"In short, because of the continued rise in infection rates, it doesn’t look like we’ll be getting back together face-to-face anytime soon. And if that’s the case, we have to ask a painful but obvious question: What if for the foreseeable future, as seems likely, this is the new normal?"

True Christian freedom doesn’t have anything to do endangering public health by whining like a petulant adolescent that your right to do as you like is more important than everyone else’s public health and their need to be protected from entitled wingnuts with guns, flags, and crosses.

Instead of making us more insular, what if our enforced time of separation opens our eyes and ears to a world we were conveniently able to avoid when going about our daily lives as we chose was something we took for granted?

What if we used this as an opportunity not to isolate ourselves from threats, but to embrace other humans?