Emma Teitel: Has COVID-19 turned cities into soulless urban wastelands? Not unless it’s changed human nature itself

New York is on life support. New York is dead. New York City is dead forever." This is a mash-up of recent media headlines describing the state of America's most populous city. But it could just as well be a mash-up of headlines describing the state of big cities all over the world that are hollowed out and eerily quiet on account of what else: COVID-19.