Amelia PA Blog

Kindness trumps hatred. “Putting” yourself in another’s shoes is better than actually being in that person’s shoes – try it.

Three years into the pandemic, we, like so many families got covid. We are grateful that it was post vaccines and boosters. But – it could have been avoided. My family and I always mask indoors and even outdoors when crowded. We test before visiting others indoors or hosting people in our house – if they didn’t or we didn’t – the windows are open with air purifiers or we just don’t host.

It happened on a week when it rained and my children had indoor lunch instead of outdoors. Very simply – it happened indoors, dead of winter. There it is – all the mitigations feasible were incorporated for 3 whole years but it failed anyway. Do we give up hands in the air? Question that any human should have at this point.

After some time to ponder, quarantining with a family of four, medicating everyone, making sure they eat and hydrate and sleep enough while looking out for yourself too – okay, there wasn’t that much time, but I came up with this:

Kindness is easier than anything else. Keep a mask handy, wear it when indoors with people not in your household, Covid is not over and not going to be over. There are 20% of those who had Covid still suffering more than 6 months later. You don’t hear them nor see them – do you want to be one of them? Wear a proper mask, treat others with respect. When it’s your turn, you’d expect the same. Treat your elders with compassion, this virus will ultimately affect them and the immune compromised with the heaviest hand. Put yourselves in their shoes before you end up in their shoes.