As America appears to be emerging from the worst of the pandemic, and at least the numbers are well down and are going in the right direction, I looked back at a blog I wrote a year ago. At that stage, things were getting progressively worse, and the summer outlook bleak. Schools had gone to remote learning, groceries were being delivered or seniors arose at dawn to do their shopping, Amazon was doing a huge business – and that was just our house. People were stockpiling toilet paper and spray sanitizer. Well, thank goodness we’re beginning to see improvements. Lots of people have been vaccinated, stores and restaurants are cautiously reopening, and restrictions are starting to disappear. I had to pick up a few things yesterday afternoon at the supermarket – fully masked – and for the first time, the one-way aisle markers were gone.
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