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, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Natalie is a rural mail carrier in Nevada, and the United States Postal Service has had one hell of a year. When I set up our interview for this series, I was particularly interested to hear how she was handling the increased focus on the USPS in 2020 as Postmaster General Louis DeJoy made changes that drastically slowed delivery times amid both a pandemic and a presidential election. (You can read way more about those changes here.) The slowdown affected Natalie a bit — some of her ...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. Just how are in-person sex workers continuing to do business during a pandemic? Human beings are always finding creative ways to have sex in the face of horrible circumstances, so the Covid-19 era should be no different. And according to Tareq, an escort from Los Angeles, people are still hiring. But what’s most intriguing about Tareq’s story is the divide between two types of clients he describes. One set of clients doesn’t seem to realize there’s a pandemic going on. Tareq te...

, a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. A handful of people I know have had babies during the pandemic, a typically joyous but stressful life event made 10 times more stressful, at least, by an accident of history. The sheer isolation of quarantine has led to many new parents essentially having to cocoon even more than usual with their newborns. But a particularly fraught story of pandemic birth comes from Jacinta, who lives in Melbourne and works in film distribution. Australia enacted incredibly stringent Covid-19 lockdown...

Finally, we can say it: 2020 is almost over. Good riddance. As we look to finally bring a close to this annus horribilis, America will be living amid the detritus for years — a devastating economic downturn, a generation of students behind in education, the collective psychic trauma of prolonged isolation. 2020 will be hard to forget. But in 100 years, when those of us who lived through the year that everything stopped have died out, how will future generations look back on what happened? How will history be able to encapsulate just how crazy 2020 was? We can only imagine an encyclopedia en...

The Lost Year: A new baby who didn’t know your face for days because you were wearing a mask Vox.com 12/28/2020 , a series of stories about our lived experiences in 2020, as told to Vox critic at large Emily VanDerWerff. A handful of people I know have had babies during the pandemic, a typically joyous but stressful life event made 10 times more stressful, at least, by an accident of history. The sheer isolation of quarantine has led to many new parents essentially having to cocoon even more than usual with their newborns. But a particularly fraught story of pandemic birth comes from Jaci...