The World Health Organization used the word "pandemic" for the first time about COVID-19, and within days everything that had felt distant — a virus in another country, on the news, not yet here — became the only thing anyone was talking about. Offices sent people home "for two weeks." Schools closed. Shelves emptied of things nobody had thought to stock up on before. Nobody watching that announcement had any idea it was the start of something that would reshape the next two years — lockdowns, remote work, vaccine rollouts — not the next two weeks.
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