As the coronavirus spreads, growing divisions in society only makes things worse

In retrospect, it seems a bit inevitable. On the same day we discovered that 3.3 million Americans filed for unemployment last week, our country passed Italy and China to become the world’s leader in diagnosed coronavirus infections.

Two numbers describing two realities. The gulf between them delineating the widening gap in perspective for many people across the county. Do you see the current crisis primarily through the lens of a pandemic, life-threatening virus or the economic collapse it has wrought?

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