Oof Miranda’s comment re: the bliss of hyper control in our bubble during the pandemic and the grief of worlds opening up just to have ours shut back down when vaccines weren’t available for children under 5 just triggered what, I’m now realizing, is a very repressed experience and probably the source of a lot of the residual resentment I feel toward people post-pandemic.
I just read this and had to go back to find the photo of our kids finally getting their vaccines. It was JUNE 2022, and that appt was hard fought. So Nellie was born in July 2021 (during the delta wave) and those of us with under 5s stayed pretty closed up for a full year after grown ups could get the vaccine. BANANAS. Long story short, yes to residual resentment! One the of the AAP's takeaways in that report that's linked above is that children's vaccine development & trials in a pandemic should happen at the same pace as adult vaccine dev + trial. HECK YES.
OMG yes! The memories are flooding back now…as you both noted in the episode, it does feel like a relief to unpack some of that now that we have distance on it. We have the same photo of our littles in June 2022. The power dynamics for health, society and the workplace during that time were brutal.
Oof Miranda’s comment re: the bliss of hyper control in our bubble during the pandemic and the grief of worlds opening up just to have ours shut back down when vaccines weren’t available for children under 5 just triggered what, I’m now realizing, is a very repressed experience and probably the source of a lot of the residual resentment I feel toward people post-pandemic.
I just read this and had to go back to find the photo of our kids finally getting their vaccines. It was JUNE 2022, and that appt was hard fought. So Nellie was born in July 2021 (during the delta wave) and those of us with under 5s stayed pretty closed up for a full year after grown ups could get the vaccine. BANANAS. Long story short, yes to residual resentment! One the of the AAP's takeaways in that report that's linked above is that children's vaccine development & trials in a pandemic should happen at the same pace as adult vaccine dev + trial. HECK YES.
OMG yes! The memories are flooding back now…as you both noted in the episode, it does feel like a relief to unpack some of that now that we have distance on it. We have the same photo of our littles in June 2022. The power dynamics for health, society and the workplace during that time were brutal.
wow, yes i think you're on to something