Offhand I’m guessing that not too many of my readers are also readers of the Ventura County Star but I thought that this column from the VCStar’s columnist Lisa McKinnon had resonance beyond Ventura County:
My first Café Society column in five months will be my last story for the Ventura County Star after nearly 29 years with the paper.
When I wrote back in July that I was stepping away from The Star indefinitely after filing a column about the corn burritos at Karina’s Mexican Food in Ventura, my life was already changing in profound ways.
On the outside, I was covering Black-owned food businesses in Ventura County, the impact of changing coronavirus restrictions on local food trucks and plans to open what will be the region’s second Black Bear Diner after the first one debuted in Simi Valley in May 2019.
On the inside, I was trying to figure out how to be my mother’s quarantined, 24/7 caretaker so she could spend her final months at home, protected from another spike in COVID-19 cases while we waited to see if a few rounds of palliative chemotherapy would slow the mass growing on her pancreas.
Read the whole thing. I believe that it will become increasingly clear that whether we contract it or not COVID-19 has changed most of our lives in ways that will only become fully apparent over time.
And for the most part unnecessarily. As an aside, black small businesses have been disproportionately affected. Nice job, hystericals.
We started seeing those signs in town, not sure if that’s to increase sales or to ward off rocks and firebombs.
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