![]() Stay safe! As if you have much control over that. Maybe there’s someone you care about who is working a high-risk essential job. Hope you’re well! How could anybody possibly be “well” right now? Setting aside whether you’re actually infected, the likelihood of your knowing somebody who is increases daily. ![]() ![]() The wording has tightened since then, culled to just a “ Hope you’re well!” or, in the case of email chains, a quick “Stay safe!” tossed in before my signature, which includes the cell phone number I’m hoping you’ll call so I can ask you my questions and you’ll tell me what I need to hear so I can continue doing my job. (I’m sorry that it wasn’t a special-just-for-you line and that you have to find out this way.) It signaled, I hope, that I wasn’t a heartless bitch out of touch with the fact that a merciless virus is killing people around the world and here I am sending emails about movies and memes and could your client do a 20-minute phone interview? If you received such an email and chuckled even a little bit, thank you. Hope you are doing as well as one can be amidst Only then would I begin to ask about the thing I actually wanted. In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic - which is to say three weeks ago - I started sending out emails that all opened with roughly the same line. ![]() (Really though, Tom, we are all so glad to hear you and Rita are feeling better.) ![]()
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