Letter: Let’s all stick together

If we have learned anything since March 2020, it is this: We need each other. The pandemic has revealed in large and small ways that our society and our very lives are an interdependent web tethered to one another.

I need Bridgette, the Acme grocery cashier, to help me get food from the store to my table and sustain my family. I need Katie, an RN at UH Portage, to care for me, or any of my family who show up sick or wounded. I need Gary, our garbage collector, to haul away all that my family cannot use or recycle. I need Pat, our children’s first grade teacher, to educate my son and daughter, so that they can become their best selves and I can return to work outside our home. I need to slow down as I pass Mike, the construction worker, who is repairing the road in my city so I can get to where I’m going.