Is it safe to visit Mom on Mother’s Day?
CNNEditor’s Note: Kent Sepkowitz is a CNN medical analyst and a physician and infection control expert at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. CNN — This Sunday, the Covid-19 pandemic, which already has flattened several holiday celebrations – Mardi Gras, St Patrick’s, Passover, Easter, Ramadan – will run over another. Join us on Twitter and Facebook Besides, we were given Zoom, and a two-month lead on how to use it, precisely because we knew Mother’s Day was coming, right? And with everyone’s mom at the center of the call, the circle of Zoomers will quickly fall in line and resume where they were the last time the family gathered, with grudges, slights, misunderstandings, and – special new feature – private chats to complain. Call someone – a President, a senator, a governor, a mayor, a hapless Cabinet member, anyone and everyone – to deliver one loud message: The cruel and unusual punishment of the elderly, who raised us, loved us, and protected us for our entire life, simply cannot continue.