An Intro to an Intro that Honestly Needs No Introduction The first line of what used to be the last draft of this essay read: “It’s May 2020 and I’m writing this piece during the beginning? Middle? Lord knows, not the end of the Covid-19 outbreak. I’ve been in quarantine for about ten weeks. I’m in New York City, the global center of the pandemic.” It started as a batch of notes that date back to December 2019 for a piece that I thought would become the editor’s letter for the next issue of Talk.