I usually respond with light and hope.I'm not feeling very hopeful these days. The little hope I do feel is the kindness witnessed. And at the same time, here we are more than a year and a half later and indeed in the US (and some other countries too) one of the biggest challenges to stopping the spread of COVID is the multitude living & behaving as if there's no pandemic: defying and denying science, not even doing the smallest thing like wearing a mask as we enter another surge. I've found this devastating to continually navigate. The politicization of a virus rather than pulling together breaks my heart. People are dying needlessly because there is a powerful faction telling them the virus is not real. A dear friend of mine last week watched from her phone as her dear friend lay dying in hospital still refusing to believe she had COVID and refusing certain medical treatments that could have saved her. :(

All I know to do is continue being kind, wear my mask, share information from science and try to have compassionate conversations one by one...