The global coronavirus pandemic, officially 1 year old today, has tested all of us. And each of us has had to draw on our own sources of resilience to make new sense of our lives.
Some, like Obdulia Montealegre Guzmán, who sells tacos on the streets of Mexico City, have turned to their family. Hugo Tiedje, a budding actor in Germany, found strength in a community of artists and support from government aid. In Taiwan, real estate broker Yi-Ling Huang was comforted by the communal solidarity and compliance with government guidelines that is a hallmark of Taiwanese society. Syrian refugee Hanen Nanaa was just grateful to be locked down in Toronto rather than in her war-torn hometown of Aleppo.