This is such a great, timely essay! This has been so much on my mind, we’re an adult only household, so it’s easier for us (sometimes!) to understand the nuances and work on knee jerk assumptions that getting COVID is due to personal irresponsibility versus a complex series of hard choices and factors totally out of our control. For our …
This is such a great, timely essay! This has been so much on my mind, we’re an adult only household, so it’s easier for us (sometimes!) to understand the nuances and work on knee jerk assumptions that getting COVID is due to personal irresponsibility versus a complex series of hard choices and factors totally out of our control. For our friends with kids, wow do I feel for them! It’s much harder to help kids understand without scaring or confusing them more especially with messages coming from other sources like classmates, teachers, etc — I am going to share this newsletter edition with a lot of folks who will appreciate your thoughtfulness very deeply!
Minor aside: I donated to the Me Little Me fund — the minimum donation is $3 (I’m guessing because of processing fees), I am not sure if this is helpful or silly info to pass along if anyone else was, like me, donating with the idea of “I can certainly donate just $1 without much thought” — needing to go up to $3 wasn’t a financial burden. I think mentioning this makes me sound ridiculous or scolding, it’s about me being someone who likes to know exactly what to expect in all situations (even when inconsequential) and maybe someone else is like that too?
Thank you for the essay feedback AND for noting this about the donations -- I'm updating the text here on the website, at least. That was totally my mistake for forgetting to check. Thank you so much for supporting the project!
This is such a great, timely essay! This has been so much on my mind, we’re an adult only household, so it’s easier for us (sometimes!) to understand the nuances and work on knee jerk assumptions that getting COVID is due to personal irresponsibility versus a complex series of hard choices and factors totally out of our control. For our friends with kids, wow do I feel for them! It’s much harder to help kids understand without scaring or confusing them more especially with messages coming from other sources like classmates, teachers, etc — I am going to share this newsletter edition with a lot of folks who will appreciate your thoughtfulness very deeply!
Minor aside: I donated to the Me Little Me fund — the minimum donation is $3 (I’m guessing because of processing fees), I am not sure if this is helpful or silly info to pass along if anyone else was, like me, donating with the idea of “I can certainly donate just $1 without much thought” — needing to go up to $3 wasn’t a financial burden. I think mentioning this makes me sound ridiculous or scolding, it’s about me being someone who likes to know exactly what to expect in all situations (even when inconsequential) and maybe someone else is like that too?
Thank you for the essay feedback AND for noting this about the donations -- I'm updating the text here on the website, at least. That was totally my mistake for forgetting to check. Thank you so much for supporting the project!