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ummertime. Hard to believe, but half a year has flown by. Much has changed since the beginning of the year, and the world seems to be in a different place. January’s Omicron surge, the lockdown and virtual Zoom meetings during two years of pandemic living, all feels like a bad dream. It’s as if we are waking up from a deep slumber, like Rip Van Winkle in Washington Irving’s story, who falls asleep after drinking a strange brew and wakes up 20 years later to a changed
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world, completely missing the American revolution. We humans are extremely adaptable. Our collective resilience in coping and bouncing back from two traumatic years is remarkable. Yes, there are many scars and much suffering, but as a society we have learned to live with the new reality: moving from fear to freedom. The word COVID doesn’t invoke the same panic it once did, and for the vaccinated, testing “COVID-positive” seems to be a ho-hum hazard, an inconvenience, associated with living your normal daily life. And so as we enter the summer solstice, the celebrations are in full swing. Proms, graduations and weddings, long postponed,
