Tag: year-in-review
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2021 year-in-review: Another year we basically have to remember but may end up forgetting anyway

Before last year, whenever I thought of 1918, I thought of World War I. Mass bloodshed is rather memorable, even if it wasn’t your time. I always knew of the Spanish flu, but I was never too interested in life during a plague. And now that we are living through our own, I am more…
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2020 year-in-review: A year we basically have to remember

At the beginning of the year, I ran into a colleague in the elevator and asked about his New Year’s. He said it went fine and well, but that he was worried about coronavirus. Ah, I said, it’s nothing, just a headline from across the globe, and anyway these things are always overblown. In mid-February,…