

The mortuary holds the bodies of those who pass away due to COVID-19 for a minimum of three days before they are processed along with various other COVID-related safety measures. The mortuary on average was handling about 50 decedents per month but owner Robert Zakar believes they may process closer to 100 in January as California continues to see a spike in coronavirus deaths. Ain’t nobody in this room alone.”ĮL CAJON, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 15: (EDITORIAL USE ONLY) The chapel has pews roped off for social distancing at East County Mortuary on Januin El Cajon, California. Because I promise you, there is something worse out there than being sad, and that is being alone and being sad. As Ted says to his demoralized team at the very end of the last episode of season 1, “I want you to be grateful that you’re going through this sad moment with all these other folks. “Ted Lasso” reminds us that there’s a world possible in which people can count on one another. In the midst of a pandemic, when so many of us feel fundamentally alone, we see glimmers of this in our own world when we remember that we wear masks not just for ourselves but for everyone else too. As we explain in our forthcoming book, “The Bright Ages,” the ancient and medieval worlds were filled with dangers that couldn’t be navigated alone, and so the societies around the Mediterranean built structures to support the poor, the sick and others.Īs historians, we’ve spent the past 18 months of the pandemic not only watching “Ted Lasso” but also thinking deeply about the values communities need to weather difficult times. As the 13th century theologian Thomas Aquinas explained, it’s simply to “wish good to someone.”Īlthough early Christians were proponents of this ideal of caritas, it’s not an exclusively religious one.

This is a type of love that thinks more about others than oneself. The “love” of the famous passage from 1 Corinthians 13 (that it is “patient,” “kind,” etc.), the staple of so many Christian weddings, for example, is translated from caritas in the Latin. The Latin word caritas is most often translated as “charity,” but a better meaning is “love” – a certain kind of love, though, one that’s selfless, that puts others first. The show’s tension and success stem not from its oft-touted emphasis on kindness, but from its ability to embody something that in the past would have been called caritas. It isn’t a happy-go-lucky dramatization of optimism, but about the work and necessity of building communities in which we draw strength from one another.


This is one of the very few area where Tumblr is actually functions more reasonably than other social media platforms.Consequently, you cannot “steal” user engagement from someone by reblogging their post.This means that user engagement from your likes and reblogs can potential accrue to two different people, the original poster and the person you liked or reblogged from.If the person you liked or reblogged a post from wasn’t the original poster (i.e., you’re liking or reblogging a reblog), it also counts as user engagement for the original poster, and shows up in their notifications as well.When you like or reblog a post, that counts as user engagement for the person you liked or reblogged from, and shows up in their notifications.A brief summary of how user engagement is tracked on Tumblr, for the newcomer:
