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Many of us have experienced restrictions on movement and social contact during the pandemic. Talk about any restrictions that have especially affected you.

February 16, 2021 In the first week of March 2020, I was attending a conference in Brooklyn, NY. I have been an independent marketing consultant since 1999--a digital nomad before the word existed. Business had slowed under the unstable Trump regime. The United States is not used to political instability, and it affected the corporate budgets I depended on for work. However, things were looking up at the beginning of March 2020. I had been invited to speak at a conference in Florida. I had two very large corporate projects coming in. I had plans to fly to Israel to join my wife and daughter for a Passover holiday. Yes, we had heard about Covid. There were hand sanitizers at the conference. But we did not think it would affect us. A week after the conference the world stopped. Mark the date. March 11, 2020. All work stopped. New York went dark. All travel canceled. I wouldn't have another meal with a live person for nearly six months. I recently found a To-Do list dated March 2, 2020. I wondered if I should keep it as an historical document.