Coronavirus Chronicles: You come back, one year!
Day 366 ... One year ago today, I blogged about the pandemic for the first time. The last year has held the strange distinction of feeling it went by super quickly and that it was never going to end. But here we are, more than a year into the pandemic, and I can't help but reflect about how things evolved in the last year. That first month, everyone was so shellshocked by the emerging crisis. Between the lockdowns and the initial reports that the virus was far more infectious than it was, people were genuinely freaked. There were so many unknowns, so a sense of dread and helplessness was natural. The country needed about a month more of serious measures last spring than we actually had. People got too antsy -- Americans just aren't a patient bunch, and the political climate didn't help. The second wave, and then third and fourth waves, happened and lived up to the worst fears scientists had predicted. However, we learned to live with the pandemic. The more we learned abou