<em>The Atlantic Daily: </em>Social Distancing Isn’t Going Away Anytime Soon

Some useful perspective for navigating this peculiar and difficult season:

Today’s coronavirus update, in three sentences:

The U.S. government passed its relief package. Boris Johnson caught it. Trouble is brewing in the southern United States.

What to read if … you just want practical advice:

One question, answered: How is the pandemic affecting the 2020 elections in the U.S.?

Many states have postponed their primary elections, and while we can’t yet see as far as November, we do know that in-person voting, with its crowds and shared surfaces, is an ideal environment for transmission of the coronavirus. A legal scholar proposes a solution for Election Day: “Congress should swiftly pass a law that mandates the option of early voting by mail in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.”

Meanwhile, the campaign process is changing, too: While in-person campaign events don’t make or break presidential races, they’re pretty important for local and state candidates. Those candidates are facing a whole bunch of unique campaign challenges, Adam Harris reports—including child-care and work responsibilities (many of them aren’t running for office full-time) and a lack of funding for advertising.

This weekend’s Atlantic-approved self-quarantine activity:

Throw a virtual PowerPoint party. We promise it’ll be more fun than you’ve ever had with slides. These eighth graders will teach you how.

What to read if … you’d like to read about something—anything—other than the coronavirus:

The true tale of the mobster who bought his kid a minor-league hockey team

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Caroline Mimbs Nyce is a senior associate editor at The Atlantic.