Nows and Forevers

Three years ago today I was on our local public radio station for a live interview about Covid. I’m by no means a public health expert, but I do cover health care and the minute the mysterious and deadly virus started getting attention in China, I began to worry that this might end up being a global pandemic.

This interview was in late February 2020, when a significant portion of the population was blissfully unaware of how much our lives were going to change in less than two weeks. I had been writing stories about the issue since Jan. 21, 2020, about five or six weeks before this interview. What would become known as Covid-19 became an increasing part of my work, whether it was covering what was happening to our local companies in China and, later, Italy and the UK, or the preparations that were being made in the event cases were going to appear here.

In my mind, it didn’t take too much imagination to realize they would. People much smarter than me let me know that it was only a matter of time.

Things started moving quickly after this interview, I’ll tell you that.