CW: COVID-related death Dear skull-washer, I’m thinking about the year 1656. Maybe you know it? When a plague brought the population of Naples crashing down by more than half, from 400,000 to 150,000. Like New York City in 2020, they didn’t have room for all the dead. So they piled them in a quarry, which meant condemning their souls to a purgatory reserved for those not buried in their home parish. Also like in New York and the rest of the United States, these were casualties of inaction. Naples’s leaders had
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CW: COVID-related death Dear skull-washer, I’m thinking about the year 1656. Maybe you know it? When a plague brought the population of Naples crashing down by more than half, from 400,000 to 150,000. Like New York City in 2020, they didn’t have room for all the dead. So they piled them in a quarry, which meant condemning their souls to a purgatory reserved for those not buried in their home parish. Also like in New York and the rest of the United States, these were casualties of inaction. Naples’s leaders had