At the same time, entire industries came to a standstill and millions of people lost their jobs. We stayed indoors and, when we had to leave for grocery shopping, we put our masks on to keep others safe. Traveling to meetings was no longer possible and we started working remotely with our physical offices closed. Because you cannot fix what is unfixable, we went through phases of lockdown, from ‘stay-at-home’ to ‘safer-at-home’ to ‘protect your neighbors’. I have no preference, one community over the other, but I know I cannot be parted from either.Īll we could do was to slow the spread and buy time. When I go to my virtual community, I love our many conversations about the ever-changing world in the cloud. People of unlike minds are not close even when within touching distance.’ At home, in isolation, I love to watch flowers as they blossom and fall, and to talk foolish talk with my neighbours. There is a saying in China: ‘People of like minds are not far away even when separated by far-away mountains and seas. Members of this community live in all corners of China some perhaps don’t know each other in person even though they are in the same compound. But the virtual community on my cell phone thrives. The once familiar sense of a bustling neighbourhood has vanished. All the restaurants, bars and shops are closed, some permanently. During this time of isolation, there are so few people to be seen anywhere. One is at the foot of the Imperial City-in Chaonei, in the district of Dongcheng-and the other is on the eastern outskirts-in Heizhuanghu, in the district of Chaoyang. This collection, commissioned to record a history of this time for Norton Rose Fulbright, is proof of that. RE: was founded in 2011 to celebrate diversity. What surprised us was the way in which each writer rose to their task with clarity of purpose and sent in something quite distinctive.
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We asked our writers to explore what it is to be alive in the time of COVID-19 and gave them a certain freedom in how to frame their response-our only steer was to write either within a small and intimate frame or from a wide, sweeping perspective. This collection of essays by writers all over the world was put together in the first half of 2020.
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