Hard to believe, looking back, that I thought this was possible, even probable, on Feb. 24.
I’d been comparing covid to other widespread epidemics that have lasted just a couple of months, including the two-month duration of the largest wave of the Spanish flu.
How naïve of me, thinking back. Masks hadn’t been discussed very much at all at that point and I was very surprised to see someone wearing one. And I’d never worn one at any time before in my entire life.
Even through childhood with things like measles, polio, chickenpox, mumps, flu, tetanus, whooping cough going around.
Not to mention all of the more recent pandemics.
Now it feels like Feb. 24 was in a different life and a different lifetime…
And yes, I wear a mask.