Last month I wrote a commentary for this page that talked about how quickly things we take for granted can be gone. I started by talking about the three months our Little Egg Harbor library was out of commission due to a power surge and ended by raising the possibility that a time could come when we’d be unable to use the library for fear of venturing into public places.

Unfortunately, it’s taken little more than a month for such dire speculation to begin materializing in a big way, due to the…