What started out as “bubbles” and “pods” that helped Alaska families minimize COVID-19 exposure have in many cases blossomed into deep bonds and life-changing friendships.
Annette Rearden discovered she had Hodgkin lymphoma in February of 2020. Within a few weeks, pandemic news turned regular life upside-down. Rearden faced a tidal wave of problems and decisions.
Plenty has been written about isolation suffered during the pandemic. But on the other side of that, many people built tight “bubbles,” micro-communities with friends and family that helped them minimize COVID-19 exposure. More than two years later, many of those bubbles have blossomed — deepening family bonds and growing into life-changing friendships. People’s stories and recollections about the friends and family who supported them are full of gratitude.
“For the first six or eight weeks all I was doing was delivering groceries and talking on the phone,” he said. The “gym friends,” as they call themselves, came from all walks of life — among them a corrections worker, a special education teacher, a software analyst and a warehouse manager — brought together years ago by weekly Zumba and Pilates.
On that walk, they decided to make a bubble that would keep up their regular meetings, albeit outside. Isolation and a lack of activities was no good for people their age. They joked they should start a band and call it “Amigos de Gimnasio.” “If she missed a day, somebody would text her, ‘Is everything OK, where’s my inspiration?’ said Denise Summers, 63. “We’ve kind of come to expect it now.”
In February of 2021, Whitmore invited them to share child care at her home as part of a pod school with a preschool teacher. The families all had children too young to be vaccinated and continued to be careful about virus exposure. When they told Zev, who was then 3, his whole body relaxed. Every day, when she picked up Zev, Chan made an effort to talk with Whitmore a bit. Trying to make a new friend in midlife, after a year of isolation, felt awkward.What she didn’t know was that Whitmore and Carlson were feeling the loneliness too. Losing the community of their child care program had been unexpectedly isolating.
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