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s hard as it is and as impossible as it sometimes seems, we’re adjusting, all of us, getting used to life with the CORONAVIRUS, coping with the uncertainty of what comes next.

Musicians are adjusting to performing without their fans in the flesh (page 16). High school seniors are adjusting to losing school, the prom, sports and graduation parties (page 10). Artists are adjusting (page 20). Parents are adjusting (page 8). Doctors are adjusting (page 12). Shoppers are adjusting (page 9). Restaurants and charity-minded do-gooders are adjusting (page 23). Even scammers and profiteers are adjusting, seeing opportunity and advantage in sickness and fear (page 14).

All of this adjusting — even by those claiming toothpaste can kill COVID-19 — tells me that the strength and ingenuity of people is thriving still, and that as much as life changes, people have an innate ability to make it their own.

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s the potential impact and exponential spread of COVID-19 was just beginning to be understood, some leaders acted swiftly. They canceled large public gatherings, urged social distancing and rushed to secure medical supplies.

In Florida, though, state leaders generally shrugged off responsibility. Amusement parks and resorts suggested responses elsewhere were unnecessarily alarmist. People continued to crowd beaches. Many nightclubs stayed open.

Even as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis called for a ban on travelers from New York, he did little to limit social contact and, consequently, the spread of the pandemic within his state.

We’re likely about to see the catastrophic impact of these delays. But perhaps it’s worth noting one place where Florida leaders were quick to act.

Shortly after the canceling of 2020’s NCAA basketball tournament, the Florida State Senate sprung to action. A resolution was introduced and sped through the body to be unanimously passed by the senators.

This was weeks before the U.S. Senate and House similarly unanimously passed their own legislation to address COVID-19. And while that federal legislation’s ultimate effectiveness will undoubtedly be assessed and reassessed for decades to come, the Florida State Senate’s response is deserving of some examination and consideration as we consider our next steps to defeat this pandemic.

So what did that rushed Florida Senate resolution do? It declared victory.

The summary: “A resolution declaring the Florida State University Seminoles basketball team, by virtue of tremendous skill on the court and the heart and spirit shown by the players and

coaches this basketball season, the 2020 National College Athletic Association basketball champions by default upon cancellation of the NCAA tournament due to concerns raised by the spread of the novel coronavirus COVID-19.”

Instead of reducing social contact, securing medical supplies, or even making plans for safe elections this November, the Florida Senate prioritized stating that its basketball team was the champion by default.

The resolution makes a concise but unconvincing four-point case for the declaration, including pointing out that the Seminoles were ranked No. 4 in the national college basketball standings and had a good shot at challenging the top seeds. Meanwhile, as of April 6, the Florida governor continued to fail to issue a comprehensive “stay home” order, specifically suggesting large gatherings for religious services could continue.

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his response to our national crisis is admittedly as darkly comic as it is devastating for what it fails to do. But this unsupported hubris, obsession with meaningless optics and rush to declare victory have some unsettling parallels to the response from the White House.

Our president repeatedly suggests victory is at hand before being pulled back time and time again by public health experts from the brink of irresponsible and irreversible mistakes. And his early reluctance to face the potential tragedy

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ahead of us has magnified its eventual total scale.

Don’t get me wrong. It’s important in these times that we remain optimistic, confident that we can and will eventually prevail.

Because we will — and also because despair has its own ways of magnifying the impacts of what we face.

The reality is what’s ahead of us in the coming weeks is tragic, and most of us will come out of it on the other side certainly scarred from the damage to ourselves, families, friends and communities, but nevertheless with potential to move forward.

If we don’t keep in place social distancing well beyond the decline ... a reemergence is likely.

We’re already seeing signs of success here in Washington state, particularly where I live now in Seattle — the initial epicenter of the outbreak in our nation. The “curve” here is flattening as COVID-19’s spread slows from a combination of swift government action and individual responsibility. We’ve even been able to return some respirators to the national stockpile.

But attempting to move forward prematurely — to focus on the optics of victory, like who won a basketball tournament that never happened — rather than on continuing to do the communal work required to stamp this pandemic out could prove disastrous.

Once we pass the peak and the number of total cases in our region begins to fall, there is a different potential deception of perception that could occur: the belief that we can swiftly return to business as usual.

As I noted, there is increasing evidence that Washington state might be particularly effective at flattening the curve and consequently will decrease the impact of this pandemic on our communities. However, if we don’t keep in place social distancing well beyond the decline — and even the peak — a reemergence is likely.

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ltimately, the greatest threat we face is a premature declaration of victory: a return to normalcy that lasts only briefly as COVID-19 comes roaring back.

Obviously, we still have at least several weeks to go before we reach that point, but steeling ourselves now to be in this together for the long haul is essential. Even as we eventually restore regular travel and reopen businesses, we will need to continue to wear masks, wash our hands, and work together to eliminate this virus.

There will be no true champion of the NCAA basketball tournament this year. This is disappointing for the players, coaches and fans. It is a genuine sacrifice — just as many others are delaying weddings, missing graduations, losing desperately needed income and painfully unable to attend funerals. These are not all equivalent losses, but all are difficult.

Let’s not let these sacrifices go to waste, but instead honor them — including the Florida State University Seminoles — by doing what it takes over the long-term to truly achieve a permanent victory. n John T. Reuter, a former Sandpoint City Councilman, studied at the College of Idaho and currently resides in Seattle. He has been active in protecting the environment, expanding LGBT rights and Idaho’s Republican Party politics.

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If this is about saving lives, how I can I justify feeling sad about a few lost adventures?

BY TARA ROBERTS

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his was supposed to be their spring. My son H just turned 11, his brother D is 8-and-a-half. We live in an idyllic neighborhood in Moscow, Idaho: oaks and maples towering over 1960s ranchers with big back yards, parks and playgrounds and ballfields, friends around every corner.

When the snow fell in January, the boys bundled up and waddled down the driveway dragging sleds. When the sun came out in February, every weekend afternoon was punctuated by a grinning neighbor kid or two knocking on the front door.

A few weeks ago, D had his first sleepover without his big brother. H walked to the grocery store a mile away by himself for the first time, rushing home to report he was six cents short and needed to go back.

This was supposed to be the spring of freedom for my boys.

But for almost two weeks now, they haven’t left the house without me or my husband. The lockdown seemed to hit our neighborhood in waves — on our first awkward, Mom-chaperoned walk, they eyed kids crawling on the playground at their just-shuttered school. H stared at the sidewalk when a pack of girls he knows dashed by, someone shouting, “Don’t make eye contact, it might spread the virus!”

I hoped I was overreacting, that my kids would be back on that playground in days, their independence restored, their world as safe as they’ve always known it. But as the gravity of the pandemic sunk in, the streets grew quieter and quieter.

When two weeks of canceled school became a month became a month and half — with everyone whispering it might be more — I saw the magical spring I’d imagined for my kids go dark.

Among all the losses and horrors that have torn me from sleep or invaded my thoughts in the last few weeks, this has hit unexpectedly hard.

Sometimes I try to reason myself out of it. If this is about saving lives, how I can I justify feeling sad about a few lost adventures? I recognize my privilege in this situation, too. My husband and I have jobs that translate well to working from home, so we haven’t worried about child care, unlike so many other families. We own a small but comfortable home with a big bedroom for the kids and a yard to run around in. All in all, this isn’t a bad place for two little boys to be stuck for a few weeks.

Or a few months.

Still, I remind myself that I, and everyone else, should be allowed to mourn what we need to mourn in this bizarre and exhausting time. I have to let myself grieve, and I have to let my children know it’s OK to grieve, too.

I don’t want to force joy, as much as we need it. I feel sappy when I say the losses help us recognize what we have. But the bright moments keep fighting their way in – so often in this area of loss.

H had his first phone call with his best friend, who lives three blocks away. His world has always been touch-screens and FaceTime — he didn’t even know how to hold a phone and just talk into it. I cracked up as he held it away from his face, shouting enthusiastically, tripping through how to have a conversation in this odd new way.

Another day, D was silent when he was supposed to be video-chatting with his close friend from down the street. I stuck my head in the room to see what had happened and found he and his buddy were just watching each other play.

On a recent Mom-chaperoned walk, we passed the house of the boys’ most frequent partners-in-roaming-the-neighborhood and discovered they’d drawn games and notes in sidewalk chalk outside their house. They were waiting at the window, laughing and cheering as H and D tumbled through hopscotch and read every message aloud.

They aren’t running around the neighborhood or having sleepovers or playing in the park, but my boys have never been so happy to hear their friends’ voices or see their faces. Every little connection matters.

This isn’t the spring I wanted for my kids. Nobody, obviously, wanted this. But it’s what we’ve got.

This is our spring. n Tara Roberts is a writer and college journalism adviser who lives in Moscow with her husband, sons and poodle. Her work has appeared in Moss, Hippocampus and a variety of regional publications.

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COMMENT | CORONAVIRUS neck. My supply chain wants a Snickers. My supply chain’s in love. My supply chain fell out of my pocket and I can’t find it anywhere.

The emptiness of our grocery shelves looks like scarcity. And it is.

And it isn’t.

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y recurring childhood nightmare was populated with tiny figures marching beneath giant objects as I watched on the periphery, unable to speak. Ants bringing stuff back to their colony, basically. Not scary, not when I described it in terms of what it looked like. I knew this then, at four or five or six, as I tried to explain why I’d screamed myself awake to the parent who’d appeared by my bedside. They didn’t understand why I was afraid, and didn’t need to. Like me, they were responding to a feeling, not a good reason for that feeling. The words I have now for why this dream terrified me must have come later; they’re too sophisticated for a child that young. In the dream, all was out of proportion.

Our present days of COVID-19 hoarding reminds me of my old bad dream. In every place that sells groceries, apologetic signs hang where food and medicine should be. In the absence of everyday items I took for granted, what’s left on the shelves looks bigger and more useless than it actually is.

But I’m an adult now. I have bigger words. I have more control. I know that when my eye probes the gaps in our food supply and my heart sinks, I can look around the edges of those holes and find plenty to eat. Maybe not AP flour, but cornmeal. Maybe not rice, but barley.

Maybe not kale, but dandelion greens. The goods left may seem less precious because they are still there, but they too will feed my family. We still have enough to eat.

I’ve lived my life surrounded by an American version of plenty. If anything, I’ve been on guard against that plenty, against the waste of what I don’t need. Our leaders reassure us there is plenty of food, nobody panic. But bare shelves persist. Each one is evidence of how very appropriate it is, in this moment, to be afraid. To panic.

With the fear, some curiosity: I’ve given up trying to understand the toilet paper thing, but why isn’t anyone buying Cadbury eggs? The shelves of fine chocolate and cheap chocolate still burst with packaged pleasure, all of which is shelf stable and suitable for stress-eating.

Where I am, there are plenty of pork butts and fancy cheese and smoked salmon, but no beefsteaks or ground meat or frozen vegetables. No whole-body chickens but plenty of boneless skinless easy-to-cook chicken breasts, which I thought would be in high demand. No wheat bread but several loaves of white. Lots of lemons, apples, and broccoli, but few potatoes and winter squashes — no butternut, no acorn. No cheap tomatoes but plenty of gourmet San Marzanos in the pop-art can I always want to buy because it is pretty, but don’t because I am thrifty.

Into the cart it goes!

I’ve given up trying to understand the toilet paper thing, but why isn’t anyone buying Cadbury eggs?

Fresh vegetables and fruits remain in mostly fine supply. For the first time I’m thankful many of us don’t know how to preserve fresh food, as my neighbors seem to be loading up on everything that will last without intervention. So far, there’s plenty of greens for everyone.

Or perhaps this produce remains because people fear it’s been contaminated by unwashed hands inspecting apples for bruises and parsley for rot. Maybe more of us want food from a can, food swaddled in plastic wrap, as if no one ever touched it. If that’s the case, the healthiest food in the grocery store is now the food we’re most afraid of.

I wonder if these shortages show the particular tastes of my community, or if what I can’t find at my local supermarket, no one can find anywhere. Which missing items connect me to worried shoppers across the country, and which items available here would be snatched up in a second elsewhere? The pork butt, for example. The dandelion greens.

We buy two of everything we can afford and leave the rest.

“How’s your supply chain?” my husband and I ask each other. My supply chain is strong, we say. My supply chain is broken, we say. My supply chain’s around your

m trying to imagine an emptiness of different proportions. Maybe an emptiness that is also space.

Like the space we seek when we walk into the woods, or shut the bedroom door, or take a hot bath, or play piano, or breathe deeply, or pray.

Maybe you, like me, would like to know what to do while you sit at home, considering the unknown. We should do what we can, right? We should act! But most of us have been asked to do the opposite. It’s hard to feel safe not-doing, not-knowing, while coronavirus mangles the proportions of our lives. Too much time and not enough money, too much information and not enough facts, too much bottled water and not enough toilet paper. While we eye this emptiness that’s telling us we don’t have enough, can we help each other trust that with a little imagination, we’ll get by on what’s left around the edges?

I like how my friend, the poet Emily Kendal Frey, is handling her uncertainty by offering poem scaffolds on Instagram (@emilykendalfreypoetry) for people to complete, like: IT FEELS It comes on, it _______________________ You look outside ______________________________is still __________________________________ Your mom__________________________ Other people are____________________ Each tree seems to___________________ While a person you once loved is ___________________________________ Under the raggedy thing we call time The lines are as straight and bare as the grocery store shelves of my nightmares, but these blanks are possibilities, not denials. People have been filling them in and sending their poems back to Emily, who publishes the results in her feed. I like the game of this. I like how it engages strangers with an emptiness they have the power to fill. I like the poems even more when Emily first posts them, when they’re full of room, not yet stuffed with words, a frame balanced by the space it contains, everything in proportion. Each space is a question that doesn’t need an answer, but can hold one if you want it to.

Unlike the rest of our questions, the ones that plague us.

Like: Will someone I love get sick? Or die? Like: When will it be safe to leave our homes?

We are collaborators in a giant effort to thwart a tiny organism. Each day in quarantine is a question no one can answer for anyone else. In the spaces we take for ourselves on behalf of others — for the sake of everyone’s health — we protect the opportunity to keep asking that question, keep playing with answers. The easiest of which, I hope, is what’s for dinner. n Kate Lebo is the author of the cookbook Pie School and the poetry chapbook Seven Prayers to Cathy McMorris Rodgers. Her first collection of nonfiction, The Book of Difficult Fruit, is forthcoming from FSG next year. In 2012, Lebo and her husband, Sam Ligon, started Pie & Whiskey — raucous literary events featuring pie, whiskey and readings about those eponymous things. Together they edited a 2017 anthology called Pie & Whiskey: Writers Under the Influence of Butter & Booze.

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EDUCATION

The Lost Year For high school seniors, the coronavirus brings abrupt end to “hallmark events”

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

Elaina Nixon doubts she’ll have the commencement ceremony she always dreamed of.

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henever her mom drove her through downtown Spokane, Elaina Nixon had her sights on the place where she’d one day graduate high school.

“Hey mom!” Nixon would say, pointing out the First Interstate Center for the Arts. “In six years, I’m going to be on that stage graduating!”

She thought the same thing four years ago as she began her freshman year at North Central, where both her parents also graduated from, and then again weeks ago, as she started buying decorations for her graduation party and prepared to send out announcements.

But now, Nixon doubts she’ll have the commencement ceremony she always dreamed of. Prom is likely out the window. And she wonders if the day has already passed when all her classmates were together in one place for the last time.

“To know it’s all still up in the air, how it’s all going to go down, is kind of nerve-wracking,” she says.

Among the seemingly endless impacts coronavirus has had on normal life, the pandemic has robbed millions of seniors across the country of their final days of K-12 education. On Monday, Gov. Jay Inslee announced that schools in Washington are closed for the rest of the year. In Spokane, graduation parties are being scrapped, proms are being canceled and grades are left uncertain. And if their path after high school once felt clear, it’s only been clouded by a tanking economy.

“We’re kind of just stuck at home, and we can’t really have the experiences that seniors before us had,” says Ariel Hall, a senior at Shadle Park High School.

On top of that, students who are immunocompromised like Nixon — born with cystic fibrosis — still must deal with the constant threat of contracting COVID-19.

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aden Bowton is waking up a little later than usual these days. Around 11 am on a Thursday, Bowton, a senior at Ferris High School, starts to roll out of bed. His plan for the day: homework, a workout, and a Zoom call with friends. With the extra time he has now, he’s even started reading Harry Potter.

In a normal year, Bowton’s day would look much different. He’d be in school prepping for his AP tests, playing soccer and getting ready for prom. He’d always heard from his four older siblings how great senior year was.

“I thought it would be my turn to go through what they went through,” Bowton says.

Hall, the Shadle student, says she envisioned her senior year to be like something out of High School Musical — celebrating the end of something but ready to begin something new.

“I thought it was literally going to be the best time in my life,” Hall says.

Reality, however, is far from what seniors envisioned.

Bowton, who has a scholarship to play soccer at the University of Washington in the fall, was supposed to play the first soccer game of the season on the day Gov. Inslee announced the statewide school closure. He found out about it in his calculus class, when it was announced over the intercom. He says everyone was shocked, disappointed and confused. What would the end of the year be like?

Hall, student body president at Shadle, plays fastpitch softball. Going into the season, she had high aspirations and thought the team had a good chance of going to state. Those aspirations were gone with the school closure. Since then, she’s been trying to keep up on school work.

She’s picked up hobbies that she’d left behind, like piano, painting and writing. While she’s tried to keep her spirits up, she admits it’s “hard to maintain positivity.”

The stakes are higher for Nixon. Cystic fibrosis impacts her lungs and makes her more prone to getting sick. A few years ago, she says she was in the hospital frequently before doctors found out her body wasn’t producing antibodies.

She gets regular treatment at least twice a day to loosen up the fluid in her lungs.

Nixon kept a close eye on what was happening with coronavirus when it first was spreading in China. Her family has taken every precaution. Even groceries delivered to the house are stored in the garage until any germs go away.

She was already away from school by the time the statewide closure was announced. Her dad, a firefighter for the city of Spokane, has been staying in a camper van away from the house so that he doesn’t expose her to the coronavirus.

“I’m definitely worried,” Nixon says. “Our family has a good handle on contamination

protocols and things like that. Other people’s families aren’t as much. There are people who aren’t taking it as seriously, so it makes me nervous because you can’t know what everyone else has been doing.”

While she knows it’s necessary to stay home, she still misses planning for those big senior moments. She had already talked to friends about prom. She planned to wear the dress her mom wore.

“I was getting so excited, thinking that was going to be me,” she says.

“Those things are just huge hallmark events in kids’ lives.

They forever live in their minds.”

Nixon’s tried to stay busy the last few weeks.

She has virtual karaoke sessions with her friends.

She practices driving with her mom. But everything feels strange.

“We’re trying to have a sense of normalcy,” Nixon says. “But it’s just kind of in the back of your mind that you’re trying to be normal, and it’s really not normal.”

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or the time being, the commencement ceremony remains on the calendar for North Central High School. Principal Steve Fisk says he’s crossing his fingers that it can remain.

But it’s not just graduation and prom that seniors will miss, he says. It’s the last day of school.

The yearbook signing. The senior all-nighter.

“Those things are just huge hallmark events in kids’ lives,” Fisk says. “They forever live in their minds.”

Now, it’s the coronavirus that will always be riveted in their minds when they think of senior year.

But in Fisk’s view, schools can try to create new memories for them. Fisk says the school is doing whatever it can to brighten the day for families and communicate pertinent information.

“Fortunately or unfortunately, I’ve had to use words like ‘Instagram,’” Fisk jokes.

District administration even broached the idea of a “virtual prom,” before deciding that might not be feasible, says Shawn Jordan, director of secondary schools for the district. But the district may find a creative way to have a graduation ceremony if it can’t be held at its normal time.

“Seniors earning that diploma, that’s a major event in someone’s life,” Jordan says. “We want to preserve that experience.”

After that? Many seniors will go off to college in a world still battling the coronavirus. Or they’ll try to find a job in an economy ravaged by the pandemic.

Hall isn’t so sure things will go back to normal. Her generation will likely be changed by this. But there is one silver lining for high school seniors, she says.

“Everybody else is in the same boat, too,” she says. “At least we’ll be going through it together.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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NEWS | HEALTH CARE

Dr. Mathew Rawlins says doctors need to consider that they’re not just postponing surgeries to preserve equipment, but because patients might be at greater risk of getting COVID-19 if they’re in the hospital.

Can It Wait?

For both patients and health care organizations in the Inland Northwest, cutting elective surgeries comes at a cost

BY WILSON CRISCIONE

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hen Washington state banned elective surgeries last month, Dr. Elizabeth Grosen knew she had a difficult call to make.

Grosen, a gynecologic oncologist in Spokane, had a patient with a suspicious ovarian mass that could spread quickly if cancerous. She scheduled a surgery that would provide answers. But because the state halted non-urgent surgeries, Grosen told the patient the procedure would need to wait.

“I called and said, ‘I’m sorry, they’re canceling all surgeries for now,’” Grosen says. “I explained that this is something I have no control over.”

As hospitals in the Inland Northwest prepare for increased COVID-19 hospitalizations, the ban on elective surgeries to preserve resources can leave doctors, patients and health care organizations in a difficult spot. Doctors must estimate whether delaying surgeries could lead to significant harm or death of a patient — a determination that isn’t always easy. For patients, it often means they must wait indefinitely even as they experience chronic pain. And hospital systems, without these procedures, are going broke as they brace for an influx of patients.

Fortunately, Grosen was able to reschedule her patient’s surgery. But local surgeons describe to the Inlander other procedures that have to wait: hip replacements,

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gallstone removals and, in some cases, cancer surgeries.

And they wonder how long those surgeries can be put off before the backlog catches up with them.

“I think that’s the biggest worry from our standpoint,” says Dr. Stephen Pakkianathan, president of the Spokane County Medical Society, a membership organization for physicians. “There really isn’t a good end in sight.”

THE SECOND SURGE

In the Providence Sacred Heart and Holy Family operating rooms, everything is being analyzed “through a military-style triage” during the pandemic, says Dr. Raymond Lance, a urologist for Spokane Urology.

Lance is part of an operating room committee for Providence tasked with making those decisions. And as an Iraq war veteran, he doesn’t make the military analogy lightly. In Iraq he might have had several people who had kidney stones in significant pain. But in a mass casualty event, their surgery would have to wait. In this case, the mass casualty situation could be COVID-19 patients.

The decision to ration those supplies isn’t the difficult part, he says.

“What’s difficult is talking to people who are having to be put on hold and saying, ‘I’m not exactly sure when I’m going to be able to do your case,’” Lance says.

Under last month’s statewide order, all hospitals and surgery centers must cancel all elective procedures, unless doing so would “cause harm to the patient within the next three months.” In a statement, a Providence spokesperson says any patient’s surgery that is delayed will take place “as soon as possible” to ensure the “safety of our patients and our frontline caregivers.” Each case, Providence says, is carefully evaluated by a multidisciplinary team including surgeons and clinicians. And each decision is crucial: Any surgery done means the use of gloves, masks, gowns and sometimes ventilators — all of which are in short supply nationally.

Lance says Providence operating rooms are still doing cancer procedures, but he notes that “not all cancers are created equal.” Prostate cancer, he says, might be able

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to wait more than, say, pancreatic cancer. But forcing a prostate cancer patient to wait can still impact them psychologically.

Other patients are in pain — Lance says patients with kidney stone disease or urinary tract disorders still might be “suffering day in and day out.”

“They might have a catheter in because they can’t urinate. It sucks to have a catheter in. And it especially sucks when you don’t know when you’re going to get treatment to relieve the problem,” Lance says.

Dr. Timothy Bax, a general surgery specialist for Columbia Surgical Specialists in Spokane, says his surgery group will still treat emergencies like appendicitis, bleeding ulcers and most cancer surgeries.

Bax, too, says it can be difficult telling patients their surgery doesn’t make the cut. Patients who have gallstones causing pain, but not a bad infection, may be told they need to wait. He says physicians have “tremendous empathy” for patients in those situations.

“Anybody who has a problem that’s uncomfortable wants it fixed and wants it fixed yesterday,” Bax says.

“There’s only so many resources available for doing surgeries. If we take everybody who says ‘this is really bothering me,’ then we’re going to run out of equipment.”

MultiCare Deaconess is largely in the same boat. Dr. Mathew Rawlins, board chair for MultiCare Rockwood Clinic, says doctors need to consider that they’re not just postponing surgeries to preserve equipment, but because patients might be at greater risk of getting COVID-19 if they’re in the hospital. Rawlins does a fair amount of hernia surgeries, and he says some of those can wait for a while. Others can become emergent fast.

The major question right now, he says, is that nobody knows how long patients will be waiting. Things for the time being look OK in Spokane, which he says benefited by early actions taken by the state. The models he’s seen show a peak in cases around mid-to-late April and hospitals able to handle increased COVID-19 hospitalizations.

But what if it’s longer?

“To me, the most difficult thing is trying to decide

what should be done now, and what can wait, and how long it can wait,” Rawlins says. “Because we don’t know how long we’re going to be waiting.”

He’s not only worried about the surge of patients from COVID-19, but about the backlog of non-emergency patients who develop further problems and become emergent within a month or two.

“That’s going to be the second surge, as far as I’m concerned,” he says.

THE BOTTOM LINE

At Deaconess, Rawlins says surgeries have been cut down by about two-thirds. Financially, that’s a problem for health care organizations.

“I think everybody in health care is going to be struggling tremendously from this,” Rawlins says. “Surgery drives the financial performance of hospitals and health systems.”

Providence tells the Inlander that the “overall financial impact to our hospital system is still unknown at this time.” And Kootenai Health in Coeur d’Alene declined to comment for this story.

But it’s no secret that canceling procedures affects the bottom line.

And rural hospitals have been hit particularly hard. Last week, Pullman Regional Hospital reduced pay for employees to buy some time before potentially having to shut down completely.

“I’m very concerned about the potential permanent impacts to our rural health system,” says Jacqueline Barton True, vice president of rural programs for the Washington State Hospital Association.

It’s a “triple whammy,” she says: Hospitals had to cancel procedures; they didn’t have much cash on hand anyway; and outside of Seattle, hospitals mostly are not seeing a large volume of COVID-19 patients.

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“What matters is how many people are going to die from [COVID-19]. Everything is trying to minimize fatalities.”

“The facilities are pretty empty,” Barton True says. “They’re having an influx in cost and a huge decline of revenue.”

And if rural facilities shut down, that funnels more of the burden to urban centers to provide primary care, long-term care and emergency services. The federal stimulus package provides $100 billion for hospitals, but Barton True says nobody’s quite sure how far that money will go. Rawlins, for one, says he’s not an expert on the stimulus but thinks the medical industry “is going to need some major propping up by the government.”

Soren Olson, a surgeon with Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists, says their group is doing maybe 10 percent to 20 percent of what they’d normally be doing. Employees have been laid off, and they don’t know when things will turn around.

But that’s not what matters right now, he says.

“What matters is how many people are going to die from [COVID-19],” Olson says. “Everything is trying to minimize fatalities.”

As a trauma surgeon, he says his job may change when ICUs start seeing a surge in cases.

“I’ll do whatever it takes. I’ll take temperatures — you take the Hippocratic oath and say, ‘I’ll do what’s right for the community,’” he says.

If it was only one hospital like Deaconess, Rawlins says, it could be buried and potentially closed down. But every hospital faces these financial challenges. And oddly, that makes it a bit easier to deal with.

“When it’s happening to every hospital in the country,” Rawlins says, “It’s not so scary.” n wilsonc@inlander.com

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Entrepreneurs or Profiteers?

In the fog of COVID-19, distinguishing scammers and price gougers from honest dealers gets tricky

BY DANIEL WALTERS

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o some people, “virus” is just another word for “opportunity.”

For example, consider the suspicious caller who left a voicemail on Spokane social worker Rexann Heston’s work phone last Thursday, claiming the IRS wanted her security information so she could get her coronavirus stimulus check faster. She didn’t fall for it.

“I called back and messed with him,” Heston says.

“He said, ‘This is serious business. If you don’t give me your information, I can’t give you your check.’ Eventually he started cussing at me and told me that I was an asshole.”

It’s exactly the sort of scam that Brett DeLange, the Idaho deputy attorney general who heads up the state’s consumer protection bureau, anticipated as soon as the president signed the stimulus bill.

“The federal government is not going to contact you by email or text to ask you for information like that,” DeLange reiterates.

There are other schemes out there, too: The Spokane Police Department received a report of a letter being sent to people claiming to be from a “CVL Department of Health” on Garland Avenue offering a “cure” for COVID. Across the country, attorneys general and federal prosecutors have been sounding the alarm about scammers posing as police officers, doctors, health workers and scientists, promising fake testing kits, phony vaccines, malwareladen mobile apps and shady investment opportunities.

“Crime seems to love chaos,” says William Hyslop, U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Washington.

“When we see periods of natural crisis, there were people out there who seem to be as innovative as possible to prey on others.”

But law enforcement officials are also scrutinizing the price hikes and promises made by comparatively legitimate businesses — and there the line between businesses adapting to the pandemic and those taking advantage of it begins to get hazy.

UNDER THE MASKS

Last month, Amazon came to the Washington State Attorney General with an offering: The names of five major Washington-state based “price gougers” who’d been selling coronavirus-related products like hand sanitizer and N95 masks at dramatic markups on their Amazon storefronts.

The list included Devon Mahdi, a self-described e-

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commerce “hustler,” with a business address in Spokane.

According to a press release issued last week from the Washington AG’s office, Mahdi had raised “the price of an 8-ounce bottle of hand sanitizer from just over $3.50 in January to an average price of more than $25 — a more than 600 percent increase.”

In a March 26 letter to Mahdi, AG Bob Ferguson threatened a $2,000-per-violation penalty if Mahdi continued to sell N95 masks, hand sanitizer or disinfectant wipes “at an unreasonably excessive price.” (Mahdi did not return interview requests last week from the Inlander and other media outlets.)

AG representatives have also been conducting inperson price-gouging investigations into brick-and-mortar stores, including in Eastern Washington. Currently, however, Washington state’s law doesn’t explicitly address price gouging, leaving the AG to rely on broad language in the state’s Consumer Protection Act barring “unfair or deceptive” pricing practices.

Price-gouging allegations have abounded in Idaho, too.

“We’ve got a lot of complaints on gas, quite a few on toilet paper and hand sanitizers,” DeLange says.

But DeLange notes that Idaho’s price-gouging law only focuses on four categories of items — food, fuel, medicine and water — not masks, toilet paper or hand sanitizer. So instead, the AG’s office has been writing letters appealing to the store operators’ decency. “‘We’re in an emergency,’” DeLange says he writes. “‘Does it really make sense to charge 25 bucks for hand sanitizer?’”

In some cases, it’s fallen to large, private businesses to police the industry.

Like Mahdi, Scott Cook, owner of Lucky Birds Brands, an e-commerce company in Spokane, had his eye on the opportunity associated with the coronavirus.

Earlier this year, he had ordered 30,000 children’s N95-quality facemasks from a Chinese factory, planning to sell child-sized “Munchkin Masks,” complete with kidfriendly princess and truck designs, for $14.99 for 3-pack — netting him a $1.50 per sale.

He didn’t consider that price gouging. “[Some sites] were selling a single mask for $19.99,” Cook says. But before he’d even manufactured the masks, Amazon began to automatically delete nearly all N95 mask listings — and his proposed product was caught up in the wave of coronavirus-related restrictions put in place by big e-commerce sites.

While he hasn’t given up hope for Munchkin Masks in the long term, Cook says he’s directing his recent efforts to “double down on helping people,” including with plans to distribute 1,000 free single-barrier cotton masks outside his office on Trent Avenue.

But grifters continue grifting. Last Thursday night, Cook noted an Amazon listing selling a single “N95 Anti-air Pollution face m-a-s-k with Respirator” for $10.99, using dashes to prevent Amazon’s algorithm from flagging the words.

“Punk,” Cook wrote to the Inlander in an email. “My data shows me they sold 400+ units in the last 48 hours.”

The worst part? It wasn’t actually an N95 mask they were selling, he says, but rather one offering less protection.

THE AIR IN THERE

Lately, DeLange has begun seeing signs popping up in southwestern Idaho’s Treasure Valley.

“We are seeing businesses claiming that they’ll fumigate your home to eradicate the virus,” he says. “There’s no scientific evidence to substantiate that claim.”

Quacks have already been flooding online marketplaces with all sorts of snake oil: New York Attorney General Letitia James has sent cease-and-desist letters to vendors like Infowars host Alex Jones, who promised his colloidal silver toothpaste could obliterate the coronavirus.

There’s another type of product being sold as a tool to fight the virus that’s more defensible, but still controversial: air purifiers.

In New York, James sent out a letter to three air-purifier manufacturers in late March, calling on them to stop their COVID-19 ads that claim their “$1,500 air purifiers can effectively prevent people from contracting the virus by removing the virus particles from the air.”

In particular, James wrote, she worried that the New York ads were misrepresenting COVID-19 as primarily an airborne disease — the sort that air purifiers specialize in dealing with — instead of one spread through droplets.

While recent studies have raised the possibility that the virus is more airborne than originally thought, the Environmental Protection Agency website still answers “no” to the question “Will an air purifier protect me and my family from COVID-19 in my home?”

Locally, as concerns about the coronavirus began ramping up, The Barton Boys, a Spokane heating and air conditioning company, began running radio and print ads that touted air purifiers’ record of virus destruction.

“Want to kill viruses?” an ad in the Spokesman-Review reads. “We install home purification units that will kill 99 percent of viruses and bacteria in the air and on surfaces.”

Jon Brotnov, who owns Barton Boys in Spokane and Mike’s Mechanical in Lewiston, Idaho, says he’s not currently running the ads for budgetary reasons, but has no misgivings about them.

“We didn’t say in any of our ads that ‘this killed coronavirus,’” Brotnov says.

But he also felt the ads were necessary to let customers know that there were “products available that can possibly help them and make their homes safer.”

Advanced purifiers, like RGF Environmental Group’s REME Halo, tout the dispersal of “ionizedhydroperoxides” as being effective in sanitizing surfaces as well as the air. RGF cites a slew of Kansas State University studies to claim that the Halo kills “up to” 99 percent of “bacteria, mold and viruses.” Brotnov says he called the manufacturer to speak with them directly.

“They explicitly said it kills 99 percent of viruses, but they haven’t specifically tested it on the coronavirus,” he says.

But Barton Boys sales manager Steve Perry says the radio ads made him uneasy.

His concern, he says, wasn’t “legal at all. It’s reputational.” He says he got a few calls questioning whether it was ethical to run the ads as a pandemic ramped up.

The Barton Boys had spent decades building up trust with customers, he says, and he wanted to make sure not to risk that with a campaign that could be accused of relying on fear.

While the purifiers they sell are great, Perry says, he informed anyone who called in that they weren’t guaranteed to kill the coronavirus.

Instead, he stresses the purifiers’ remarkable ability to fight bad smells and irritating allergens.

“It’s amazing what it does to odor,” Perry says.

“But odor is not a pandemic.” n danielw@inlander.com

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Islands in the Stream In lieu of in-person performances, musicians are using social media and live streams to connect with fans

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

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sk any working musician why they play live, why they lug their equipment to and from bars and restaurants and wine-tasting rooms week after week, and they’ll point to the same nebulous thing: It’s the connection with an audience. There’s nothing quite like performing a piece of music and having someone respond to it in physical and emotional ways.

But in the weeks since venues have shut their doors in response to the spread of COVID-19, those same musicians are having to rely on another type of connection — their internet connection.

We talked with several artists who have been taking advantage of the virtual world in different ways, and they spoke about how they’re coping and how they anticipate the musical landscape changing once things get back to normal.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Nathan Weinbender is the Inlander’s Music & Film editor. He is also a film critic for Spokane Public Radio, where he has co-hosted the weekly film review show Movies 101 since 2011.

Most nights, Lucas Brookbank Brown is performing in front of an audience, including as a host of open mics on Monday and Wednesday nights at the Red Room Lounge in downtown Spokane. But that changed for obvious reasons, and it happened overnight.

“Everybody’s kind of scrambling all of a sudden,” Brown says. “It forces that burst of innovation that the tech industry and the music industry is so good at, adjusting real quick to what’s going on. I have friends all over the country and they never get to see a show [in person]. I think a lot of people are finding out there are other benefits to streaming.”

He was quick to jump on the live-streaming wagon, performing on Facebook and Instagram with fellow musician Melissa Landrus and with his hip-hop fusion band Kung Fu Vinyl. Using a device called an iRig, he was able to create a virtual soundboard on his phone, and now he’s considering moving one of his weekly open mics to a live stream, setting up Venmo to receive tips.

Darin Hilderbrand has long played four or five solo gigs a week, and he was actually in the middle of a set at the South Hill Grill when the governor’s order to close all bars and restaurants was made official.

“People started getting the announcement over their phones. All the wait staff were freaking out, and I’m trying to catch what they’re saying in between songs,” he recalls.

Hildebrand says he’d tried the live-streaming platform Twitch in the past but didn’t get much out of it, but he still had studio-quality lights and a high-resolution webcam laying around. He decided to go live on his Facebook fan page one afternoon.

“I just put up a post saying, ‘I’m thinking about maybe doing a Facebook Live. What kind of songs do you guys want to hear?’” he says. “And I got a ton of requests. They flooded in.”

Now he’s doing them every Sunday, and he’s still working through that list of requests. Brown had a similar reaction from viewers, likely because it’s filling the void for people who typically go to shows every weekend.

“I know a lot of people who love to go out and see live music. It’s their No. 1 form of entertainment,” Brown says. “Going out and getting that live music fix is important for our sanity.”

DIFFERENT, BUT THE SAME

Before she was a regular presence in the local music scene, country musician Jenny Anne Mannan would often hop on Instagram to perform a song or two for her followers. But all the self-promotion eventually got to her, she says, and she made herself more scarce on the platform.

And then a March show at the Lucky You Lounge was canceled, and so she got back on Instagram to share some music. She has also collaborated with Karli Ingersoll and Caroline Fowler on a song through an app called Acapella, which allows musicians to perform individual parts of a composition and then stitch them together.

“All of a sudden, everyone needs to be a tech expert,” Mannan says.

Save for the concerts that aren’t happening, though, Mannan says her routine is more or less unchanged: Both she and her husband are usually at home anyway, and their kids are homeschooled.

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PLUGGED IN

While not every musician has taken to the internet to perform live shows during the (almost) nationwide lockdown, it sure seems that way.

Here’s a list of some more ways to connect with your favorite music until the days when we’re all dancing together again.

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Well, not actually join, but you can join the musicians on the symphony’s Facebook page for online performances and fun bits of news, like Music Director James Lowe’s getting a puppy.

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But now she’s fitting regular Instagram sessions into her schedule, sitting in front of a camera in her living room and knocking out a few tunes on an acoustic guitar. Mannan thinks this kind of hyperconnectivity — the new trend of artists who wouldn’t normally share their work on social media becoming more transparent — could likely become the new normal.

“It would be so good for people who have something to share but can’t necessarily support a tour,” she says. “I hope that people make space for that in their lives, the way people used to sit around and listen to the radio.”

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THE BEAT GOES ON

Right now, Spokane native Jarred Katz was supposed to be in the middle of a tour with his funk band the Dip. But that five-week run got the axe, just like every other tour in the world, so he’s stuck in Seattle. He’s been visiting the band’s practice space and filming drum exercise videos, then putting them up on Facebook and interacting with other players who are also working on their techniques.

“It’s giving me a little bit of structure in my day, and in my week,” Katz says, “and it allows more conversations to happen between fellow musicians, but more specifically

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Every Monday at 8 pm Eastern time, Metallica is posting a live concert video from their archives on their YouTube and Facebook.

NOT DEAD YET

Dead & Company, the band formed by three Grateful Dead guys along with John Mayer, are offering streams of archived concerts every Saturday night. The band is asking for donations to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund from folks enjoying what they’ve dubbed the “Couch Tour.” Catch the shows on the Dead & Company Facebook.

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LIVE FROM SOMEWHERE

The brilliant host of Live From Here, Chris Thile, is releasing archived shows and new performances delivered from isolation via the radio variety show’s Facebook.

COUNTRY COOL

Singer/songwriter Amanda Shires is hosting live sessions she’s calling I So Lounging on her YouTube channel, where her hubby Jason Isbell is a regular guest.

PHISH ON

The Vermont jam-banders Phish recently debuted their new studio album Sigma Oasis on their website. They’re also hosting “Dinner and a Movie” every Tuesday night, posting archived concert videos weekly at 5:30 pm.

STAGEIT AT YOUR HOUSE

Stageit.com has been hosting small shows online since before the coronavirus outbreak, but they’ve gotten a lot more attention thanks to folks like Rhett Miller from the Old 97s doing a series of live performances there.

GRAMMYS THAT DON’T SUCK

The Grammy Museum is posting a series of concerts on its website and calling it Museum At Home, with nearly a new show every day (I’ll be keeping an eye on Courtney Barnett April 22 myself).

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drummers, sort of just exchanging ideas.”

In a similar vein, Death Cab for Cutie drummer Jason McGerr has started a YouTube series he’s calling “Refuge in Practice,” where he shows off his technique and geeks out about gear with other drummers — so far, he’s had Tyler Williams of The Head and The Heart and Andrew Marshall, who plays with Billie Eilish, as guests.

“I wanted to provide something that offered a little bit of inspiration and exercise for people who were at home,” McGerr tells the Inlander. “Once a week, I’m reaching out to my friends who I speak with on the road or behind festival stages and who have a story to tell.”

He semi-jokingly refers to these as “drum dates,” and by making them available through Death Cab’s social media platforms, he’s offering folks a glimpse into their personal lives. That’s something that fans may demand of artists going forward.

“Obviously we’re witnessing a change,” McGerr says. “It’s not just going to revert back to the way things were before. As a fan of bands and musicians, I’d love to subscribe and tune in to that stuff — go behind the curtain and watch a soundcheck or a pre-show warmup before they go on stage.”

“I bet you a lot of people are enjoying how personal some of these experiences are,” Katz says. “It’s a cool reminder that we’re all in the same place. We’re all at home, just working on stuff, playing songs that maybe we haven’t played in a while or that inspire us. And it’s cool to share and experience those things together.”

tion, or how the music industry will evolve or adapt in the coming weeks and months. When venues finally reopen and concert tours resume, the feeling among most musicians seems to be the same: People will be more eager than ever to hear new music, having taken it for granted until it was taken away.

“People are itching to get back out there and play,” Brown says. “When I was doing my live stream, people would comment to other people who logged in to say ‘hi’ to them. I think that’s something that will always exist.”

“As a fan of bands and musicians, I’d love to subscribe and tune in to that stuff — go behind the curtain and watch a soundcheck or a pre-show warmup...”

WHEN WE’RE BACK TO NORMAL

It’s still not clear how much longer we’ll be living in isola-

“I think that people are going to realize how much of a part of life music plays in their experience,” Mannan agrees.

“Everyone’s going to have missed each other so much.

There is something totally unique about getting to be in a room with other people.”

And even though you may be seeing more artists taking to Facebook Live or Instagram TV to share a new song or simply chat with their followers, nothing beats the thrill of seeing that same artist in the flesh.

“When you’re performing in front of people, there’s an energy that is undeniable,” Hildebrand says. “If they’re into it, you can tell, and that energizes you. It’s what makes people love live music. That’s the good stuff.” n

Let’s all remain close, when physically we’re apart.

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VISUAL ARTS

Best Laid Plans Spokane artist Ben Joyce was going to spend 2020 globetrotting for a new series of paintings.

COVID-19 had other plans

BY DAN NAILEN

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n Jan. 30, Ben Joyce hosted a gathering at his downtown Spokane studio to reveal the first piece from what he’s calling The Place Collection. The massive work, measuring 8 feet by 8 feet, depicted New York City using a blend of his familiar, map-like “abstract topophilia” aerial approach and fresh color and design flourishes inspired by interviews he conducted with locals on a week-long trip to the Big Apple. The piece was familiar thanks to the distinct style that’s made Joyce popular, but showcased an artist clearly pushing himself in exciting new directions.

The plan Joyce described that night for The Place Collection was to travel the world throughout the year — followed by a documentary crew — talking to people in Shanghai, Moscow, Mexico City, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Lagos, Florence, Abu Dhabi and Seattle, and then turning those experiences into 10 pieces (including New York City) and a film. The idea, he says, has been in his head for years.

Clearly, The Place Collection isn’t going to happen as exactly planned. Joyce, 42, is holed up in his Indian Trail home with his wife, Erin, navigating the pandemic and keeping their three kids occupied and safe. We talked

to Joyce about how the lockdown is going, and what his plans are for his now-delayed dream project. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

INLANDER: What’s your day-to-day life look like right now?

JOYCE: We’re certainly trying to stick to this selfquarantine as much as possible. We really try to be as strict as we can as far as leaving the home and where we go, even what we touch. The hard thing is getting the kids [third-grader Cyrus, fifth-grader Nora and seventhgrader Ava] on a schedule, and even ourselves on a schedule. It’s pretty nuts, but there’s positives, too. We’ve never had as many family dinners in a row than we’ve had so far. It’s going to be interesting to see what impact this is going to have on just family life and our connectivity to other people.

Before we talk about how things have changed, what was your original plan for this new series?

It’s a project I’ve wanted to do for 15 years, to do this Place Collection that I go ...continued on page 22

Artist Ben Joyce at work.

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“BEST LAID PLANS,” CONTINUED... and observe a location, and not only through my own influence and observation, but [see it] through these interviews of people from all walks of life in their location.

What does the place mean to them?

The timing of this [pandemic] is very complex in my thought process of this collection. We started in New York when COVID-19 wasn’t even on the radar. So I have this experience in New York City, one of the biggest metropolises on Earth, and I remember being in Times Square, shoulder to shoulder with 50,000 people, maybe more. Just traveling through the city, there was never any regard for proximity to the next person. I must have rubbed shoulders with thousands of people during that week. Intentionally. So being able to create the New York piece from that experience is going to be critical in looking at this collection now as kind of a beginning, middle and end [of the pandemic].

How has the arrival of the virus changed your thinking on the project?

You go through different emotions, and there’s times where it can become overwhelming, because now here I am doing this collection and it’s a story that’s going to be told right in the middle of coronavirus. So what does that look like as far as the composition I create?

“You go through different emotions, and there’s times where it can become overwhelming.”

We went to Seattle earlier this year, and at that point there were just three cases in Seattle, it had just made its way to the U.S. There was nothing on the level of awareness of the severity, there was no shutdown [yet]. We had five beautiful days in Seattle and within weeks, all of a sudden, Seattle takes on a whole different life from what I had experienced there. So part of creating the Seattle piece is to stay true to the time I had there. I could go back to paint New York or Seattle in current times, and it would look like a totally different piece. Creating the Seattle piece, it’s reflective of the time I spent there, and that’s something that’ll stay true throughout this process.

I was able to bring the Seattle piece to my garage, which is where I’m painting it now. This is forcing me to create work out of my element. And I certainly want this series to progress.

What are the next steps to keep it going?

Talking with the film director [Rudy Valdez], we’re going to start reaching out to individuals across the globe to do weekly interviews [online]. The original concept of this collection was to study the connection to place in this moment in time. And that doesn’t change. It’s just going to be a totally different perspective.

In the next few months, or longer, international travel’s probably out of the question. The cities [for The Place Collection] could certainly change. It’s a challenge, but also an opportunity to connect with people who have lived this experience. I wonder what kind of impact that will have on my artwork. Could I find that it becomes even a more intimate project and relationship because of how you’re connecting on this level of perspective of living life?

I think there was a reason why this didn’t happen 15 years ago, or 10 years ago, or five years ago, and now it’s all of the sudden here. How do I depict this moment in time? n

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Now on the Small Screen

BY NATHAN WEINBENDER

BIG TIME ADOLESCENCE Since joining Saturday Night Live when he was only 20, Pete Davidson has become known as much for his tumultuous personal life as his laconic stoner persona. Writer-director Jason Orley’s Big Time Adolescence, now streaming on Hulu, is the first feature to put Davidson at its center, and it suggests he could have a career playing slightly fictionalized iterations of himself before (hopefully) maturing into more complex roles. Here he plays Zeke, a pothead slacker in his early 20s whose best friend is high school sophomore Mo (Griffin Gluck of American Vandal), a wallflower whose older sister broke up with Zeke years ago. They’re an odd couple, to be sure, and yet their rapport kind of makes sense, considering Zeke’s own arrested development. He also considers himself an entrepreneur, which is how he dreams up a casual operation wherein Mo goes to parties and sells Zeke’s shitty drugs to his

THE BUZZ BIN friends. It’s a slight story, but it’s anchored by the warm chemistry of the two leads, and by a solid supporting turn from Jon Cryer as Mo’s rightfully concerned dad. And Davidson is surprisingly good as a loveable loser who watches everyone else grow up and march on past him while he stays firmly planted in place.

BLOW THE MAN DOWN In the rural neo-noir Blow the Man Down now streaming on Amazon Prime, a sleepy Maine fishing village turns out to be a roiling cauldron of sex, secrets and corruption — aren’t they always? It begins with sisters Priscilla and Mary Beth having just buried their sickly mother, and now they’re worrying about keeping their house and running the family fish market. One night, Mary Beth is menaced by a drunk guy she kills in self-defense, and she enlists Priscilla into helping her dispose of the body. The man’s disappearance barely seems to register with the town’s police officers, but it soon uncovers a sprawling history of past misdeeds, some of which involve Margo Martindale as the proprietor of the town’s bordello. Blow the Man Down is in the great tradition of regional, intergenerational mysteries like John Sayles’ Lone Star and Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River, and its look at a Maine village harboring secrets invites comparisons to the work of Stephen King. But directors Bridget Savage Cole and Danielle Krudy employ an off-kilter style that sets this story apart, balancing rigid visual formalism with weird flourishes, including cutaways to some mystical longshoremen singing acapella sea shanties. n

CALIENTE! This binge is definitely worth your while — preferably while you down some tasty tacos. Netflix’s Gentefied features 10 half-hour episodes revolving around three cousins in East Los Angeles and their grandfather, “Pops,” who’s trying to save the family’s restaurant as the neighborhood gentrifies around them. The show doesn’t shy away from tough issues surrounding race, gender, art and class — and, yes, sometimes it’s a bit preachy — but overall it balances comedy and drama with skill while showcasing a segment of American culture all too often left off the screen. (DAN NAILEN)

GO ALL IN The first two seasons of Ozark were just fine. It had good characters, a captivating plot and cliffhangers that were great for binging. But season 3, recently released on Netflix, is a level up for the crime drama.

Unhinged from a plot bounded by a contrived timeline, this season explores a power struggle between husband and wife before turning into a stunning commentary on the dead-end options facing people with mental illness. (WILSON CRISCIONE)

THIS WEEK’S PLAYLIST Some noteworthy new music hits online and in stores April 10. To wit: LADY GAGA, Chromatic. There’s going to be a lot of apartment dance parties to this one.

JOE SATRIANI, Shapeshifting. If guitar wankery is your game, Satriani is probably some sort of wizard.

THE STROKES, The New Abnormal. Retro-cool or stuck in 2001? We report, you decide!

THE DREAM SYNDICATE, The Universe Inside.

My excitement level for the Paisley Underground heroes’ latest is high. (DAN NAILEN)

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Volunteer Mindy Howard working for Spokane Food Fighters. YOUNG KWAK PHOTO

BY CHEY SCOTT

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s soon as state Rep. Marcus Riccelli returned home from Olympia, he jumpstarted a community-wide effort to feed Spokane constituents deeply affected by the COVID-19 crisis.

In its first two weeks, Riccelli’s project Spokane Food Fighters served nearly 4,000 emergency meals to residents struggling with food insecurity as the pandemic stretches local resources thin.

“I really felt pressure of what we were going to do to address immediate needs,” Riccelli recalls. “We were kicking around ideas about the restaurant shutdown, and newly food-insecure people and those who struggle with that regularly.”

The small team behind Spokane Food Fighters brought the idea live in just a week, with a website and logistical management by local developers Robbi Katherine Anthony and Patrick McHugh, and financial management by the Smith-Barbieri Progressive Fund.

The project is partnering with local restaurants and catering services, including chef Adam Hegsted’s Eat Good Group, to prepare meals delivered daily by volunteers.

Second Harvest is also on board, providing 15-pound “emergency food boxes” that can be requested through Spokane Food Fighters’ website, spokanefoodfighters.org.

Donors can contribute directly online, where volunteers can also sign up for delivery routes.

Families and individuals in need can request reheatable, ready-to-eat meals once a week, as the service was designed to supplement existing services from food banks, schools, Meals on Wheels and others, Riccelli explains. Each meal includes a resource sheet to connect those who may need more help with appropriate services.

Currently, Spokane Food Fighters is only available within Spokane city limits.

“We pride ourselves for being grassroots and nimble,” Riccelli says. “Someone wrote to us today about being immunocompromised and who used to go to the food bank and can’t now. Whether we’re providing one meal to get them by, or connecting them to a sustaining resource, we’re excited to help out.”

In addition to feeding those in need, Spokane Food Fighters is bringing some business to locally owned restaurants struggling to keep the lights on and staff employed since having to make the overnight switch to take-out-only service.

Restaurants that have provided donation-funded meals so far include Cascadia Public House, the Boiler Room, Remedy and No-Li Brewhouse.

“To have that connection with the service industry is great,” Riccelli says. “Some have been asking if they could cut down meals in cost, but we find a price range and we want to pay them so they are able to keep their workforce hopefully somewhat intact.”

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ach evening at 5 pm, Rick Clark logs on to Facebook and starts asking people for money.

The cash isn’t for him, but to provide fresh, hot meals from a local restaurant’s kitchen to feed the homeless and other at-risk populations. As the founder of the local nonprofit Giving Back Packs, which supports people experiencing homelessness, Clark knows the impact a hot meal can have.

During the first 13 evenings of these nearly nightly livestreams, the local philanthropist raised more than $13,000 that’s been spent at area restaurants including Borracho Tacos & Tequileria, TT’s Old Iron Brewery & Barbecue, Charlie P’s, Mac Daddy’s Pub & Grill and Mary Lou’s Milk Bottle.

Clark is online for just 15 minutes a night, and says each session so far has averaged about $1,000.

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FOOD | NEWS “A NEED TO FEED,” CONTINUED... dumping money into buying full-price items from restaurants. We have 20 delivery drivers and they go pick up the food and bring it to a local shelter.”

Recent beneficiaries include Truth Ministries, Crosswalk Youth Shelter, Meals on Wheels, City Gate and others.

The online hub for Clark’s efforts is the Facebook group “Live at 5 With Rick Clark,” which hosts the donation stream Monday through Saturday at 5 pm. Donations of any amount — several nightly watchers drop in to give around $10 — can be made through Paypal, Venmo and the Cash App, as Clark updates the total raised and thanks each donor on-stream.

In the coming weeks, Clark plans to work through a long list of area restaurants, ranging from fast-casual to fine dining, that he’ll purchase meals from to donate to a group or nonprofit in need.

“We say that we only have one rule: You don’t get a discount,” Clark says. “We want to pay full price and want to pretend that 100 people came in and bought 100 meals. Restaurants don’t know how to react, and the community loves that we do that.”

Last Tuesday, Live at 5 asked for donations to spend at Wiley’s Downtown Bistro to serve clients of Revive Re-entry, a nonprofit that helps former felons transition into housing and jobs.

Chef-owner Michael Wiley got the order for 50 meals the following day and decided to use some extra chicken he’d ordered to go alongside mashed potatoes and fresh sauteed veggies. It was the fifth such meal for at-risk groups, purchased through donations, that Wiley’s cooked in the last three weeks.

He says the influx of cash from big orders like these

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Rick Clark uses Facebook Live to request donations. helps right now, even if it’s not enough for him to bring any of his employees back to work.

“We’re like every other restaurant out there. Complaining about it is not going to do any good,” Wiley says. “We’re going to do what we do and pull up our bootstraps tighter and adjust.”

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fforts to feed people while supporting local businesses are not limited to the Spokane Food Fighters and one-man donation drives.

Spokane restaurateur Matt Goodwin began his “Help a Restaurant, Help a Hero” GoFundMe campaign last month to keep his employees working while aiding the community. The effort has since raised more than $12,700 to provide meals to first responders in health care and emergency services. The campaign’s goal is to serve 100 meals a day for 20 consecutive days.

“We’ve been able to get hours for eight hourly employees and one salaried manager,” Goodwin notes. “We thought it was a great way that the general public could

help a restaurant and help our health care workers, and could do so while sitting at home, social distancing and quarantining.”

SNAP Spokane recently launched the Cuisine for Clients program to purchase restaurant meals for residents of its affordable housing complexes. In the program’s first week, nearly $600 was SUPPORT raised to purchase meals from featured restaurant THE CAUSE and SNAP small business Spokane Food Fighters, client Cochinito Taqueria. spokanefoodfighters.com The meals fed 45 people at two of SNAP’s apartSNAP Cuisine for Clients, ment complexes. snapwa.org/together “We know the restaurant industry is hit hard, Live at 5 With Rick Clark, and the goal was also to bit.ly/LiveAt5WithRickClark help clients who were laid off, or have lower income Help a Restaurant, Help a Hero, and had their hours cut,” gofundme.com/f/ says SNAP spokeswoman help-a-restaurant-help-a-hero Nicole Bishop. “We thought, let’s combine those efforts and start a fundraiser to support SNAP-supported businesses and give back to some of our clients.”

Local spots benefiting next are Alpine Deli and Sweetbox Bakery. Supporters can make a donation through SNAP’s website.

“SNAP has an 80 percent success rate for businesses remaining open after five years, which is really the inverse of the national average,” Bishop says. “We know this is a storm the restaurants have to weather together, and as much support as we can provide is essential to us. We build relationships with these restaurants and are invested emotionally. We want to see them succeed.” n

CHEERS AND JEERS Cheers to those that are not rude jerks. Jeers to the rest of you!! I have a severely compromised immune system. I have been wearing a mask, if I must go outside my home, for the past month now. Shame on those rude jerks at the grocery store, every time I went to get some groceries, whom thought it was hilarious to mock me, put me down and make fun of me for wearing a mask. Didn’t you ever learn any manners you immature idiotic jerks?? Even a few different couples, I could hear them cracking up and making fun of me for wearing a mask! Really?! The worst was when one of them went right in my face and fake coughed less than a 12� from my face!! Then him and his friends were laughing hysterically saying “ now you have coronavirus�!! Really, these were 19, 20, 21 year olds. I guess the reality of our ever changing, unknown world we now live in hasn’t quite sunk in to some!! Please note: A compromised immune system means you could have very little or no symptoms at all, but, give me the same thing and it could mean a hospital stay, possibly ICU or worse for me!! Have some respect Spokane!! To those of you who stay home, and /or cover your face, or respect social distancing I applaud you, keep up the good work. Shame on all the naive idiots out there they think they are invisible to catching and spreading sickness or maybe you just don’t give a fu*k?!

I SAW YOU WHERE DID YOU GO SEXY GUY IN BIG WHITE TRUCK I see you drive by nearly everyday. You, in a nicely lifted white Ford truck. You are so hot!! Maybe you have been quarantined? I sure miss watching you drive by. I hope to see you again my hottie in his whitey ; )

CHEERS 2 YEARS 9 MONTHS Cheers to my Grandson! You will be 12 in a few weeks, I know you don’t get to celebrate like we used to so I say Happy Birthday to the last picture I have of you. A day does not go by that I don’t wonder how you are, and miss and love you. It’s been almost 3 years since I saw you at playday in 3rd grade. Are you doing well in school? Are you scared because of Covid19? I so wish I could see you and calm your fears, give you a big hug and reassure you that we will get through this trying time. It is not the beginning of the end, it is a virus and we will get it under control.

I love you more every day and hold my breath waiting for the day we see each other. Happy almost birthday, Z. Gramma loves you dearly. We fly together in my dreams. Until I see you again know that I love you and miss you with all my heart.

KARMA KIDS Joyriding, discharging, and abandoning electric shopping carts for the disabled is begging the universe to leave you disabled and waiting at customer service for a discharged abandoned shopping cart in turn. That’s betting one heck of a lot that karma isn’t real, kids.

TRASH COLLECTOR Yeah! To the person in Browne’s Addition who is picking up trash as they go on their daily “corona� walk. Thank you, you are making a difference. Maybe we all can do a little bit as we’re getting our exercise and fresh air. Clean up for Spring!

JEERS BIG CITY Spokane is afraid of becoming another Seattle. Sorry Spokane, you are worse than Seattle! Higher crime rate, full of a#%hole rednecks that don’t like change or anything else! Not friendly! We have been here almost eight years, long enough too realize we need out of here.

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Not only did you forget to mention your 6-year STD status to me, but to the multiple women you’ve had unprotected sex with both before and during me! Guess you’ve been busy with more than just your business. You can hide but the truth will most certainly come back to bite you much like that nasty rash you’ve been hiding. Years of lies I’ll never get back and personal items of mine you’ve apparently been using

this virus, shouldn’t they also illegalize all smoking to prevent those deaths too? Perhaps driving should also be illegalized to prevent deaths due to car accidents. I would also urge people to remember this period of time and how businesses responded. Many grocery stores have been outstanding in protecting customers and employees both while continuing to maintain excellent customer service. Others have resorted

Cheers to my Grandson! You will be 12 in a few weeks, I know you don’t get to celebrate like we used to so I say Happy Birthday to the last picture I have of you.

WORKPLACE DISTANCING POLICY Jeers to the package delivery company that is not distancing inside the warehouse. So you made a show of distancing with signs at the secured entrance, and from the Wellness Team? But we are still going into trailers to load them, two of us together in the back of a trailer within inches of each other, every day we go into work. It is clear that no impression has been made on the loader supervisors that the virus is airborne, or that this pandemic is not just hype.

RESPECT I saw you in my mind’s eye, standing, shattered as you left those beautiful roses on the pavement before the locked gate of the Fort Wright Cemetery while Old Glory twisted and flying from one grommet like an old windsock above all.

YOU KNOW WHY Jeers to Donald J. Trump.

YOU THROW AROUND STDS BETTER THAN YOUR DISC! Jeers to Jeremy.

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on more than just me? Disgusting! Rot in HELL. You never deserved me.

RE: SPOKANE HOARDERS The last several weeks of messages about hoarders & the coronavirus have been outstanding. Although lots of great data (real science) and information has been presented, I’d like to add additional data. Recent estimates are that 100,000 to 240,000 Americans may die from infection. Even if this projection ends up being true (it’s only speculative at this point), why is this the headline of every news story? Granted, I have zero interest in any more deaths from this virus. I would love total success with an antiviral. Nevertheless, about 150,000 Americans will die this year from lung cancer, primarily due to smoking. An additional 30,000 plus will die from auto accidents. As I walk into grocery stores maintaining “social distance� (a stupid term) to purchase my goods, I walk into the exhaled smoke of multiple smokers. If the states can mandate stay at home orders to try and limit deaths due to

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to treating customers poorly, using this current period as an excuse to treat customers even more rudely. Although this may be true for other places also, the most offensive so far has been a place I was unaware of until recently.

The prices and customer service are better at grocery stores like Yokes and Rosauers so why not go there instead?

I know I won’t go back to that other place and just hope they close their doors permanently. Cheers! n

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Party of One Campuses may be closed, but you can recreate the college experience from your couch

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ollege campuses are closed, parties are prohibited by government fiat and joints probably shouldn’t be shared with anyone. Thankfully, Washington’s cannabis shops are considered “essential” by the same officials urging you to stay at home. So, follow orders, break off a piece of your favorite edible and curl up on the couch. We’re suggesting some college comedies that are pretty good on their own, but would certainly benefit from a toke or two.

We’re skipping the obvious choices like Animal House, Revenge of the Nerds and Old School, focusing instead on buried treasures and cult classics. All titles are available to rent on digital platforms unless otherwise noted.

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BACK TO SCHOOL (1986)

Rodney Dangerfield never landed a better star vehicle than this broad comedy, playing a wildly successful bigand-tall clothing manufacturer who, as the title suggests, re-enrolls in college well into his 60s. The twist here: It’s the same university his nerdy son is attending, and he not only becomes the big man on campus and successfully woos his literature professor but helps his kid score on the diving team.

EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! (2016)

Richard Linklater channels the tone of his own cult classic Dazed and Confused, this time traveling back to 1980 to

study the antics of a Texas college baseball team in the days before school starts. There’s no conventional plot to speak of; it instead takes the form of a shaggy hangout movie wherein much beer is consumed, even more weed is smoked, and very little baseball is played.

HOW HIGH (2001)

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Yet another factor is a personality trait that psychologist Marvin Zuckerman named “sensation-seeking.” People “high in sensation seeking” crave a variety of new, complex, and intense sensations and experiences and will take physical and social risks to get them.

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Though your situation sounds like “Brokeback Mountain” for straight people (“Bro, it’s super hard to quit ya!”), there might be something else keeping your ex-fiancee around.

Ancestral humans became a cooperative species, living and working together in groups, leading to a need to identify (and avoid) the takers among the givers. We seem to have evolved to act in ways that elevate our reputation, which is basically a social credit check for the sort of people we are. For example, evolutionary psychologist Bo Winegard and his colleagues theorize that reputation promotion is one of the evolutionary functions of grief. They see the expression of grief as a form of advertising for our character, showing us to be loyal and committed allies who “form devoted bonds” with people in our lives.

This zombie fiancee thing — the ex-fiancee who keeps coming back and eating your well-being — may be your ex’s way (probably subconscious) of promoting herself as a good friend, a caring person who doesn’t just shut the door on somebody she’s romantically done with. This could help her seem more attractive to the next guy — which is surely help you aren’t interested in providing, especially at the expense of your need to heal.

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