These are interesting times.  Our schools are shut down.  Transportation halted.  Businesses shuttered.  Public spaces abandoned.  Cities locked down.  Stock markets crashing.  It is the greatest disruption to life we have faced since 9/11, and this will last much longer. It’s not hyperbole to say that we are on a wartime footing, and every aspect of life has been affected by this battle with COVID-19.  A national emergency has been …

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“Made in China.” Words ubiquitous throughout the products we use every day and now, ironically, applicable to the virus that has laid siege around the world.  Illness and death have spread across borders and continents, as well as fear and panic.  Illness and death we can quantify in numbers, however, fear and panic are less easily measured than felt in our news feeds and social media posts.  It is the …

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