How rich people spent the pandemic
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The unique pain (and anger) of grieving someone who refused a COVID vaccine
With every adult in the US eligible for COVID-19 shots since April 19, and for older Americans months before that, there are now people dying of the deadly virus who were already eligible for vaccination before they became infected.
It's true that more and more Americans are getting immunized. But as long as COVID-19 exists and people keep making the choice to remain unvaccinated, some will, inevitably, die, leaving their loved ones grieving a death that could have been avoided.
According to loved ones and families of those who died after refusing the vaccine, this grief is different. "I'm mostly just angry at them, because this didn't have to happen," one woman told us. "I feel guilty that I'm not more sad, [but] I know that anger is part of grief, and I expect that the real grief will come."
Read about the difficulties of grieving a loved one who turned down a vaccine.  A sign advertises COVID-19 vaccines at Frontier Field in Rochester, New York, May 18, 2021. Joshua Bessex / Getty Images STAYING ON TOP OF THIS
The victims of the San Jose shooting left behind two families: their loved ones and their coworkers
On Wednesday, nine employees of the Santa Clara Valley Transit Authority (VTA) were killed in a mass shooting at a San Jose rail yard. As their coworkers and bosses mourned them in a press conference, they returned to a common phrase: "the VTA family."
Many of the victims had worked different positions throughout the transit organization over several years. They left behind parents, siblings, spouses, and children, but also a tight-knit family of coworkers.
Here's how the two sets of families are remembering the victims of the shooting. SNAPSHOTS
Three officers were charged with murder and manslaughter in the killing of a Black man in Washington. Manuel Ellis was walking home after getting donuts when witnesses said they saw officers tackle and pin him to the pavement. The charges mark the first time the attorney general's office has filed criminal charges against police officers for the unlawful use of deadly force.
The Doomsday-obsessed mom was found incompetent to stand trial by a psychologist. State prosecutors are expected to fight a psychologist's finding that Lori Vallow, who fled authorities after her children were reported missing, is not competent to face trial.
Amid Israeli-Palestinian violence, Facebook employees are accusing their company of bias against Arabs and Muslims. As Facebook contends with internal allegations of censorship, unequal enforcement, and pro-Israel bias, employees are worried it is once again bungling a politically charged issue with potential for violence.
In an unprecedented move, astronomer Geoff Marcy has been kicked out of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences. The famous astronomer resigned from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2015 after a sexual harassment investigation made public by BuzzFeed News. Now he has become the first scientist to be expelled from the most prestigious scientific organization in the US.
Kim Kardashian tested positive for COVID-19 days after returning from her controversial island birthday trip. It seems that Kim tested positive roughly 10 days after returning from the infamous trip, and the Kardashians decided against disclosing her diagnosis at the time. The revelation came during the latest episode of Keeping Up With the Kardashians. MONEY WEEK 2021
People say their rich friends disappointed them during the pandemic
For all the hopeful "we're all in this together" sentiment that has occasionally permeated how we talk about the pandemic, nothing could be further from the truth. Rich people had a very different pandemic than most folks.
We asked readers to tell us about the outrageous displays of wealth they had witnessed during the pandemic. One person saw loved ones travel by private plane to the Super Bowl; another said a friend complained about how long it took to build a pool mid-pandemic.
Several people complained about friends and family who posted Instagrams of themselves jetting across the country and around the world on vacation.
"It makes you realize how little people actually care," one person told us. Here are the ways rich people spent the pandemic.  Diners at the Hamptons Magazine x the Chainsmokers VIP Dinner in July 2020. Mark Sagliocco / Getty Images for Hamptons Magazine SIT BACK AND KICK IT You need these longreads for your long weekend
The terrifying resurgence of Y2K fashion. With mounting horror, Shannon Keating realized that "vestiges from my own teenagehood have now become desirably retro: Paul Frank baby tees, lacy camisoles, flouncy miniskirts, low-rise Guess jeans." This is not about getting older. Keating writes that "the resurgence of mid-aughts fashion is so dismaying because most of it is really effing ugly."
Olivia Rodrigo's "Brutal" is the perfect pandemic summer song. God, it's brutal out here. Scaachi Koul writes about Rodrigo's Sour album opener. "It makes me want to return to my high school with a baseball bat and fuck up some lockers," writes Koul. But beyond how fun it is, the song's "real appeal is that it hits at the right time."
Gen Z is scrambling to get their hands on Megan Fox's hoodie. Twelve years after Jennifer's Body came out, replicas of its star's most famous outfit are proliferating, and TikTokers are DIY'ing it. Find a moment to be kind to yourself today, Elamin 📝 This letter was edited and brought to you by Elamin Abdelmahmoud and BuzzFeed News. You can always reach us here.
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