In the throes of this pandemic, it is quite difficult to register the good in this ordeal. Millions are unemployed. Healthcare workers are stretched thin. The national response has been tepid, crude, and schizophrenic. People are dying. On a personal level, people are resigned to their homes where they might be in fear for their life, not because of the virus, but because of potential abuse. That stimulus check cannot come quickly enough where people need to eat and pay their bills. And life is on pause. Yet, compassion and outreach are in equal abundance. In a human crisis, emotions, on both sides of the spectrum, are amplified. The hope is that there is enough good to override the bad. What is striking about the measures our government has implemented is an underlying compassion—rare for this American government. The unemployed will be given checks, small businesses will be given loans, and corporate America will receive its share of assistance as well. There are valid criticisms for this new stimulus package. It is likely more will be needed in the coming months. We will go past the immediate and entertain a more overreaching notion: This is how a society should treat its people. In normal times, our society should be helping its citizens as if there was a historical pandemic. Any child that goes hungry, any worker that is unfairly dismissed, and anyone who suffers a crippling illness and goes bankrupt, should not be the norm under normal times. Extraordinary measures should be taken even in ordinary times because miniature crises exist in everyday. Pandemics are global but the human toll is personal. Our government, we the people, need to act as if these miniature crises affect us all at once, even in normal times. The obstacle to overcome is that very idea of immediacy. Once this pandemic dies down or lays dormant, we will return to business as usual. But, we will still express loss, heartache, surprise, and grief. Now, we all experience loss, heartache, surprise, and grief. Our timeline of shared emotion is condensed. Everyday life spreads out our collective misery, fragmenting one major, human crisis into isolated cases. If history has told us anything, we will not have found enlightenment all of a sudden. Our push toward a better future will continue to be increment with momentary periods of regression. If this pandemic has taught us anything, a nice preview of things to come with more pandemics and the effects of climate change, we need to share this collective misery and act, as if the world is falling apart—because it is.