‘White-Collar Quarantine’ Over Virus Spotlights Class Divide

Noam Scheiber, Nelson D. Schwartz and Tiffany Hsu writing at the New York Times:

… a kind of pandemic caste system is rapidly developing: the rich holed up in vacation properties; the middle class marooned at home with restless children; the working class on the front lines of the economy, stretched to the limit by the demands of work and parenting, if there is even work to be had.