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Parents feel the daily strains of this pandemic especially acutely. Plus:
How should you behave if only some of your household is vaccinated?
March 11, 2021
Last summer, as the pandemic raged on, my colleague Sophie Gilbert became a parent. It was the hardest thing she’s ever done.
“Other than my husband, not a single person I love has really seen me being a mother,” she writes in an extraordinary essay. “This new person I’ve become since I gave birth is a person virtually no one knows.”
With the birth of her twins, Sophie joined the millions of parents who, a year into this pandemic, are raising kids at a time when access to support, such as child care or just a loved one who can lend an extra hand, remains frustratingly limited.
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The Atlantic Daily: 14 Fixes for Pandemic Monotony
We’ve arrived at the final stretch of this pandemic. Break up the monotony of isolation with a small activity, as suggested by our newsroom.
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vegetable. the celery and blue cheese dressing is not a vegetable. that s where people are getting the numbers. it is a vegetable, but it is not good for you. you think people are being healthier for the super bowl. they are not. they think it cancels out. when you stuff your face with pounds and pounds of fried chicken wings and you have blue cheese smeared ought over you like moisturizer and in your hair to hold it perfectly exprkts reality is you think you eat a few celery stalks and everything is cool, my understanding is that that is from a nutritional standpoint, false. if you want to be on a diet x the way to do it is to be the bartender. you won t have time to take a sip of water let alone drink or eat. that s a fun tip. that s what i will be doing on sunday. that sounds like a tip you would get from mad do moi sell on how to do a super bowl party. i am sick of americans talking about what goes into their body. pig out. it is one day.