And life still goes on

These days, it’s easy to feel like the world’s ending.

Honestly, it’s felt a little bit like the end of the world ever since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’re about two weeks shy of the two-year anniversary of the World Health Organization officially declaring COVID-19 a pandemic, and those early days of shutdowns and restrictions were full of uncertainty and fear. We’re still dealing with COVID’s effects but, for better or worse, we’ve started adjusting to it being part of our daily lives.

But over the past two years, even as we’ve gotten used to a disease that has...