How to stay healthySocial distancing comes at a cost to our mental health, as Abdullah Shihipar writes in The Times. Amid the grimness, there is an opportunity to experiment: “We’re living in a time of virtual happy hours and virtual dance parties, virtual choirs and virtual ‘breath connection,’ virtual church services and virtual potlucks, virtual quarantine Shabbat and virtual sobriety meetings,” she says. Now should also be a time for building social solidarity, the sociologist Eric Klinenberg writes in The Times. While the federal government failed to prepare for the crisis, individuals can still work together to combat it and promote public health. Many people have also found ways of building social solidarity online:

Source: New York Times March 17, 2020 21:56 UTC