1 Year: Post Covid

You wouldn’t imagine, nor believe, if I had told you the streets of Times Square were empty except for the homeless and pigeons that inhabited it. No one could imagine it; when we were cooped up in our homes and we were glued to our screens to find out: what will happen next? People were warned and told to stay home, shops were shut down, taxis were parked, the MTA was stopping at certain times, and no one could imagine NYC as a ghost land. But we witnessed it.

I apologize if it sounds like I’m being over-dramatic, but I’m not. You can ask anyone that lived during Co-vid19 in 2020 if this happened. It was my last year in college and we were told that the school will be shut down for the time being, no one knew that it be the last day to see our classmates. We thought we will come back in 3 weeks. We were terribly wrong.

After an entire year, well a year and a half, most of the country is now vaccinating people to prevent the virus. More than thousands of people have died worldwide because of this virus. What once a ghost town has returned to the bustling city that once was. I’m sitting here in a café and writing this article without my mask. So much has happened in 2020, and 2021 was just a continuation but with more caution. Only recently has the governor of New York lifted the restriction on everything, so now eventually everyone will stop wearing masks indoors and everyone will go back to their offices. However, it won’t be that easy to go back to our daily life, things have changed, maybe for the best, or for the worst. We won’t know till we find out. But isn’t that life? Ups and downs?

Let’s just hope we get through anything just like we got through 2020.