'It's like a remote sleepover': my week meeting quarantined strangers

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'It's like a remote sleepover': my week meeting quarantined strangers
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The Quarantine Chat app pairs users by phone with strangers around the world in some degree of isolation, a one-on-one human connection in a time of chaos

Just before everything changed, one week ago, I was out in the backyard with my kids. I remember that the moon rose early and bright, and when I pointed to it, my five-year-old said confidently: “That’s not the moon. It’s a quarter floating in the sky.” It took me by surprise, the poetry of his words, and so we giggled and tried to pluck it from the branches of a tree.Last Thursday was the first day I kept the kids home from school, though schools in Arizona were technically still open.

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