"Are you muted?" The first thing my five-year-old learned in kindergarten, set up at a tiny desk in the corner of our dining room, is to always stay muted. It's probably the wrong thing to teach a child, but not everyone remembers, and then life bleeds in. Zoom school becomes a portal into worlds you never see as a parent making awkward smalltalk at pickup.You can hear a mom working a job doing collections for medical billing. Call after call.A dad who calls his sister on speakerphone. They fight most days.Grandparents asking how long it’s going to take. There are babies wailing. "Zoom...…"Are you muted?" The first thing my five-year-old learned in kindergarten, set up at a tiny desk in the corner of our dining room, is to always stay muted. It's probably the wrong thing to teach a child, but not everyone remembers, and then life bleeds in. Zoom school becomes a portal into worlds you never see as a parent making awkward smalltalk at pickup.You can hear a mom working a job doing collections for medical billing. Call after call.A dad who calls his sister on speakerphone. They fight most days.Grandparents asking how long it’s going to take. There are babies wailing. "Zoom...WW…