When American individualism is scarier than the lack of protective gear.
My first eye roll came early February, when my mother urged me to purchase a package of face masks. The good ones — contraptions I had never heard of called N95’s — would quickly vanish if I didn’t act soon, she warned, prompting me to chuckle as I moved on to discuss upcoming travel plans for the year. Sicily and the Balearic Islands — two regions in countries now at the center of some of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world — were next on my list of places to visit. What was the point in adjusting plans to defer to some virus wreaking havoc across the world? Let alone stock up on masks…
To read the entire article from Mother Jones, click https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/what-my-korean-american-mother-who-knew-there-would-be-a-coronavirus-crisis-fears-the-most/
