アンバー・タンブリンさんのインスタグラム写真 - (アンバー・タンブリンInstagram)「For tomorrow's print edition, I wrote for @TorontoStar on quarantining and the importance of wearing masks, even outside. ⁣✨✨✨ “In the spring of this year, I witnessed firsthand some of the worst devastation in my home town of Brooklyn, N.Y., where COVID-19 cases spiked at a devastating speed until it had completely devoured us. The sounds of blaring ambulance sirens echoed through the city non-stop, 24 hours a day. Brooklyn sidewalks, once populated with kids and families, became ghost towns. Entering into our version of a variety store was akin to playing Russian roulette with your own life. Neighbours watched as other neighbours were carried out on stretchers, or in body bags. Central Park in Manhattan had been converted into a temporary morgue. The Javits Convention Center had been turned into a massive emergency hospital to hold the huge influx of people struggling to live on ventilators. In one day alone, the virus killed 799 people in New York City. That’s 33 people dying an hour. New York alone — which has a comparable population to Ontario — watched as more than 30,000 people died from COVID-19 in just four months. And the United States as a whole has seen almost a quarter of a million people die from the virus since February, thanks to the complete absence of federal leadership and the abdication of responsibility on the part of our narcissist-in-chief, President Donald Trump.⁣ ⁣ As an American, I’ve seen the consequences of this disease and what the vacancy of strong, national leadership during a health crisis can do to its citizens, businesses and local governments. When I came through the border into Canada, I felt a deep sense of relief, of unfamiliar safety — something I haven’t felt in years since Trump took office. I was grateful to hear how seriously Canada was taking COVID-19, and I was grateful for the strict quarantine rules put in place to enter the country and work here. It felt like the difference between having parents who take good care of you, even if that means making you eat your vegetables when you don’t want to, and having parents who drink and drive, with you sitting in the back seat...” (Link in my bio for the full article.)」10月20日 4時47分