One of the most jarring and strange things about consuming the news this week is the way that the endless, cacophonous buzzing of stories about a million different important and odd and interesting and things all seemingly instantaneously flattened into one dreadful thing during of all things an NBA game.
To be sure, the growing threat of the pandemic had already ballooned into a crisis well before Wednesday evening-- even the few cases identified by paltry testing in the United States had been growing and the virus had escalated into a full-on emergency in the Seattle area, concerts and festivals had been postponed and canceled, stores had been emptied of hand sanitizer and toilet paper, and sports leagues had been planning to hold events without crowds while the virus continued its rampage through global hotspots.
March Blog Post
