Can an 80-Year-Old Do Covid?

A Cautionary Look Back at the Latest Pandemic

By W Goodwin

Like a high tide or a storm surge, the viral flood of Covid-19 and the thrashing it gave Lynn and me finally receded. After wasting fifteen days of our lives, the disease faded from our bodies and we can now look back with more understanding than we had in early 2020.

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Remember those bizarrely quiet days at the beginning of spring in 2020? Like many other people, my partner Lynn and I howled at sunset in honor of our stalwart healthcare warriors. We all felt…