How COVID-19 Will Reshape Us

The Pandemic Will Wane. Ins and Outs of Daily Life Are Staying on Zoom

Those of us who have lived through the COVID-19 pandemic will almost certainly never forget it. Like my father-in-law who lived through the Depression and could never bear to use a paper towel only once; or my friend Anna who survived the 1941 siege of Moscow and armed herself for decades afterward with stocks of soap and salt, we pandemic people will probably always buy extra rolls of toilet paper. We’ll be comfortable wearing masks. We may even keep baking sourdough bread.

But as we slog through what will clearly now …