Is your workplace closed? Travel plans canceled? Avoiding crowded places like your gym and looking for substitute activities? More and more of us will find ourselves answering yes to these questions over the coming days, and if you do, I want to talk to you. I want to send you house-to-house, visiting the elderly and making food deliveries to those who are quarantined.
As I write this column, tens of thousands of Israelis are already quarantined, and the government has just made new rules that will require many more to stay home. Let’s fast-forward a few weeks (or even days), when this virus may well have spread, and hundreds of thousands of people are in self-isolation.
