EditorialMarion Sassman, a former postal worker, receives a meal from Cabarrus Meals on Wheels, in Kannapolis, N.C., April 9, 2021. (Travis Dove/The New York Times)
EditorialMeals on Wheels volunteer Stacy Mark hands out hot and cold food to people in their apartment buildings in the Lower East Side of New York, Friday, April 24, 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic. (Brittainy Newman/The New York Times)