Lina Washington calls for stricter rules in Arizona as cases rise, challenging the governor’s response to the pandemic
Lina Washington with her father, Robert Edward Washington Jr, who died on 11 June from complications related to the virus. Photograph: Lina Washington
As her father lay dying in a hospital bed in Arizona, after testing positive for Covid-19, Lina Washington pleaded with him to keep fighting.
When they hung up, Washington scrolled through Instagram. She saw stories of friends and former classmates drinking and socializing at crowded bars and clubs, even as coronavirus infections rose exponentially across the state. Yet there they were, smiling, maskless, as if the threat had disappeared and life returned to normal.
Would they be so reckless, she wondered, if they knew that just a few miles away doctors and nurses…
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