I've now heard multiple NPR stories about drive-in church services, and setting aside my self-centered "WHAT IF YOU LIVE IN A CITY" thoughts, I've been struck by the lack of attention to all the people everywhere who can't drive—many of them the most vulnerable and isolated.

One of the interviews that's stuck with me the most in the past month was with an Orthodox rabbi, at a loss for what to do on the Sabbath—they cannot do a Zoom service, of course. He talked about his elderly, isolated congregants who rely on services to anchor them to humanity.

I've been really struck by a lack of empathy from some areligious people on my feeds in the past few weeks about what cutting off services means for so many people. I've seen church sneeringly called "a book club."

You don't have to have a personal relationship w/ organized religion to understand what a role these services play in the lives of so many people. I'm v glad so many religious authorities have wholesale canceled IRL services. But I'm thinking a lot about where that leaves people.