The men and women cleaning hospital rooms, stocking grocery shelves, and navigating delivery routes are no longer assumed, but esteemed.
Amid the public health and economic pain inflicted by this virus, we also see it chipping away at old stereotypes and dismantling our chronic underappreciation of service roles in our economy. This global pandemic has created heartache, but it has also revealed new heroes. This weekend we particularly noticed the delivery vans and freight trucks on the roads–all busy hauling packages and pallets full of food, toilet paper, and medical supplies. Our family bike rides these days make us look at the traffic all around us in a new way. With four kids under age ten in quarantine, we seek and savor all our outdoor moments. The driver delighted our kids by laying on his air horn as we waved to him. A big rig rolled past our family bike caravan.
