Pandemic: My Country is on Its Knees

[sushigeau]

This piece is heart wrenching. All of the imagery was unbelievable. Dying people not only piled on beds, but on floors. Don’t forget the woman “kneeling by the side of a bed, embodying anguish and despair, rocking violently back and forth” who was “crazed by loss, watching the nurse firmly place a sheet over the body of an infant and take the

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[stochastic_mud]

Neat question! Lewis kept referring to future lectures with possible solutions to many of the problems he highlighted, but I wonder if he has a master plan in mind or just ideas.

I thought you piece had wonderful flow. You were concise and clear without being plain or simple.

You did a great job of clearly identifying the "details" that stood out for you and the "so what?" of those details (ie how you felt and what you thought).

[kelsseyy]

I agree with you 100% that the imagery and the stories that he tells create a depressing mood.A lthough I did feel inspired to do something about this crisis after i finished. I like that you backed up your thoughts by using relevent quotes and statistics pulled from the story. I acan see why Lewis is so in love with this country. The wide eyed, open hearted people who care for their families even at the age os 7 or 8.