The vast majority of Americans have voluntarily isolated themselves, at great financial and emotional cost, in order to protect their communities. It's the most impressive civic-minded act I've ever seen in this country.

If a tiny minority of Nazi and Confederate sympathizers are getting outsized media attention due to their ties to the GOP's donor class, don't let it erase how impressive this has all been and continues to be, in no small part due to the majority of governors.

State leadership - including many Republicans in places like Ohio and Indiana - has been impressive. Coordination between state depts of health, private medical industry, and academic epidemiological researchers, is leading us towards testing and treatment solutions.

I'm grateful to my neighbors - we see each other a lot these days - for distancing without much complaint. We see each other, smile, shrug, talk about how weird it is, go back to our distanced lives. Ironically, by staying apart, we've made community and care visible.

It's going much better than I would have allowed myself to hope.

NONE OF WHICH ERASES ALL THE BAD SHIT HAPPENING IN INSTITUTIONS, THE HUNGER, THE MASSIVE FEDERAL FAILURES, AND ALL THE OTHER BAD SHIT.

But it's worth pausing to recognize that Americans are sacrificing.