Coronavirus has interrupted life as usual, and, for the Left, this has meant a delayed reckoning with what many pundits are eager to proclaim: the Bernie Sanders campaign, a once-in-a-lifetime insurgent campaign that many of us have spent every free second of our lives working for, is currently facing a very steep margin to overcome against Joe Biden in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The campaign now faces a harrowing choice. If Sanders drops out, as mainstream media and centrist liberals are urging him to do, Biden and the establishment won’t budge an inch, and a generation of socialists and progressives is demoralized. If Sanders stays in, his campaign is severely limited without the ability to hold big rallies or canvasses because of the pandemic, in addition to the many other enormous hurdles he faces.

There is another option, though: stay in the race, but make a wholesale transition from campaigning for the nomination to campaigning for Bernie’s coronavirus policy — not just redirecting some donations to charity or sending text messages to encourage social distancing, but transforming the entire organizational apparatus of the Bernie campaign into a virus-fighting machine.