Page 110 - FDCC Pandemic Book

Living in a Pandemic: A Collection of Stories on Coping, Resilience & Hope
COVID started to take a toll. On Friday October 30, 2020, before the jury completed its second day of deliberations, I decided to get on the last flight home. We didn’t know if we’d get a verdict before the weekend. It had been a full thirty days since I left my family in Minnesota and, verdict or not, I was ready to go home. As it turned out, I received news of the defense verdict while riding solo in the rental car shuttle bus to the airport. My foot stomps and cheering startled the driver, but he got me to the terminal and kindly found me a cart to haul all my luggage inside.
That security line was short.
Why is the airport so empty on a Friday afternoon? Oh, right....the global pandemic.
As I pulled out my hand sanitizer, I realized that a month long trial resulting in a defense verdict allowed me to forget about the virus, at least for a few short moments.
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