A description of our present situation could well be “so near and yet so far”. Locked-in and in quasi-quarantine, we are unable to meet even those friends and colleagues who live close-by. COVID-19 has forced us to be home-bound and to shun close contact with anyone outside the household. Strangely, though, as we remain confined, the precise opposite of the opening phrase is also true: “So far and yet so near.” Friends and colleagues —some from our distant past — living in other countries or faraway places are re. . .
