Lon

“Once far enough removed, everyone will be properly aghast that any of this was allowed to happen. But for now, it’s just so much safer to look away, to keep one’s head down, periodically checking on the balance of polite society to see if it is not too troublesome yet to state what to the conscience was never unclear.”
― Omar El Akkad, One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

“We know that we need to do better, but we don’t get around to doing the hard and uncomfortable work needed to do it.”
― Farzon A. Nahvi, Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

“This was, of course, during the early days of the pandemic in New York City, when the city’s morgues had exceeded their capacities and bodies were being kept in refrigerated trailers parked in the street.”
― Farzon A. Nahvi, Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER

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― Farzon A. Nahvi, Code Gray: Death, Life, and Uncertainty in the ER