I last saw my mom squad a few days before they closed our states’ schools because of COVID-19 infections. They thought it would be a temporary measure; they mentioned that the playgrounds would crowd with kids now off from school. My stomach sort of sunk. I’d known, from looking at exponential curves and talking to my husband, that we were in this for the long haul, that I shouldn’t be at the playground to begin with— but I’d come because I wanted my kids to have one more chance to play before what we knew would be a long isolation.
