Dispatches from socially distancing faculty and staff
This is part of our Coronavirus Update series in which Harvard specialists in epidemiology, infectious disease, economics, politics, and other disciplines offer insights into what the latest developments in the COVID-19 outbreak may bring. Socially distancing at home has been productive for building manager Jonathan Savilonis and his twin 5-year-old sons, Julius and Lysander. They had been working on a LEGO model of the Music Building, which includes the Loeb Music Library and John Knowles Paine Concert Hall, for nearly six months when Savilonis did a few sketches and started thinking about how to scale up the project. Now that the family has extra time inside, they’ve made good progress. “We made a fairly expensive purchase of 3,000 red masonry bricks and some windows from a brick seller in Germany last month,” Savilonis said. “We started building on March 17 when the order arrived. Having all the ordered parts I need and...