Comments on: The COVID-revealed weaknesses in our family systems

By: Jen Lumanlan

Jen Lumanlan — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 05:43:21 +0000

Nicole I think what you can do in this case is to talk with the other family about what risks feel appropriate for each of your families to take. Maybe one family has regular contact with an immunocompromised person who cannot be exposed to the virus, so they must take extensive precautions. They might be willing to co-isolate with another family who is also willing to be in a fairly exclusive ‘pod,’ but not with a family who doesn’t usually wear masks out in public. Ultimately you need to make the decision about who you will socialize with based on your family’s unique circumstances – and I would tend to be up-front about that with others to minimize the potential for misunderstanding.

By: Nicole Tahoe

Nicole Tahoe — Thu, 18 Jun 2020 21:28:46 +0000

Now that restrictions are loosening how do we begin to trust others with assisting in the childcare? How do we deal with trust issues between parents and families who have opposing views about what is safe and not safe during the pandemic? I.e. one family group goes in public without masks but the other family members disagree with that risk and how to navigate interacting with them.

By: Jen Lumanlan

Jen Lumanlan — Tue, 16 Jun 2020 01:31:33 +0000

In reply to N.

Hi N,

Thanks for your comment; I’m sorry to hear that the podcast has fallen short for you. My first source on this was a NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/18/us/coronavirus-women-essential-workers.html You are correct that the source I identified does not point to women as disproportionately holding essential jobs, so I have updated the article to reflect other sources for this and noted the potential discrepancies in the sources.

The Census data direct from the source (rather than from Wikipedia) states that 76.5% of Americans are “White alone,” which means that Whites are under-represented in every single category in the Table 2 you mention, so I did not make any updates here.

Thanks for taking the time to comment,

Jen

By: N

Mon, 01 Jun 2020 03:35:55 +0000

I know you don’t like negative feedback Jen, but…
ever since I’ve read/heard some of your claims about education I’ve started doubting how good your research is (although I do think it was significantly better when you first started the podcast). Especially when you interview an “expert” who only presents their side of the research and we don’t get to hear the opposing views at all.

So I click on one link in this article where I thought to myself *really*? That’s sounds wrong. “essential workers are disproportionately women and people from non-dominant cultures in the US” https://www.epi.org/blog/who-are-essential-workers-a-comprehensive-look-at-their-wages-demographics-and-unionization-rates/ and think says, in table 2 “Essential workers by gender, education, and race/ethnicity, 2019” for “All essential workers” that 51% are male (which sounds about the same as the general population) and 55% are white (which also sounds about the same as the general population, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_States “white Americans with no Latin American ancestry make up 52.7% of the population”). Seems essential workers are not disproportionately women or people from non-dominant cultures.