Deaths Beyond Counting

By |2021-01-03T16:52:07-08:00January 3, 2021|COVID, San Francisco|

A house on the 700 block of Waller caught my attention in June. As I walked by I noticed that the residents were displaying the current US COVID death toll in their front windows. Stickies formed the numbers of today's total in one window while the other front window showed yesterday's toll. The windows on a residential street shocked in contrast to the cool, remote news reports of the pandemic's impact. I walked by several times on my morning treks, watching the numbers grow, until on June 27 I decided the non-panoramic scene should be preserved as another Sign of [...]