"America was beginning to realize the awful enormity of the coronavirus pandemic. I’ve repressed much of the stressful minutiae of those days, but, when I look back, one memory comes to mind, and, surprisingly, it is not a bad one. On March 12, 2020, Chet Hanks—a rapper and actor on TV shows such as “Empire” and “Shameless,” who is perhaps most famous for being the thirty-year-old son of the actor Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson—took to Instagram to notify the public that his parents had contracted covid-19. “Yeah, it’s true, my parents got coronavirus."