When we went into lockdown in late March, there were, give or take, a million confirmed cases of coronavirus in the world.

At the time — I think of March and April as the early days, the panic weeks, the uncertain months — we scuttled into survival mode, super-stocking up, getting ready to hibernate like bears in winter. We were fighting for our lives...

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