Here Comes the Pain, Shared and Otherwise

The real story of this present crisis is not the numerical one, but the human one.

Waiting area of an unemployment office. Photo by Bytemarks

“There is no new experience in life,” wrote Horace McCoy, bed-rocking the brutal fatalism of his Great Depression-era story They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? “Something may happen to you that you think has never happened before, that you think is brand new…