Forbes March 28, 2020
Being a few weeks into the pandemic here in the U.S., some lessons are beginning to emerge. Some are crystal clear—like, health care workers are amazing and we owe them a huge debt (here’s a nice medley of #clapbecausewecare videos from NYC’s moving show of support last night); same for grocery store employees, deliverymen and -women, and the many other essential workers who keep us going. Other lessons are fuzzier, but starting to come into focus each day. And some of course won’t be clear until we’re further along, and epidemiologists, policy makers, and academics look back and try to understand what happened, hopefully with the benefit of hindsight.
But here are some funny lessons the pandemic has brought so...