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    What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Living With Pandemics in

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  2. "Along with rational panic, we need sources of rational hope," writes

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  3. "'Steven Universe Future' delivers an even more poignant and direct message as the hero begins to understand the roots of his post-traumatic stress," writes 

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  4. "We are now all focused on our coronavirus pandemic, but we also face a loneliness pandemic across the industrialized world — and the measures to address the former may inflame the latter," writes, telling the story of his late friend Keylan.

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    Early this year I wrote "Who Killed the Knapp Family," about my childhood neighbors who died from "deaths of despair." The lone survivor was Keylan, because he was in prison. Now a wrenching postscript, and a reminder of another pandemic that we must face:

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    I've been noticing how closely the right-wing response to Covid-19 mirrors climate-change denial, albeit on a vastly accelerated time scale. So I wrote up some thoughts about why.

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  7. Bret Stephens writes that his mother "knows that calamities happen in the lives of people as well as nations — and that they happen far more quickly, unexpectedly and irreversibly than most members of my generation have either known or been led to expect."

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  8. "Mr. Trump is essentially making a massive bet that political polarization is a more powerful force than the virus’s body count," writes

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  9. "Maybe our misery now, like Lear’s, will help us to see the meaning in the lives of others," writes . "Maybe, like Shakespeare, we should focus not on statistics but on the wonderfully, weirdly, cussedly, irredeemably individual."

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  10. Nationalism should have no place in medical discourse, writes Ian Buruma.

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    ‘Not enough manufacturing activities can be converted to produce masks in a matter of weeks. You can’t turn engine-making machinery into an N-95 respirator assembly line just because you want to.’

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  12. The consequences of global warming will take many decades to play out, giving fossil-fuel interests plenty of time to take the money and run, but we’re already seeing catastrophic consequences of virus denial after just a few weeks, writes

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  13. After a two- or three-month lockdown, we could begin to be open for business, while requiring those 70 and older, or others at high risk, to continue to shelter in place, writes Ezekiel J. Emanuel

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  14. Even before this crisis, an estimated 12 million children were having difficulty completing routine homework assignments because they lacked the home internet access their better-off classmates take for granted.

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  15. "Today, at last, we have panic in surplus — however unevenly distributed and still-insufficient in some places. But now we need something else to leaven it: Along with rational panic, we need sources of rational hope," writes

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  16. "When workers across the country are being told to stay at home, service workers and pharmacists are putting themselves at risk just by doing their jobs," writes 

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  17. Earlier this year, and his wife, Sheryl WuDunn, wrote about the Knapp family and how all but one of the kids, Keylan, had died from deaths of despair. This month Keylan overdosed on heroin and is now gone as well.

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  18. Politicians don't give up power voluntarily, especially when they could use it to exact revenge on their opponents. But 3 weeks ago in Virginia, 9 Democrats did just that, notes .

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  19. "To the surprise of many who did not associate the name 'Andrew Cuomo' with the word 'empathy,' the governor has become a sort of national shrink," writes

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  20. “The top-down conversation around masks has become a case study in how not to communicate with the public,” wrote

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