COVID-19’s Silver Linings
April 21, 2021
As of today, more than 40 percent of Americans have received at least one dose of the COVID vaccine and 26 percent are fully vaccinated. Though it wasn’t planned this way, more normal human life is returning just as the redbuds, azaleas, magnolias, and tulips are performing their gorgeous annual affirmation of renewal. Fears of catastrophic depression, widespread shortages, and massive civil unrest are receding.
Hundreds of thousands of American families and millions worldwide are bereaved, and nearly everyone has experienced some form of disruption, pain, or trauma during the past year. But not everything changed for the worse, and with something like full recovery from the pandemic now visible, we have the agreeable task of sifting through what we’ve learned and deciding what changes we’d like to keep.
