Coronavirus is very real. I worked at The Monitor newspaper's customer service department in McAllen, Texas for 15 years. WE handled calls related to misdeliveries, damaged periodicals, incomplete editions and billing questions. WE dealt with all sorts of calls.
JOE ESPARZA was a District Manager. I knew him for 10 years. He was in charge of newspaper carriers delivering to homes. He supervised the carriers, he delivered misses and threw a route or two if a carrier did not show up or there was an open route. He hired and fired. His 2 districts were in the Weslaco, Donna area and Edcouch Elsa.
He was a great guy. He had a sense of humor that kicked off genuine laughter. I would easily make him laugh by impersonating Presidents Clinton and Obama. I had planned to call him this year to let him hear my Trump imitation. It would be a conversation between Clinton, Obama and Trump.
I never got the chance. Joe died of Coronavirus in August.
I could not believe it.
This is not a hoax.
I have 8 family members that had Covid-19. They survived.
It has hit close to home.
I pray WE develop a vaccine and a cure.
2020 has been a dark, deadly and sad year.