Summer Was Here

SUMMER

was here

After more than a year of quarantine and a whole school year over video calls, it felt like we should run and play in the sunshine. Vaccines were everywhere. Restaurants and other businesses were scheduled to re-open in mid-May so that Wall Street and everyone else would come back to work in the city. We didn’t make any crazy plans. We wore masks at the playground. We kept our distance from strangers. But the word “Delta” wouldn’t go away. So we did what we could to beat the heat and not lose our minds.

Processing

After the intro on Page 6, we have a graph rounding up and sorting out what we saw in the news the first half of the summer from shocking to predictable and entertainment to policy... Best to check out the desktop version

STAYCATION

Madeline's spot on the predictor [in the desktop version] says “stay home,” but the hotdogs make it look nice

PRIORITIZING MENTAL HEALTH

Not the reactions, but every time one of them took a stand

OF COURSE THEY DID

How did 2nd floors not get added sooner?

SPACE RACE

Kal thought billionaires were going to physically compete to get there fi rst

HELPING PEOPLE BE BETTER Billionaires funding space travel rather than education? Of course