India, March 9 -- No book or film prepared us for 2020. We had watched blockbusters about asteroid hits, zombie apocalypses, food wars, fury roads and robot revolutions. We'd even watched movies about global pandemics. They all involved movement, action, purpose.
No director thought to make a movie about a virus that forces the global population to simply stay frozen in place, oscillating between paranoia and boredom.
So, from the start, the virus tested our ideas of our world.
When the World Health Organization announced how Covid-19 spread, some people chose to mask up, wash their hands and avoid crowds. Others didn't. Amid streams of new data, we each had to decide who we believed, and how we navigated our relationships with those who...