'It's been really hard for them.'
In Hawaii, the island of Molokai is home to the small, unique community of Kalaupapa. Difficult to access, the remote site is for people with Hansen's disease, colloquially known as leprosy. Once a site of forced quarantine, today, the last remaining patients are again in near-total isolation due to COVID-19 measuresFor the nine remaining patients, now in their 80s and 90s, life on the peninsula has become lonelier than ever.
After enduring numerous telecommunications blackouts, asking for “forbidden hugs” and experiencing a series of non-COVID deaths on the island, one patient reportedly asked, “What is living?” “They were banished here to keep everybody else safe and now, a few years later, we’re flipping the script,” Mikiala Pescaia, a Kalaupapa National Historical Park ranger, told the outlet. “And it’s been really hard for them.”
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