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Driving home this week I passed a restaurant near my office in suburban Philadelphia. It was the lunch hour. No cars were in the normally crowded parking lot. Just one lonely tent with their logo and some employees gathered around. I’d forgotten for a second. The governor ordered their dining room closed to customers, just as he ordered all “non-essential” businesses in Pennsylvania to close in the midst of a national pandemic. But that lonely little tent in the parking lot restored some comfort to me during this otherwise surreal time. It was a makeshift drive-through born of necessity at...

The Wuhan coronavirus is serious. It’s deadly to the elderly and the immunocompromised. It’s spreading. It’s a pandemic. Italy is being ravaged by it. Europe is now the epicenter. Incoming travel from Europe by non-citizens has been shut down. Canada closed its borders. In Maryland, bars, restaurants, and movie theaters were shut down. The collar counties around Philadelphia enacted similar methods to contain the spread—and New Jersey has pretty much shut down as well. It’s only a matter of time before Virginia does the same. In Las Vegas, the casinos have ceased operations. The NHL season is over. The NBA...