We must reopen Boston’s economy in a safe way, but whether we are able to do so is dependent on decisions at a personal level — and the best way to get there is not through inviting outsiders to come flocking into the neighborhoods that are already more likely to experience disproportionately severe cases of COVID-19.

For every viral image of overflowing passengers crossing an ocean or families packed into tents in a refugee camp, there are millions more people, unphotographed, experiencing the same suffering.

BU must make an additional $96 million worth of financial cuts — after having already cut $168 from its budget — to cover its total $264 million budget shortfall for the 2021 fiscal year beginning July 1, according to an email to faculty and staff from President Robert Brown, dated Monday.