You Can’t Compare This To Anything

Katharine Miller: “One of the more surreal aspects of this is that everything defies comparison.”

“There’s no one-to-one in living memory in American life: a self-imposed stop to the economy and a soft, country-wide quarantine. There’s no fixed point toward which we’re supposed to be enduring, except to stay away to reduce the systemic strain of COVID-19 on people and hospitals. What compares?”