The toll the pandemic has taken
The pandemic has caused an unfathomable amount of death, suffering, financial hardship, and change. I’m very fortunate that I don’t know anyone IRL who’s passed away from covid, or had to be hospitalized.
For me, the toll has mostly been emotional — a large amount of strain on my family, on my marriage, on me personally.
Trying to navigate difficult decisions about where to go or not go, which people to see or not, whether or not to wear masks, whether we should or shouldn’t pull our daughter out of school, whether or not to take her out of extracurriculars. And then once we made the decision to take her out of after school activities, who will take care of her, what she’ll do instead at home or online…
Not being able to go out to eat, go to sporting events, see my coworkers in person. And in spite of all that, still catching a mild case of covid myself and isolating from my family for Christmas. And like many couples, some arguments along the way about all of these things.
And compared to millions of people, I’ve had it good comparatively. And so much of this could have been prevented if our government, and governments around the world had taken the threat of a pandemic seriously like epidemiologists had been warning.
But we keep on going. We owe it to ourselves and our children. Things can and will get better.
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