I Bought Toilet Paper Because I’ve Seen This Shit Before

Shani Silver
5 min readAug 5, 2021

This time it’s on you.

Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels

I moved to New Orleans, Louisiana a month ago. While I was anticipating a significant cultural difference from Brooklyn where I’d lived for eight years, I was not anticipating a medical one. From the moment I walked out of the airport, my mouth was unsanitarily agape in restaurants and coffee shops, not a mask in sight among patrons or staff. I…

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