There is a coronavirus meme multiplying across clogged internet connections, and it goes like this: Your grandparents were called to war.
You’re being asked to sit on the couch. You can do this. The pandemic is not a war, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the House of Commons earlier this month, although that didn’t stop him — as it hasn’t stopped others — from evoking the danger and destruction of wartime. “There is no front line marked with barbed wire, no soldiers to be destroyed across the ocean, no enemy combatants to defeat,” Trudeau said. “The front line is everywhere: in our homes, in our hospitals and care centres, in our grocery stores and pharmacies, at our truck stops and gas stations.” Trudeau isn’t entirely wrong, say