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we began planning this special issue

of TIME before any of us had heard the

phrase flatte n the curve, much less contem-

plated our own roles in the flattening. Its

theme—getting out of silos and coming

together as communities—is one we’ve

been thinking about a lot here over the

past fe w years. The world we cover is in-

creasingly tribal and polarized—some

studies suggest that empathy itself is

in decline—and yet so many of the chal-

lenges we face require us to act together.

And none more so than this pandemic

that is testing our collective strength even

in isolation. What does it take to get us

to see beyond ourselves, beyond our

divisions, and look out for one another?

I started as TIME’s editor in 2017,

right after a one-two punch of tragedy in

the news: the violent protests by white

supremacists in Charlottesville, Va., that

killed a 32-year-old woman and injured

many more, followed 13 days later by the

devastation of Hurricane Harvey. Our

cover the week of Charlottes ville was

Hate in America. By contrast, in the issue

after Harvey, a moving column by my

colleague Susanna Schrobs dorff— inspired

by the extraordinary scenes of human

chains, of strangers risking their lives to help

strangers, of dogs, horses and hawks being

pulled out of the floods—told a different

story about the character and potential

of our communities.

“Over and over, you hear people

being reassured as they are supported

by the arms of strangers. ‘We’ve

got you ... I’ve got you ...

You’re O.K.,’ ” she wrote. “Even

those of us who live far from

Houston have been jolted out

of our silos.”

That is the epic test of

character that we face now.

Apart. Not Alone, a special

issue overseen by Lori Frad-

kin, is devoted to stories of

and by people who are forcing us out of our

corners as we focus on a shared threat that

is suddenly connecting the entire world.

Some are doing it by throwing themselves

into the fray as first responders—the

courageous medical workers isolating

themselves from their own families as

they treat patients with the virus, the bus

drivers delivering meals to kids in need

whose schools have closed, and the leaders

from businesses and nonprofit organiza-

tions, like the subject of this issue’s

cover profile, José Andrés, with whom

TIME’s Sean Gregory spent weeks

traveling from one crisis to the next, only

to find Andrés on the front lines of the

coronavirus outbreak as this issue headed

to press.

Our government must do much more to

support the frontline responders. But we

all have a role to play as billions of people

now are, by staying at home, often despite

extreme hardship. It’s hard to fathom

another moment when so many of us will

find ours elves so dependent on the goodwill

of strangers.

We are apart, but we are not alone.

“We wave hello and talk across our tiny

yards,” the journalist and novelist Connie

Schultz writes of her neighborhood in

Cleveland. “The questions rise like songs:

‘How are you holding up?’ ‘What do

you need?’ ‘How can I help?’ The

chorus is always the same: I see you.”

We don’t know when this storm

will pass. But we do know how

to help.

“Without empathy,”

Andrés tells us,

“nothing works.”

SETTING THE RECORD

STRAIGHT ▶ An article in the

March 30 issue, “Postpartum

anxiety goes undiagnosed,” stated

that Dr. Samantha Meltzer-Brody

believed that anxiety could be

one way in which postpartum

depression manife sts but that it

was not a distinct category. She said

this in a 2017 interview, and her

view has changed since then. She

now says many professionals in the

field endors e the idea of anxiety

as a distinct category of perinatal

mental-health disorders.

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