I’m beginning to wonder: when I stagger back out into the sunlight in six months, blinking blearily against the glare, my beard-hair gently tickling the top of my feet, and muttering to a half-deflated soccer-ball named Wilson… what will the rest of the world have become? 

At first, our focus was on the virus itself. What is it? How is it spread? How many people have it? (400,000 at the time of writing, about 0.006%