Nows and Forevers

Five years.

It’s hard to believe it’s been that long since Covid-19 swept across the United States. This was the last normal day before everything went awry, at least in my state. Even though I knew it was coming, it was still disturbing and unsettling and it looked like nothing so much as a tidal wave of fatality and suffering coming straight at us.

And it was.

But with measles on the upswing and the threat of bird flu and whatever else, I wonder if we’ve learned anything.

I don’t think we have.