coronavirus – millions of small things

David Handelman on coping with the COVID lockdown

“How have you been coping with COVID? If not the illness itself, then the whittled-down existence it has demanded?
I have a suggestion.” –David Handelman

click to read David’s blog post

live music comforts coronavirus patients and caregivers

“I’m hoping to offer a brief moment of comfort or distraction or beauty.” —Michelle Ross, violinist in Manhattan

click here to read the full NY Times article

“I hope it can give them hope.”

In our video, meet a New York doctor organizing remote classical concerts for her Covid-19 patients and colleagues. https://t.co/PXcN2lhNW7
— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 3, 2020

art against coronavirus in Philadelphia

“What you’re seeing is empty businesses, empty schools, empty playgrounds. What is the emotional toll that takes? How can we replace some of that emptiness with images of hope, resilience, anger, and also dreams of a future that is hopefully not far off?” –Mark Strandquist, Mural Arts Philadelphia

read the entire article in The Philadelphia Inquirer

quarantined Italians sing from their balconies

Italians in lockdown all over Italy are keeping each other company by singing, dancing and playing music from the balconies. A thread to celebrate the resilience of ordinary people. This is Salerno: pic.twitter.com/3aOchqdEpn
— Leonardo Carella (@leonardocarella) March 13, 2020

Click above to see the entire twitter thread.

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Click here for a Vox.com article, with photos and additional links.

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