“My Wife’s Anxiety around Covid is Making Me Feel Like Prisoner”
We’re a queer family living in a liberal bubble in a conservative state that struggles to take any advice on COVID safety. My daughter, who is two-and-a-half, has some unique health conditions that would make her vulnerable to complications should she ever get COVID. Consequently, when things shut down in 2020, we pulled her out of day care, my wife restructured their career to work at home, and we totally shut our lives down completely. We’ve had literally zero childcare or help from the time our daughter was seven months on. Two years into this pandemic, by taking every precaution, doing all our shopping online, cutting our own hair, shooting up every…