When I got home that night, after the adrenaline stopped pumping, the fright seemed to me a metaphor for how we’ve dealt with COVID-19. Raised on fairy tales, I have never given up looking for happy endings. Raised on fables, I have never given up looking for lessons. The virus was all around us, threatening on every street corner, at every deli counter. But once attacked, every victim was alone. Those who were taken to hospitals died in isolation, cut off from their loved ones. Then experts and everyday people joined forces. Scientists took to their laboratories to create vaccines; volunteers risked their lives to serve as guinea pigs. Heroes provided us with hope for rescue. But on Jan. 6, another peril knocked us off our feet. This time, the monster pounding on the gate was not disease but terror, an angry crowd spreading vitriol as marauders invaded the U.S. Capitol building. It was a scare of a wholly different nature, sharing with the pandemic only two things: its ability to shock and threaten. We’d been mesmerized by daily death counts on the newspaper’s front page, and now we were glued to our TVs watching enraged supporters of President Trump… Read full this story
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