We left a world we might not get back to.
Many things that we took for granted never returned to their former levels, with no guarantee they ever will. The pandemic took a hammer to society and left us struggling to climb back from shutdowns, from fear and from illness.
It can be easy, in the bustle of our daily lives, to forget — or look away from — how huge the disruption was half a decade ago.
The numbers will be there to remind us.
