Pedley's Ponderings
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Miguel Ortega III and his two children, Angell and Brooklynn. Ortega died May 29 due to complications of COVID-19.
I've never worried more about someone I had never met before than I did when my friend Ryan told me his brother had contracted COVID-19.
It was late-April and I had been working from home for the better part of a month. People were still taking the pandemic seriously back then, and most of the state was shut down. It was the same situation across the country – bars, restaurants, movie theaters, playgrounds and everything in between had locked up in an effort to prevent the virus' spread.
That wasn't the case at the New Jersey golf course where Miguel, Ryan's brother, worked as part of the...
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