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When did you realize COVID-19 was going to change the world?

This is a really good question, one I've asked myself periodically over the last two years. I think it happened quite early, because there was such upheaval in our family: the rush back to Europe from the US for S. before borders closed, having such a close brush with death for T. right at the start of the pandemic in France which made us really aware of how dangerous the virus (and it's side effects) could be, having to cancel our plans to celebrate S.'s college graduation and knowing that there's never going to be another opportunity like that...Yet those were things in our family, so I knew my personal world had changed but did I think the whole world had changed? I think that realization happened more with the second lockdown in the fall of 2020. Because it showed how there was no 'going back to normal' without really bad consequences, no matter how much wishful thinking.