OPINION: “After two-plus years of pandemic life, how easy it is to look right through everyone we encounter without really seeing them,” writes hollyrob1.
Owner Ted Caplaneris, left, and waitress Sandy Dooley handle orders at The Old Townhouse, a 45-year-old institution in San Diego's Ocean Beach neighborhood on Friday, Dec. 18, 2020.
Most of us stride about unmasked these days, but the art of idle conversation — what little art we had left, after cell phones came on the scene and demanded our attention — seems to have evaporated with the phrases “viral load” and “social distancing.” Is it fear that keeps us from connecting? Or complacency?
The next morning, only one woman was taking guest orders for coffee and breakfast at the hotel restaurant. She was in her mid-60s, gray-haired and looking tired.She shrugged. “I'm used to it. Staffing shortages, you know? Two years of wildfires, then the pandemic. What can you do?”[W]e all have untold stories from the past few years, stories that deserve to be unfolded gently and offered to one another, so that we can maintain our humanity despite the uncertainty.
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