Have also been thinking this morning some more about the conversation I had yesterday with a local mom friend whose husband is a doctor.

The details of what COVID is doing to bodies, particularly lungs, are so grave.
We're going to end up with generations of people with permanent lung damage, and that's for those who survive.

It has cemented where I was before this:

we are not going out until there's a vaccine.

I don't know how I'll do it as a single mom, but I'm going to do it.
Yes, I am worried about the mental health of my kids. Yes, I am worried about what it will mean for them socially and educationally.

But they will be alive, they will be healthy, & they are resilient.

It's a whole new level of leadership for me, this time within my own family.
We are going to meet this challenge head-on, together.

The title of my forthcoming book is Becoming Heroines.

I guess it's time to step into a new level of that.

I intend to save my family, no matter what.
If the families of frontline medical workers, who see this daily, are in until there's a vaccine, the rest of us should be.

They see it, they know it, and they're the most informed of all of us about what's underway.

We should all be terrified. That we're all not is horrifying.
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