While we all anxiously await and anticipate the end of the pandemic and the “return to normal” that is coming, and for many seems here already, it is important for all of us to examine just what that “normal” should be.
Should it be life exactly as it was in 2019, the pre-COVID days that seem so long ago? Or should it be some version of a “new normal” with the specter of disease and illness lingering over our lives, and lessons learned guiding our lives?
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