The Rona --- 5 years later
I originally started this blog to document some of the things that happened during the Coronavirus era so that I wouldn't forget them. Now it's 5 years later and a lot of retrospection is going on in some circles. In some ways, for me personally, it seems like Covid-19 never happened. Things have been back to normal for quite some time now and honestly there were bigger issues that I personally had to face during 2020 (notably: cancer). Yet at the same time, it seems like a liminal moment: there was an era before Covid and a different era after. I've taken to calling the before-time "BC" (Before Corona). It's a memorable enough event that I can identify whether something has happened BC or not. I don't have a clever name for the after-time. One notable indication of the effect of the virus on American society is that Donald Trump was re-elected President of the United States. Trump, of course, was president when the Rona hit these shores and it ...