It began with three heaping platters of sandwiches, fruit and cookies from Fresh Market.

“For the times, they are a changin’.” — Bob Dylan

Over the first two months of the coronavirus crisis, our labor-market cratered. The number of employed North Carolinians dropped by 820,000, or 17 percent. Only 56.3 percent of working-aged residents were either employed or actively looking for jobs. That’s the lowest rate of labor force par…