The Tearing Guilt of Coronavirus

Karen Shiebler
4 min readMay 14, 2020

This pandemic has us all anxious and afraid. How do we keep ourselves safe? How do we keep our families safe? Can we be the loving family members we want to be if we aren’t able to be there for those we love?

For me, the COVID virus has brought on a whole new sense of anxious Catholic guilt. Italian Catholic, “you need to be a good girl” guilt.

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Karen Shiebler

A Mother, a grandmother, a progressive voter. I write because it’s getting harder to march and because words are my weapon. I blog at momshieb.wordpress.com