Thank you so much for this. This essay is beautifully written and perfectly captures how I have been feeling. I cried reading it. The final paragraph of the essay really resonated (“It was a largely preventable horror that altered the fabric of reality and there are people responsible…).

My mother was telling me about a family friend of ours I hadn’t thought about since before the turn of the millennium. Their son (maybe a couple years older than I am) had tried to take every precaution he could when he visited his parents for Thanksgiving but was apparently the vector anyway. He ended up intubated;…

I have a special needs daughter and it is people’s aggressive denial of the danger she was put in by their behaviors is what was really eye opening to me. Specifically churches and so called “christians” that I don’t think I could ever go back to trusting in any way shape of form.

Which is not to say that these wildly…

It’s a true saying that there’s no disaster you can’t make worse, and having a complete idiot in charge certainly made this disaster far worse than it should have been. If Trump had taken the virus seriously, his toadies and other conservative leaders would have fallen in line. Instead, he undermined experts, embraced…

This pandemic has really made me lose faith in a lot of people, especially in my personal life. The unbelievable level of selfishness I’ve seen from friends and family who have refused to wear a mask or follow any of the public health orders because some conman on Facebook told them it was BS has made me so angry. My…

I’m mostly just angry and disgusted, mostly at politicians who should be the leaders who provide solutions (and lead by example - they didn’t), but also anyone else who didn’t act like this was a big deal. Hospitals over-run, no room for other patients, no visiting the sick and dying (from Covid or other causes).…

Covid was a such a monumental event that there is room for all of these stories though. The NY Times front pages are lined with gruesome details and sweeping systemic problems. Three sections back it’s bread recipes for lockdown or exercise you can do in your living room. It’s all there, there is plenty of space to…

was really hoping this pandemic would break us out of the current insane trajectory our country and global society was on. all that’s gone. i really see no hope for addressing climate change, no hope in addressing income inequality, no hope in addressing political corruption. it’s done. i feel jaded and hopeless about…

I think they’re going too far with the whole body positivity thing; no matter what, it’s embarrassing to bleed through your clothes or on a desk chair in the middle of a school day. It’s ok to be embarrassed by something natural! It doesn’t make periods wrong or shameful. Oy.