The Coronavirus Response Does Not Take Place in a Vacuum

By Brett Oppenheim

Outside Allegheny Station in the Kensington section of Philadelphia. The neighborhood is home to open-air drug markets. Its residents have mixed feelings about the idea of a safe injection site.

“Similarly, University of Zurich researchers in 2015—using data from the time of the Great Recession—estimated that unemployment causes 45,000 suicides per year.”

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Publisher's Note:

This work is preserved in Merion West’s archive of articles and poems published from 2016 through early 2025. Explore the archive