Seattle is the first U.S. epicenter. In early March, when there are just five hundred known cases of coronavirus in the whole country, I fly home from a conference to a city in suspended animation. My Lyft from the airport takes half its usual time, even at rush hour, because rush hour is no longer a thing. Microsoft and Amazon sent everyone to work from home, the driver says, taking hundreds of thousands of cars off the streets. I worked at Amazon for over a decade and, well, let’s just say employee health never seemed like a priority. Amazon sending workers home tells me we’re in an apocalypse.
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