You should. It’s quite powerful. It’s also obviously a hypothetical written in the second-person. Only an idiot would read it and think to themselves “Wait a minute, I’m not a stay-at-home mom with a 5-year-old and an infant! The Atlantic lied to me!”
Having read a little bit of the criticism of it, it sounds like some people interpreted the second-person narrative as a stylized first-person narrative: that when she said [paraphrased] “Your daughter appears to improve before she dies,” she really was saying, “Imagine you’re me, because my daughter appeared to improve before she died.”
That at least makes their misunderstanding not delusional, but it does mean it’s not really the author’s fault.
Nitpick: the scenario is that the woman’s infant initially makes a full recovery, only for doctors to discover eight years later that the virus gave him an irreversible neurological condititon which is causing early-onset dementia and gives him about another 2-3 years to live.
Thanks!