Trapped at home. City shut down in panic and fear. We have no experience of this. I keep referencing back to my history lessons of the world wars, because that is when people were stuck inside afraid, that’s when there were food shortages, that’s when businesses collapsed, that’s when highfaluting designers went from making highfaluting designs to essentials. In this case hospital masks.
I imagine during the world wars people judged the state of affairs by the sirens and the number of times they had to take shelter and the number of instances in which they were subject to sounds of bombings.
This is different. We are judging progress in the same way, by the death toll. But we don’t see it. We don’t hear it. We wake up in the middle of the night and check our news apps. We look at the graphic that shows the curve. Which has the number dead that shows up on the screen.
most of the dead are our grandmas and grandpas.