A global war, an intimate dread, and, eventually, a strange sort of normalcy
’s national emergency—I went out in search of N95 masks for some of my neighbors. And with Larson on the brain, I walked Manhattan’s streets searching for signs of that long-ago British spirit. The box of masks that I had bought for $30 just 10 days before—a lifetime ago—was now selling for $200 at my corner Basics Plus. There was an innocence to it all, just 10 days prior.
On the tables, my cohostess and I placed precautionary Purell bottles. At the time, it seemed like a grim joke but a modicum of humor and irony seemed necessary to gird us for what might be coming. And come it did. At 6 p.m. that night, the guest of honor informed me someone in her office was being tested for the virus, having learned he might have been exposed to someone who had been exposed to someone else, who was waiting for his COVID-19 test results. “Should we call it off?” she asked.
Two nights before, several of us had huddled in the balcony at the 92nd Street Y, attending an SRO screening of the first episode of the limited series’s adaptation of Philip Roth’s masterwork that imagines what happens in 1940 when Charles Lindbergh, the heroic pilot turned authoritarian and anti-Semite, beats Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1940 election. The opening sentence of Roth’s 2004 novel still evokes chills: “Fear presides over these memories, a perpetual fear.
And yet, once outside, I see hints of American resolve and resourcefulness that echo that of the British in the 1940s. I am struck by a quiet dignity among my neighbors, almost a normalcy. I encounter an orderliness, a sense of purpose among those I pass, a solitary flag. Despite the social media and TV reports of raiding supermarket shelves, there doesn’t appear to be out-and-out food panic—not yet, anyway.
As I leave the farmers market, there is one stand without a single customer. “Potato vodka?” the artisan seller asks hopefully, offering a sample. We are all going to need it.
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