i'm still struggling to re-establish a sense of normalcy after covid. my life is not what it was previously, and it may never be. i am overwhelmingly worse off than i was before covid.

i want my pre-covid life back and will probably never get it back. covid-era policy restrictions may define the rest of my life.

but, for people under the age of 30 and especially under the age of 25 today, covid-era restrictions - and the traumatic experience of growing up in the pandemic - will form the core of experiences that define their entire life. what's after z is omicron. we haven't seen anything like this since the depression.