One of the aspects of the coronavirus and its resulting disease, COVID-19, that astonishes me is the inhumanity of it all. I don’t mean just the unbearable poignance of people dying alone of this and other diseases because of quarantines and travel restrictions., which my friend Anne, a former nurse, finds particularly sad. and which I find especially terrifying. I mean the way people are treating one another.
Read MoreWilliam Holman Hunt with Edward Robert Hughes, “The Lady of Shalott” (1889-92), oil on canvas. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. The painting offers the perfect metaphor for our trapped times.