When he first put on the Toucan, Thomas Finney felt transformed. He saw the bright orange, green, blue, and red leather beak hanging from his face and he was no longer himself—and, more importantly, for a moment he wasn't in the middle of this horrific thing.
Up to that point, he'd had a tough pandemic. Since 2016, he'd made a living as a made-to-measure tailor, but the made-to-measure business collapsed when the stay-at-home order went into effect.
There was no way to meet with anyone, factories were closed, fabric mills weren't shipping. He'd been cooped up in his studio apartment in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, trying to imagine how he fit into this new world, trying to think up ways to survive.
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By Andrew Fedorov July 6, 2020 Courtesy of the Plague Doctor When he first put on the Toucan, Thomas Finney felt transformed. [...]
