Coronavirus in America is upending our relationship to space, time and each other

In a writing class at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, freshmen were in the “inconvenience phase” of the pandemic. The school is suspending “face-to-face instruction” starting March 23. A teenager’s world, already so virtual, will become even more so. Now seeing a friend from the dorm is going to take a 40-minute car ride instead of a four-step walk across the hall.