Here’s a look back at two years of the pandemic in New York City.

If somebody had informed you on March 1, 2020, what the subsequent two years held for New York Metropolis, you wouldn’t have believed it.

The governor of New York stated that day that there could be “neighborhood unfold” of the brand new illness however that there was “no cause for concern.” The mayor stated that the virus “could possibly be wherever” however informed folks to go about their regular lives. It sounded cheap.

The speed at which catastrophe ensued was in each sense of the phrase breathtaking. A mighty metropolis silenced. 1000’s dying alone. Our bodies stacked in freezer vehicles. Half one million folks out of labor.

Two years and 40,000 deaths later, there stay rips and rifts within the social cloth that haven’t been repaired and is probably not for some time. One thing has been misplaced, some type of belief maybe. Time has been misplaced, undoubtedly. And but the dire predictions of a metropolis broken past restore proved fallacious.

As Plague Yr 3 dawns, New Yorkers know that there isn’t any going again to “earlier than.” An excessive amount of has occurred. That shore is simply too distant.