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Last March, in the early days of the pandemic, we gave a couple of small donations to organizations aiding the poor and those particularly susceptible to the virus. We gave to certain early-on hard-hit communities like Charlestown, to first responders and to “essential workers.” We did this partly out of passive philanthropy, and partly, it now seems, because we unconsciously believed that, due to our relatively fortunate circumstances, we were somehow immune, impervious to the virus.