I became Quartz’s new editor in chief in January. Within just a few weeks, our reporters and editors in Hong Kong had published their first stories about the new coronavirus and started working at home. Since then, the virus has turned into the story, a catastrophe both sudden and slow-moving, and it feels as though both time and space have collapsed. So many of us are confined in our homes, and yet it’s more obvious than ever how connected to each other we all are, wherever we are in the world, by the illness itself and our collective fear and grief, by video conferencing and supply chains, and by the choices we make every day that affect other people and could save lives. |