Pandemic Reflections

We Can Hoard Soap and Toilet Paper, but We Can’t Hoard Time

How the pandemic made time a treasure of the privileged while it was stolen from everyone else

Emily Willingham
Elemental
Published in
4 min readMar 11, 2021

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Photo: Jocelyn Michel/Getty Images

The day we began sheltering in place, a year ago on March 13, we celebrated a family birthday. It was the first of five we would share in the…

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Emily Willingham
Elemental

Journalist, author, Texan, biologist. I write All About Us (we=us), All About Adolescence (our longest growth stage), & All About Aging (we’re all doing it).