The sad relics of life before the pandemic as people go back to work
‘Our year just went from all of these exciting events that we were thrilled about ... and here they are just sitting in a pile of garbage’
10 August 2020 - 08:02
New York — Office workers returning for the first time after their abrupt departures in March are discovering relics of a different life.
Tickets for cancelled concerts. Winter clothes. Milk that expired four months ago. Calendars turned to March. Yellowed newspapers proclaiming the worst stock market crash in decades. That’s just a sampling of things workers are finding as they walk back into offices for the first time since Covid-19 upended normal life...
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