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Family Fun Time: Quarantine Edition

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Family Fun Time: Quarantine Edition Family movie nights.  Family dinner nights.  Family walks.  Family bike rides.  Family “clean the house” nights.  Definitely not family trips to the supermarket, but definitely family discussions around the dinner table.  Family.  Family.  Family.  The last time my family was this together, we were all at least five years younger and I don’t think my brother had yet started shaving.  Now one of us is in eighth grade, one of us is a senior in college, and one of us is, for now, gainfully employed, and yet here we are, together again.  The nuclear family has returned to its ancestral homeland: suburban New Jersey. The coronavirus has done many things.  It has highlighted the flaws in the U.S healthcare system.  It has created extreme financial uncertainty, and it has wiped the nation clean of its toilet paper.  When the virus first leapt into the public conscious it was a problem for China.  Specifically, it was a problem for elderly Chine