“The pandemic wall, as my friend put it this week when we were discussing it, is governmental failure masquerading as personal fatigue. By talking about the pandemic wall, we’re entertaining a fiction where it’s on individuals, and not a broader system, to fight a global public health crisis that is impossible to fight on an individual level. The pandemic wall makes the onus fall on you instead of sharing the burden with the institutions that we reasonably expect to help support us in times of abject crisis.”