Brutal day for music fans. First, the news that Joe Diffie has died of Covid-19 in Nashville. Now I just saw that John Prine has been hospitalized since Thursday and was intubated yesterday, condition critical. Hoping he can pull through, but he's older with (as we all now know to say) co-morbidities.
I think the most affecting thing I've heard about this scourge came from a doctor describing the scene in the ICU. Since visitors, including family members, aren't allowed, there are no human voices, the gravely ill dying alone in the presence only of other patients and the furiously toiling health care workers, the only sound the softly whooshing ventilators.
Here they are, better days:
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