Our Home-Isolation Comes With A Sober Realization: This, Actually, Is Who We Are

The necessary response to the pandemic has, after all, intensified hugeswaths of the population’s pre-pandemic situations. The economically andmedically fragile are at new risk;the cloistered and privileged have only thickened the walls of theirbubble. Single people feel extremely single. People in relationships arenow super-duper in relationships. The home has become not a refuge fromthe world’s arena but rather the arena itself. It’s thus tempting tothink of the crisis as a