Life in the time of coronavirus in America has changed virtually overnight. The dregs from the back of the pantry and a stiff drink at the end of another day of life, suspended. And she’s anxious that her two roommates — one works at a call center, the other at a soda company — might bring the virus home from work. Coronavirus America is a constant hum of free-floating anxiety, of late-night worries about how life will ever wind back toward what it was just a few days ago. And as the flight from Philadelphia landed in Bangor, so did news that Maine had its first coronavirus case.

Source: Washington Post March 14, 2020 19:34 UTC