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After more than a year of pandemic restrictions, many Americans are leaving their masks behind, making summer travel plans and joyously reuniting with family and friends. As more are vaccinated and new infections plummet, there is a sense that the worst of the pandemic is over in the United States.
But for people like Michele Preissler, 60, the worst has just begun.
Preissler lost her husband to COVID-19 in May, just as many restrictions were being lifted and life, for many, was starting to look more like normal. Customers were going without masks last week at the Walmart near her home in Pasadena, Maryland, where she was shopping for items for her husband s funeral.
Sarah Mervosh, The New York Times
Published: 01 Jun 2021 04:45 PM BdST
Updated: 01 Jun 2021 04:45 PM BdST Shelves at the home of Hollie Rivers filled with items commemorating her husband Antwone, who died of COVID-19, in Lincoln Park, Mich., May 28, 2021. COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the US are lower than they have been in many months and vaccination rates continue to slowly climb. But there are still about 450 deaths reported each day, and that has left hundreds of families dealing with a new kind of pandemic grief. (Brittany Greeson/The New York Times) A man kneels at a viewing for Darryl Preissler, who died of COVID-19, at a funeral home in Pasadena, Md., May 26, 2021. COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths in the US are lower than they have been in many months and vaccination rates continue to slowly climb. But there are still about 450 deaths reported each day, and that has left hundreds of families dealing with a new kind of pandemic grief. (Alyssa Schuk
Families losing a loved one to the coronavirus now described a surreal, lonely kind of grief, as the threat from the pandemic lessens in the United States.
Spoiler alert! This story has important details about WandaVision so beware if you haven t seen it.
In its 9-episode run, WandaVision was many things to many people.
The story of Wanda Maximoff, played by Elizabeth Olsen, reeling from the death of her other half, Vision (Paul Bettany), was a profound and unexpected exploration of the ways we cope with loss. And whether or not Marvel intended it, the trauma bubble she quarantined in became an apt metaphor for life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In WandaVision, we saw our own losses. We saw our own limitations. It is uncanny how perfectly it aligns with the collective psyche of the last year, said Robert Thompson, a professor of popular culture at Syracuse University. This really is a show about grief. .. It demonstrates once again that one can use this giant, generic construct (the MCU) that includes people with superpowers and do just about anything in it. And do just about anything well.