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from Slate<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Terrifying, Liberating Lesson of the Coronavirus Lockdown<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Six months later in America, we\u2019re learning how to live again\u2014and to accept the unimaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0SUSAN MATTHEWS<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Getty Images Plus.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is part of\u00a0<\/em>Six Months In<\/em><\/a>, a Slate series reflecting on half a year of coronavirus lockdown in America.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A little more than six months ago, I sent a Slack message to Slate\u2019s top editors that said \u201cI think things are about to get really bad, virus-wise. We probably need to start thinking about that.\u201d It was roughly a week before America\u2019s shutdowns began and around the time when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was still telling people \u201cthere is more fear, more anxiety, than the facts would justify.\u201d At that point, alongside reporting on some of the basic science of the \u201cnovel coronavirus,\u201d Slate had told the stories of a\u00a0Chinese restaurant devastated by xenophobic fear<\/a>\u00a0and a woman who had\u00a0canceled a $24,000 anniversary cruise<\/a>, and published\u00a0dispatches from Italy<\/a>, which at the time seemed like the darkest possible reflection of what might lie ahead. But still, it felt like no one was quite convinced a pandemic was arriving here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One week later, much of America started to shut down, in some form or another. Slate started to order its employees to work remotely March 11. President Donald Trump gave a speech from the Oval Office that night about the virus, but it felt like it was the suspension of the NBA season and Tom Hanks\u2019 announcement that he\u2019d tested positive that jolted the public consciousness. As the death toll rose, the warnings from abroad got louder alongside our own public health officials\u2019, and it seemed to finally hit many of us that we had to stay inside, isolated, alone,\u00a0for real<\/a>, with the occasional\u00a0sanity-preserving walk<\/a>. In a span of a few weeks, we went from trying to tell stories of how the virus had disrupted some people\u2019s lives to realizing that the virus was disrupting everyone\u2019s lives, and would be for some time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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