'Typically, It can be difficult to trace an outcome back to the exact policy or action. During the pandemic, however, the link between federal inaction and widespread mortality is more direct and immediate than ever before' | Fiana Garza Tulip, CNNOpinion
Fiana Garza Tulip is a PR/marketing/sales professional who has represented a number of Fortune 500 companies in her 20+ year career. A Texas native based in Brooklyn, she received degrees from UT Austin and the Parsons school of design. The opinions expressed in this commentary are those of the author. Read more opinion on CNN.
As my husband and I packed up the rental car on July 19, strapped our 11-month-old into her car seat, and began the drive from Brooklyn, New York, to Dallas, Texas, I couldn't help but wonder how in the world we got here. I was going to Texas ... by car ... on my 40th birthday ... with plenty of masks and hand sanitizer in tow to say a final goodbye to my mother, Isabelle Papadimitriou, who died from Covid-19 on July 4.
For friends and family members of Covid-19 victims, public policy and leadership failures can too often be obscured by private grief and drawn out, exhausting timelines, which include making funeral arrangements in the middle of a pandemic.Isaac, Fiana's brother, with Isabelle and Fiana in November 2016.
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