
COVID-19 will have a profound and permanent impact on how we interact with other people and with the world at large. This really hit home to me a month ago. My son and I were walking our dog Emi—a docile, lab-border collie—when two very large dogs (mastiff/Irish wolfhounds, I learn later) rushed out of nowhere and attacked her—biting and snarling, literally at her throat. I clutched her leash, feeling the weight of all three dogs, and scrambled to stay on my feet and get my dog to safety. The owner of the two large dogs soon joined the fray and pulled his dogs back, but he didn’t offer so much as an apologetic glance.
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