NEW YORK -- In a Harlem cafe late last week, a woman reading her cellphone sneezed without covering her mouth. On an ordinary day, the fleeting moment would pass barely noticed. But these are not ordinary days.The woman's downward-directed sneeze, in the narrow confines of PROOF Coffee Roasters,
NEW YORK — In a Harlem cafe late last week, a woman reading her cellphone sneezed without covering her mouth. On an ordinary day, the fleeting moment would pass barely noticed. But these are not ordinary days.
This creeping uncertainty can be fueled by the very steps taken to reassure. President Donald Trump’s declaration of a national emergency; Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s dispatch of the National Guard to a “containment zone” in the Westchester city of New Rochelle. Do these steps calm us, or unnerve us? To curtail the coronavirus’s spread, our government and institutions are calling off the community activities by which we measure time. It is as if the month of March — and, so far, a good part of April — has been canceled.
“These are important symbols, enhancing people’s sense of belonging and community,” Stephen Taylor, a professor and clinical psychologist at the University of British Columbia who has written about the psychology of pandemics. “You take those symbols away, and people are going to feel stressed, and a sense of loss. It’s a real trade-off.”
In central New Jersey, an assisted-living center made the increasingly common decision to stave off contagion by restricting visitors. Art Nacht, a web publisher, worried what this might mean for one of its residents: his father, Alan Nacht. In the end, Nacht said that he had no choice. “Not going to abandon him there in a worse incubator than a cruise ship,” he said.
Even the backup option of getting married in the county courthouse could be foiled, since government offices around the country were being shut down or closed to visitors. “When you don’t know what the scale or duration is going to be, it can be very upsetting,” David S. Jones, a professor of the culture of medicine at Harvard University, said. And he spoke from some experience.
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