The pandemic changed everything — and yet a lot of the world would feel very familiar to a time traveler from late 2019.
In 2019, for instance, Zoom was a fast-growing company trying to get corporations to buy in to the idea that their employees could work from anywhere; in 2023, that battle has been won, and it's now an established company trying to compete against rival products from Google and Microsoft.
If you find yourself in a crowded interior where no one is wearing masks, that's because a huge number of thingschanged, including the development of coronavirus vaccines, a deep political and psychological need to put an end to the uncomfortable liminal period of lockdowns and social distancing, and a cobbled-together new social contract that effectively but invisibly isolates the immunocompromised and others who remain at serious risk from COVID-19.
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