David Byrne Pens Coronavirus Op-Ed: 'We're All in the Same Leaky Boat'

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David Byrne Pens Coronavirus Op-Ed: 'We're All in the Same Leaky Boat'
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“Viruses don’t respect borders. They get in even with extra screening and travel restrictions. Maybe less, but some slips in”

“It’s ironic that as the pandemic forces us into our separate corners, it’s also showing us how intricately we are all connected,” Byrne wrote. “It’s revealing the many ways that our lives intersect almost without our noticing. And it’s showing us just how tenuous our existence becomes when we try to abandon those connections and distance from one another. Health care, housing, race, inequality, the climate — we’re all in the same leaky boat.

He continued, “Viruses don’t respect borders. They get in even with extra screening and travel restrictions. Maybe less, but some slips in. And until there is a vaccine, no one is immune.” Byrne then focused on how some cities around the world responded to the pandemic; in Vo, Italy, site of that country’s first COVID-19 death, the city immediately went into lockdown, tested all the residents and quarantined the infected until the

patients dwindled to zero. In Taiwan, satellite-tracked GPS ensured that quarantined people remain at home. In both cases, personal freedoms were temporarily stifled for the sake of national security.

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