’Pandemic Amnesty’: Do you Forgive and Forget?

“In April 2020, with nothing else to do, my family took an enormous number of hikes. We all wore cloth masks that I had made myself. We had a family hand signal, which the person in the front would use if someone was approaching on the trail and we needed to put on our masks. Once, when another child got too close to my then-4-year-old son on a bridge, he yelled at her “SOCIAL DISTANCING!” These precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the ’rona from passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of old bandanas wouldn’t have done anything, anyway. But the thing is: We didn’t know.“ We discuss: “LET’S DECLARE A PANDEMIC AMNESTY Let’s focus on the future, and fix the problems we still need to solve.“ By Emily Oster What does it mean to forgive and forget? Is this really the way to move forward? A short film on forgiveness and holding people accountable. Creators: Kate Wa