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Not being able to leave one’s home is a tiny worry compared with needing to abandon one’s home altogether. It might not be a big deal at all—if it weren’t for the fact that there’s nowhere else to go but outside, because of the coronavirus. The spread of a novel pathogen might not be the result of climate change, but it is linked: As humans push the boundaries of where we live and make animal habitats our own, animals are in turn more likely to give us diseases. “We’re not doing it on purpose, but it’s our everyday way of going about business on the planet that seems to be driving this,” a zoologist who studies coronaviruses in bats told Slate in March, just before shelter-in-place orders and directives to flatten the curve forced all Americans who could to not leave their homes.

So what did we do in response? We bought standing desks, ergonomic chairs, cute sweatpants, soft, wireless bras; we declared we were never wearing bras again; we live in our homes now. We bought absolutely all the Nintendo Switches. We held parties on our computers; we learned to socialize and exercise and eat and sleep and go to therapy and go to school and date from the safety of our climate change bunkers. Look around you. Welcome to yours.