Sugar Beach
THE KID might ask his dad why he still must be so careful. The kid reads the papers. He knows cases are going down. So why can’t he see his friends? Why can’t he frolic on the jungle gym? To which the father might respond, Kid, throwing out our precautions just as our precautions are suppressing the virus would be, per Ruth Bader Ginsburg, like “throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you aren’t getting wet.”