Update on My 87-Year Old Father With Covid-19

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I feel bad for taking time away from your helping your kids. There literally isn't anything more important in the whole world and you can tell them the internet person said so too.

Thanks for the followup, it doesn't surprise me, and I do think it's into the territory of saying it's an acceptable solution to just let the elderly just die whether they want to or not, which, ... is not ok. Your alternative solution ideas are interesting, and I've been wishing we'd done a lot more stuff too (I wanted to try to get local philanthropists to provide hand sanitizer at public transit stations, but I didn't manage to make it happen). I believe there is still LOTS of room for private actors to make needed solutions happen.

The spin you put on your story notwithstanding, it is an interesting case to know about, so I'm grateful that you chose to share it. (Though honestly I do still remain skeptical that it's real.) I'm sorry if these comments have taken up too much of your time and attention, and I hope going forward it's easy enough for you to share stuff without it taking more of your time than you'd like.

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I am real. :)

My goal was never to change anyone's mind, it was just to start a conversation to get us all thinking more strategically about the bigger picture. And you and I are probably both thinking more strategically as a result of our intellectually stimulating conversation. I confess that my view is myopic because I am in the middle of it. It's great that we can agree to disagree on points and still talk about how to make the world a better place re: the things we agree on.

We do have something in common! We were both pushing for practical solutions for virus control and we both failed. I was trying to get hand washing stations set up around my community, like at the bus stops. They are only $100 each, so I figured we could GoFundMe and set up as many stations as we raised money for. I ran into several roadblocks and no one was willing to join forced to help me get them set up. Since homeschool takes up most of my time, I didn't have the time/energy to keep pushing for them.