A woman from Wuhan, China, is married to a man from Lombardy, Italy. Now living in the U.S., they recall measuring this crisis in time — back when those around them still had the luxury of measuring distance in miles.
Liying, 31, lives now in suburban Connecticut, but she was born in Wuhan, the city in China where the novel coronavirus was first detected in late December. She was following the terrifying updates from her extended family there. Desperate to help, she started fundraising with other Chinese Americans in her neighborhood to buy N95 masks and other medical supplies on eBay to send back to overwhelmed hospitals in Wuhan.
Customers buy protective face masks in a pharmacy in Wuhan in January. In the U.S., Liying started fundraising with other Chinese Americans in her neighborhood to buy N95 masks and other medical supplies on eBay to send to overwhelmed hospitals in Wuhan.But Liying wasn't measuring her distance from the pandemic in space. She was thinking on the scale of time: How many weeks until those masks would arrive? How many days before the last cargo flight from the U.S.
Protective masks bearing the names of medical staffers and nurses are pinned to a wall in April at a field hospital for coronavirus patients outside the Cremona hospital in Lombardy, Italy.Protective masks bearing the names of medical staffers and nurses are pinned to a wall in April at a field hospital for coronavirus patients outside the Cremona hospital in Lombardy, Italy.That's part of the loneliness, or isolation feeling ...
A man wearing protective gear sprays disinfectant on Piazza Duomo in Milan, in Lombardy, Italy, in March. Federico, who is from Lombardy, and his wife Liying, from Wuhan, pulled their younger child out of day care, and forbid both their children from going to playgrounds, weeks before anyone around them in Connecticut did the same.The disconnect that Liying and Federico felt in their own kitchen is now playing out across the United States.
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