EditorialVehicles cross the International Rainbow Bridge from Niagara Falls, N.Y. into Niagara Falls, Canada on Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, as seen from Canada. (Tara Walton/The New York Times)
EditorialPedestrians on Oxford Street in London, on April 11, 2021, before nonessential retail businesses were allowed to reopen. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)
EditorialNonessential items are surrounded by red-and-white tape, off limits at a store in Paris on April 17, 2021. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)
EditorialA stairway at the famed Pike Place Market in Seattle is cordoned off on March 26, 2020, after Gov. Jay Inslee ordered all nonessential businesses to close. (Ruth Fremson/The New York Times)
EditorialShoppers line up in front of a store at Alexanderplatz in Berlin on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, ahead of Wednesday's lockdown. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times)
EditorialA street in Paris’s Le Marais neighborhood, deserted because of France’s lockdown, on Black Friday, Nov. 27, 2020. (Sabine Mirlesse/The New York Times)
EditorialA protest of mostly Orthodox Jewish residents against new coronavirus restrictions on synagogues, schools, restaurants and nonessential businesses, in the Borough park neighborhood of Brooklyn, on Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020. (Mark Abramson/The New York Times)
EditorialRochester, N.Y., May 11, 2020, which relies heavily on state aid, already has deferred millions of dollars of nonessential expenses. (Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times)
EditorialCustomers shop through the window at a shoe store in Newark, N.J., on the first day that nonessential businesses were allowed to open, May 18, 2020. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialAdam Lindemann, who owns the Venus Over Manhattan gallery, at ICP's 35th annual Infinity Awards, in New York, April 2, 2019. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)
EditorialEmployee Kelly Meca, sells annuals to Karen Mason, left, and her husband Mike Mason, right at the Country Feed Store’s garden center in Amsterdam, N.Y., on Friday, May 15, 2020. (Cindy Schultz/The New York Times)
EditorialJohn Woods, left, the director of programming at Nitehawk Prospect Park, and Matthew Viragh, the theater’s owner, hung a message on the marquis after they were forced to close in the wake of the coronavirus in Brooklyn, N.Y., on Saturday, March 14, 2020. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)