Yesterday 2019 -

Social media hummed with memes about awkward Thanksgiving dinners, not case counts. The word “lockdown” meant prison drills. “Social distancing” wasn’t a phrase. No one had uttered “Pfizer” or “Moderna” in daily conversation.

Now, looking into that yesterday feels like watching home movies of a house before the fire. We see ourselves hugging strangers at concerts, touching elevator buttons without a second thought, coughing in public without a moral panic. yesterday 2019

And we wonder: did we wave goodbye to something permanent without realizing it? Or is that yesterday still waiting for us — just beyond the next turn, once we remember how to breathe easy again? Social media hummed with memes about awkward Thanksgiving