Buda native Mary Stone when she was working as a nurse in Canada in the 1980s.

That we are in uncharted waters is beyond dispute. But there are those among us who have experienced some-
one eerily similar to the COVID-19 pandemic in emergency rooms decades ago.

One of them is Buda resident Mary Stone, now retired, who was a young nurse in Canada in the 1980s when what was then called the AIDS epidemic hit.

“I was taking care of people when the ICUs were full of young gay men in downtown Toro...