I remember a simpler time. I like to call it December 2020. How naive and hopeful we all were back then. In those idyllic days of yore, all we worried about was Covid. Were we going into a lockdown? Would vaccines ever arrive? Did anyone have booze? What a lark it all was.

Then 2021 hit like a fierce bird strike to our left engine, and we’ve been in free fall ever since...

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