Opinion

We are, as a nation, several weeks into the coronavirus pandemic. We have, all of us, changed our lives dramatically. Schools are closed, restaurants serving only take-out meals, other essential retail outlets are asking customers to keep six feet of space between them, movie theaters sit in idle silence waiting for the coronavirus to depart and for humans to return. We are working and learning from home and grocery shopping only when we must...

All but essential workers, the stay-at-home order declared. As the numbers of positive cases and deaths climb on a red-and-orange map of Indiana on the Department of Health website, our healthcare workers are the first ones to know it and see it for themselves...

In these uncertain times, with the general public ordered to stay home, schools closed, movie theaters abandoned, sporting events canceled, restaurants open only for takeout and all but essential businesses closed for the forseeable future, most families find themselves together 24/7, with no viable options to spend time anywhere other than the family home...

Editor’s Note: This editorial is reprinted with permission from America’s Newspapers San Francisco and six Bay Area counties, with a combined population of nearly 7 million, are under “shelter-in-place” orders directing everyone to basically stay inside their homes for the next three weeks in hopes of suppressing the rapid spread of COVID-19 across the region...