> Those comments come across pretty tone deaf to me. I imagine the person who wrote it doesn't have any young children and enjoys a relatively high degree of privilege.

A whole lot of millennials don't have children and won't anytime soon. Some of us don't have time, money, savings, security, or desire to do so. Assuming kids is what's tone deaf.

Or it’s an assumption that parents are foremost in conversation.

Sounds like they're advocating not sitting around playing video games or trying to make viral TikTok videos, and instead using the government mandated alone time to try and work on things that are difficult in our always-connected world. Just because not literally everyone can make use of this time doesn't mean they are tone deaf.

Depends on how empty or full you think the glass is I suppose. Nothing wrong with encouraging others to be their best version of themselves in a time of crisis.

Like I said, people die every day. More are going to die during April. It sucks. Make the most of a bad situation. As an individual, nothing you do can move the needle (besides the social distancing and other guidance), so look inward.

I think that telling the millions of people living in poverty -- many of whom still have to go into the world and work in the face of great risks, others who will be out of work and struggling to feed their families -- that this is an opportunity for them to be like Isaac Newton is pretty tone deaf. A statement like this only works if you are only talking to people who have the privilege of a safety net.

There are approximately 40 million US citizens living in poverty. Try going to their houses and telling them that Isaac Newton invented calculus during the plague, so they should look at this as an opportunity for them to learn a foreign language or program an app. You might want to plan an escape route before you do so, though.