It really does seem like people are trying their best. Businesses are rallying, offering novel sales and enacting new protocols to keep people fed and healthy. It’s encouraging. I’ve (virtually) talked with some friends over the past few days, and you can tell people are struggling. With money, with boredom, with accepting this new global reality. It sinks in, it hits you, that we are all interconnected.

It helps to beseech gratitude—it can always be worse. But today I got the genuine sense that we are getting through this. People are trying, they’re acting selflessly. In many places, the curve is flattening. We can do this as a species. I hope it has incentivized us for the future as well. We can change this world. We can be proud of what we leave for our children’s children.