A thread. If you want to know all the varied ways you are failing your child during a pandemic, schedule a zoom interview with a thoughtful reporter and eavesdrop on their conversation. #COVID19 #MedTwitter 1/
9yo does his own research” online and could cite mortality statistics by age, including my age group, his grandmother’s age group, and his own. Didn’t look up his dad’s because his dad stays home. 2/
He heard news reports that some healthcare workers don’t have the protection they need and are walking out, protesting. He judges those health systems harshly for not protecting their own. 3/
He notices we are all too busy for him and feels he only has his grandmother, and she is worried for her old friends and keeps @CNN on, which is where he heard 700 HCW at his mom’s hospital had tested positive. 4/
He learned about social distancing through our slime experiment where each styrofoam ball represented a person. And mushing the slime made them all sick. 5/ 
He is worried when we have a cure or a vaccine we won’t have enough for everyone and hopes they will give it to doctors and very sick people first. He hopes they have enough for me. 6/Fin
