We’re all survivalists now: Coronapocalypse Adaptation 101

Hunkering down amid a global pandemic whose containability depends on your latitude, longitude, and head of government requires mad adaptation skills.

We’re living in a context in which you can be arrested for loitering in a Halloween costume, as one Spaniard, pictured learned. So if you must go out, leave your phone at home and disguise yourself as a shrub indigenous to your local biome, writes Lisa Van Dusen. Screenshot courtesy of Twitter/MurciaPolicia

Opinion

BY LISA VAN DUSEN

April 1, 2020

Unless you have a history of hoarding canned goods, burying 200-gallon steel drums full of water in your backyard, or securing the perimeter of your bungalow with concertina wire and fougasses, managing the more existential aspects of our current pandemic may not be second nature to you. Hereby, a h...

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