Your burden is real. The loss of connection you suffer, especially if you live alone, is legitimately devastating. Very few amongst us can go indefinitely witho

Your burden is real. The loss of connection you suffer, especially if you live alone, is legitimately devastating. Very few amongst us can go indefinitely without an on-going external investment of care. While I believe that it's just to provide parents with the slack they need to continue as healthy contributors, I also firmly believe that we owe you and all those that suffer differently, an incomparable, but adjacent duty to provide care and support in the ways that address your needs. As far as I can tell, the right course of action would be for each of us, parent or otherwise, to outwardly acknowledge the ways that the pandemic has harmed us and the ways others could support us, while also advocating for and contributing to the well-being of our peers. So long as we're focused on receiving a fungible equity that compares directly to our peers, I think that we will be grabbing at ever less valuable scraps of a torn social fabric while ultimately denying ourselves and our peers the benefits that would provide the satisfaction of a high-trust emotionally robust collaborative environment.