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

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

(Happy Sunday, I miss my family.)