Two years ago tonight I was sitting in a sparsely-populated hotel bar in Austin, TX. SXSW had been cancelled days prior, but most of the customers I met that week didn't seem all that concerned about the virus that had begun infecting increasing numbers of people around the world. I watched this happen from a barstool:
It is profoundly amazing to me that two years later we may be done with the pandemic, but it's not done with us. And its echoes will be profound.