For three decades, Kelly Flint flourished as
a corporate travel agent, sending everyone
from business titans to oil riggers around the
planet. Then came the worst pandemic in a
century, leaving her jobless and marooned in an
uncertain economy.
Furloughed since March, Flint has dipped
into her retirement account to pay her bills,
frustrated that her $600 weekly emergency
federal aid payments have expired. She yearns,
too, for an end to the twin disasters that now
dominate her life: recession and pandemic.
“I don’t deal well with the unknowns,” she says. “I
never have.”