Ask Amy: COVID-19 pushes one spouse out of bed
Spouse, partner, significant other, etc., just seem less honest and less concise and like I'm somehow diminishing his importance.
Can you explain this?
-- Proud Husband
Dear Proud: I don't assign gender to people who write to me, unless they make it clear within their question.
Gender isn't always germane to the issues between couples. Surely, even in your own relationship you can see that some issues that crop up between couples are somewhat universal, regardless of gender or sexuality.
I suspect, also, that some people deliberately mask their gender in order to mask their own identity, and create a further shield, protecting their own anonymity and that of other family members. And, of course, I respect that, too.
Dear Amy: My son is an RN in the emergency room at Alaska Regional Hospital in Anchorage.
The hospital emergency room is now seeing multiple cases of probable COVID-19 every day. They are reusing masks, as someone stole a number of masks from the nearby hospital.
Can you urge people who have supplies to donate them to first responders, including fire departments and hospitals?
Also please tell hoarders to give their supplies to the first responders, that they should be sheltering in place, not hoarding.
I worry for my son and his family (as he has two very young children).
-- Distant Mother
Dear Mother: This is absolutely heartbreaking.
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