Heartwake Hotel

Welcome to the Hotel Corona/Such a lovely place/They’re livin’ it up at the Hotel Corona/What a nice surprise. We’ve all learned lessons from our time sheltering in place. In a pleasant irony, isolation in Israel taught people from different cultures that it’s better when they’re together. Similar lessons are being learned on the streets of America. NPR: Everybody’s Getting Along Here: How ‘Hotel Corona’ United Israelis And Palestinians. “The guests, as he called them, came from many walks of life — Israeli Jews, Palestinian Arab citizens of Israel, Palestinian residents of Jerusalem, religious, secular — but all had one thing in common: They were among thousands of COVID-19 patients the Israeli military quarantined in hotels throughout the country.” Welcome to the Hotel Corona. You can check out any time you want, but you may not want to leave.