It’s necessary and important to report on this pandemic and what we can do to protect ourselves and our loved ones. It’s equally important in my view to begin a conversation about how we preserve our social and communal order during a time when we should not be in community. Being told not to be with friends and loved ones, not to touch one another is sensible and needed BUT is also completely against our impulse to care for each by drawing closer during times such as these. What will be the long term damage to our social fabric after this is over?