Bobby Cagle said a teacher’s job of probing into the circumstances of a bruise is much harder over Zoom than simply being able to have a conversation with a child in the classroom. Over Zoom, teachers and social workers are “limited in what [they] can do because the child is at home … And you never know who is just off-screen,” Cagle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When shelter-in-place orders sent everyone home, calls to the hotline dropped dramatically. But as the year went on they crept back up, according to Carlos Torres, division chief of the Child Protection Hotline.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Right now we’re getting 600 calls and online reports a day. Whereas if it was not COVID, we probably would be getting between 750 and 850 a day,” Torres said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cagle also said the number of children removed from their parent(s) or guardian during 2020 due to suspected abuse or neglect showed a minimal increase from the year prior. “The removals actually did go up a little bit, but if you’re looking at it percentage wise, we remained relatively constant,” Cagle said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But shuttered courts have meant fewer open cases were closed and fewer adoptions were finalized in 2020. The net result was that many children who would have had their cases closed did not — and they remain in an already overburdened system.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Isolation for Kids and Parents — Swelling Caseloads for Lawyers\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>“The impact on the children has been significant,” said Leslie Heimov, executive director of the Children’s Law Center of California, which provides an attorney to every child who is removed from their parents due to issues of abuse or neglect. When the pandemic hit, in-person, supervised visits between those children and their parents were mostly stopped.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s been a significant decline in the amount of face-to-face contact that children are having with their parents, with their siblings, with their extended family,” Heimov said. “Ironically, a foster parent could make a decision to bring their foster child with them when they went to visit their own sister or their next-door neighbor, but the child and their own parents might have been prohibited from seeing each other.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even well-intentioned changes – like case extensions to help parents comply with court orders – have caused hardship, Heimov added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Giving a family an extra six months, a year down the road to reunify doesn’t undo the damage that was perpetrated when they were physically separated from each other for three months, six months, nine months, however long it was that they weren’t able to have that incredibly important face-to-face contact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heimov also worries that the slowdown in the processing of cases may end up having a negative impact on some parents’ ability to reunite with their children at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know that there’s been a significant increase in mental health distress throughout the whole country, so a parent who’s already fragile or a child who’s already fragile who has an interruption in their services or an interruption in their mental health treatment, that’s compounded by the stress of the pandemic and by the separation,” she said. “Then we may lose some parents who should have reunified and who were doing well, but this was just the straw that broke the camel’s back.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='A Year of COVID' tag='a-year-of-covid']The spike in children in the system has also caused swelling caseloads for the children’s attorneys. “In January of 2020 we had 177 clients per attorney,” Heimov said. “We’ve gone from 177 children per lawyer to a high of 215… Having more clients reduces the amount of time that one can spend with each client.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An already overburdened system is now even more taxed, said Dennis Smeal, executive director of Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, a nonprofit organization of five law firms that represent most of the parents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before COVID we had 22,000 parents that we represented,” Smeal said. “By Dec. 31, we had 27,000, and that means that caseloads went up in some cases by 40%.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The lawyers are suffering,” he said, adding that his staff have been working extraordinary hours to meet the need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smeal does see some pandemic silver linings for families working to get their children back. He cites the new practice of filing paperwork electronically and the use of video conferencing to appear in court.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It used to be if you were a long-haul truck driver you had to make the choice between losing income or appearing at your court hearings,” Smeal said. “Now we have remote hearings that I hope we’ll be able to use whenever parents can’t appear personally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As social workers, court staff and attorneys are starting to get vaccinated, there may be more cases processed in the near future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There’s going to be a big push to close as many cases as possible,” Smeal said. But until that happens, many children nearing reunification with their family will remain in foster care, a system at the brink.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Deepa Fernandes is an early childhood reporting fellow at Pacific Oaks College, which is funded in part by First 5 LA. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"headTitle": "Mark Fiore: Drawn to the Bay | KQED News",
"content": "\u003cp>Looking back over a year of my COVID-19 cartoons, I'm struck by how they reflect a slow-motion realization of the horror of what was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a \"science\" story became an everything story about a pandemic that to date has killed over 525,000 people in the United States alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of my early pandemic stupidity, I drew this – \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">my first cartoon about coronavirus\u003c/a> – while sitting in a crowded food court (unmasked, of course) while on a trip to New York City on Jan. 31, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11799374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Calm and Science On by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember the introduction of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">elbow-bump\u003c/a>? At first it seemed almost quaint and funny, until most of us here in the Bay Area became more like the character in the last frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11806490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png\" alt=\"The Elbow Bump And More by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-1020x726.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">This cartoon\u003c/a> coincided with the rise of the pandemic pup, although in hindsight, I'm screaming at the human characters in this cartoon to put on face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png\" alt=\"Six Foot Dog Walking by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-1020x738.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When community transmission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">finally came to California\u003c/a>, COVID-19 was no longer only a problem for other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11804021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png\" alt=\"Coronavirus California Republic by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-1020x732.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The isolation of working from home is nothing new for cartoonists, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">not everyone\u003c/a> has been able to minimize the risk of contracting COVID-19 by having a career that lends itself to remote work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png\" alt=\"Unsung Heroes by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-1020x724.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">April Fools' Day came along\u003c/a> early in the pandemic, pranks weren't high on most people's list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11810120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png\" alt=\"April Not So Foolish by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-1020x731.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social distancing took on a very different meaning depending on where you were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">in California\u003c/a> and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11814620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png\" alt=\"Distancing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-1020x677.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though it has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, there have definitely been some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">silver linings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I created \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">this cartoon\u003c/a> nearly a year ago and it still applies for reopening guidelines and now, for the vaccine rollout.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We figured out how to fight racial injustice amid a pandemic as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">marches and uprisings\u003c/a> happened across the country that were sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, coronavirus outbreaks happened in prisons across the state, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a> being among the hardest hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png\" alt=\"San Quentin COVID-19\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1020x683.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1536x1028.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a year of tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths with graphs and charts, and who says you can't use them in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">a cartoon\u003c/a> to make a point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png\" alt=\"Flattening the Curve by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1020x810.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-160x127.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1536x1220.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11832163/california-covid-19-cases-are-trending-down-or-up\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11832168\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-800x533.png\" alt=\"Down is Up by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-800x533.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-1020x679.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final-1536x1023.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/08/downup_080620_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For a time in the Bay Area and across California and the west, wildfires and smoke cast an additional pall over an already bleak forecast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840263/after-six-swingless-months\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840267\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-800x539.png\" alt=\"Playgrounds Reopening by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final-1536x1035.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/playground_092920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840653/all-the-colors-of-the-disasterbow\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840661\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-800x561.png\" alt=\"All the Colors of the Disasterbow by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"561\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-800x561.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-1020x716.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final-1536x1078.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/rainbow_100120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11838717/ready-set-weekend\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11838718\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png\" alt=\"Weekend by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"551\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-800x551.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1020x702.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-160x110.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final-1536x1058.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/09/weekend_091820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After months of downplaying the danger of coronavirus and dodging any blame for how his administration handled the pandemic, President Trump finally \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840795/a-positive-president\">caught the virus\u003c/a> and was hospitalized for a short time.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11840795/a-positive-president\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11840803\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-800x537.png\" alt=\"Pandemic in Sight by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-800x537.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-1020x685.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final-1536x1031.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/sight_100220_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And throughout the past year of pandemic, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">parents and children\u003c/a> have juggled online schooling, career and staying at home, as many schools only recently move toward in-person learning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11848120/its-harder-than-it-looks\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11848134\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png\" alt=\"Cartoon: The Pandemic Parent by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"482\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-800x482.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1020x614.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-160x96.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final-1536x925.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/parent_111920_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849568/the-hunkering-down-continues\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849578\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring the \"Home Sweet Home\" classic needlepoint sign as \"Home Stay Home Again\" as new stay-at-home orders are issued by Gov. Newsom' width=\"800\" height=\"509\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-800x509.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1020x649.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final-1536x977.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/12/again_120320_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One silver lining of this damn pandemic has been a wealth of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849065/purple-is-on-the-menu\">new visual images and metaphors\u003c/a> for my cartoons. If we can't laugh a little, we'll only cry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11849065/purple-is-on-the-menu\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11849101\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-800x508.png\" alt=\"Cartoon about dining out amid the pandemic restrictions by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-800x508.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-1020x648.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-160x102.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final-1536x976.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/11/dining_113020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thankfully, my coronavirus cartoons have now largely turned to focus on vaccines, their rollout and anti-vaxxers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11858285/anti-vaxxers-vs-reality\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11858308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring COVID-19 saying, "fortunately, there's no vaccine for stupidity," as anti-vaxxers protest the coronavirus vaccine.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-800x522.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1020x666.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final-1536x1002.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/novaccine_020221_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11862330/the-unfolding-masterpiece\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11862337\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-800x539.png\" alt=\"A Mark Fiore cartoon showing a painter in front of a painting showing the dramatic drop in COVID cases in nursing homes while saying, "I call it, 'take that, anti-vaxxers.'"\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-800x539.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-1020x687.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-160x108.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final-1536x1034.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/02/takethat_022621_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Which brings us to that light at the end of the tunnel we've all been waiting for ...\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11863986/heres-to-happy-reunions\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11863994\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-800x519.png\" alt='A Mark Fiore cartoon featuring a happy reunion between grandparents and grandkids at the end of a tunnel, captioned, \"the light at the end of the tunnel.\"' width=\"800\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-800x519.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-1020x662.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-160x104.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final-1536x997.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2021/03/tunnel_030921_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Looking back over a year of my COVID-19 cartoons, I'm struck by how they reflect a slow-motion realization of the horror of what was unfolding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What started as a \"science\" story became an everything story about a pandemic that to date has killed over 525,000 people in the United States alone.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a sign of my early pandemic stupidity, I drew this – \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">my first cartoon about coronavirus\u003c/a> – while sitting in a crowded food court (unmasked, of course) while on a trip to New York City on Jan. 31, 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11799364/separating-fact-from-crazed-conspiracy-fiction\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11799374\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg\" alt=\"Keep Calm and Science On by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-800x516.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-160x103.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured-1020x658.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/01/keepcalm_013120_final_featured.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Remember the introduction of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">elbow-bump\u003c/a>? At first it seemed almost quaint and funny, until most of us here in the Bay Area became more like the character in the last frame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11806484/the-elbow-bump-and-more\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11806490\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png\" alt=\"The Elbow Bump And More by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-800x569.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final-1020x726.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/greetings_031220_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">This cartoon\u003c/a> coincided with the rise of the pandemic pup, although in hindsight, I'm screaming at the human characters in this cartoon to put on face masks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809059/walking-the-dog-not-quite-as-simple-as-before\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809063\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png\" alt=\"Six Foot Dog Walking by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"579\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-800x579.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-160x116.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final-1020x738.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/sixfeet_032620_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When community transmission \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">finally came to California\u003c/a>, COVID-19 was no longer only a problem for other countries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11804012/stay-safe-and-keep-calm-california\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11804021\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png\" alt=\"Coronavirus California Republic by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-800x574.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final-1020x732.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/02/coronavirus_022720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The isolation of working from home is nothing new for cartoonists, but \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">not everyone\u003c/a> has been able to minimize the risk of contracting COVID-19 by having a career that lends itself to remote work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11809688/remember-those-unsung-heroes\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11809702\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png\" alt=\"Unsung Heroes by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"568\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-800x568.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-160x114.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final-1020x724.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/03/danger_033020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">April Fools' Day came along\u003c/a> early in the pandemic, pranks weren't high on most people's list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11810112/not-feeling-so-foolish-this-april\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11810120\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png\" alt=\"April Not So Foolish by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-800x573.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-160x115.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final-1020x731.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/aprilfools_040120_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Social distancing took on a very different meaning depending on where you were \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">in California\u003c/a> and across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11814620\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png\" alt=\"Distancing by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-800x531.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-160x106.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final-1020x677.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/distancing_042720_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though it has been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year, there have definitely been some \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11811883/less-traffic-more-elbow-room\">silver linings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11814612/taking-the-i-out-of-social-distancing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11811888\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png\" alt=\"Silver Lining by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"558\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-800x558.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final-1020x711.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/04/silverlining_041020_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I created \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">this cartoon\u003c/a> nearly a year ago and it still applies for reopening guidelines and now, for the vaccine rollout.\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11817126/yes-its-confusing\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11817138\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png\" alt=\"Pandemic Patchwork by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-800x627.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-160x125.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final-1020x800.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/05/patchwork_050820_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We figured out how to fight racial injustice amid a pandemic as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">marches and uprisings\u003c/a> happened across the country that were sparked by the police killing of George Floyd.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11822906/the-other-deadly-virus\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11822919\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png\" alt=\"Stay Home Leave Home by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-800x559.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-160x112.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final-1020x713.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/stayleave_060420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, coronavirus outbreaks happened in prisons across the state, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">San Quentin State Prison\u003c/a> being among the hardest hit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826003/being-locked-up-just-got-worse\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826013\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png\" alt=\"San Quentin COVID-19\" width=\"800\" height=\"535\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-800x535.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1020x683.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-160x107.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final-1536x1028.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/sanq_062420_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been a year of tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths with graphs and charts, and who says you can't use them in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">a cartoon\u003c/a> to make a point?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11826175/data-downers\">\u003cimg class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11826183\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png\" alt=\"Flattening the Curve by Mark Fiore\" width=\"800\" height=\"635\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-800x635.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1020x810.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-160x127.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final-1536x1220.png 1536w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2020/06/flattening_062520_final.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 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