Our COVID-19 winter

As spring dawned, the coronavirus pandemic exploded on the scene. This paper’s first COVID-19 editorial, “Taking flattening the curve seriously,” was dated March 25.

Additional editorials on the pandemic have followed. Early on, some saw the massive change wrought in society and postulated the possibility of “a new normal,” a paradigm shift directing us toward a more just and sustainable future.

Alas, the resulting disruption to the old normal, the everyday routine of work, school and socializing threw our society in general, and many of us and our neighbors in particular, into a ditch.

The wr...