Everybody has to make their own decisions about what& #39;s safe. I get that. But sneering at people "hiding in their basements" because they& #39;re trying to be careful makes me want to scream. All over the country and the world, people are giving up so much.

They& #39;re manifesting in many cases *decades and decades* of love by tolerating agonizing separations so they don& #39;t place anyone they love at risk of dying in pain and alone and scared. This is not *hiding*. It& #39;s *enduring*.

If you think X or Y or Z precaution is excessive in a particular situation, so be it. But this mockery -- mockery! -- of families who are not in basements but on the phone and on video chat and looking at each other through windows, it& #39;s just appalling.

(Happy Sunday, I miss my family.)