The Experts

  Do you know who the experts are in “sheltering* in place”?The 2.3 million men, women and children currently warehoused in our prisons, jails and youth facilities.They know what lock-down means.They know what social isolation means.They know what social distancing means.They know what it is like to live without access to restaurants, coffeehouses, bars, libraries, movie theatres, museums, retail stores.They know what rationed health care means.They know what rationed toilet paper means.They know cabin fever.They know fear of others.They know dread, angst, uncertaintyThis is their lives. Every. Day.*If you can call the concrete cages they live in “shelter.”