In Each Other’s Shoes: Notes From a Crisis

As a pandemic continues across the world and social distancing has become the status quo, the motto has become, “We’re all in this together.” We sure are.

A Beaches Emergency Assistance Ministry volunteer loads food into bags for distribution during a mobile pantry visit in Atlantic Beach, Fla., on April 18, 2020. Sam Greenwood/Getty Images

As a pandemic continues across the world and social distancing has become the status quo, the motto has become, “We’re all in this together.” We sure are.

There are faint signs of a possible light at the end of the tunnel. Increasingly, focus will be given to how we’ll manage leaving this strange cocoon we’ve constructed and enter what will undoubtedly be a new normal.