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The phrase "getting back to normal" is beginning to feel tired. I'm at the point where I groan whenever I hear someone say it.
To be clear, I am ready to get things back to normal, but I'm anxious for that time to start as soon as possible. Of course, that's a pipe dream, nothing ever stops completely all at once. That being said, I'm sure many of you have seen pre-pandemic habits and rituals come back since March.
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Did we just pass the turning point and not realize it?
Perhaps -- at least for Americans -- Covid is in our rear view mirror. I've been hinting at this since my Feb. 22 column, when Dr. Martin Makary at Johns Hopkins University predicted we would reach herd immunity by April.
I thought the Fourth of July holiday would be the powder keg; the moment when people's celebrations would shoot off into the sky like a rocket over Byram Lake, my little slice of heaven here in Michigan. A declaration -- that the tyranny of a global pandemic is over!
Read moreEurope may have just hit on a way to ease travel restrictions as the world rebounds from the pandemic. With coronavirus cases and related deaths trending downward around the globe due to increased vaccination efforts, many questions have been asked with seemingly no answer.
Read moreNew cases, hospitalizations and Covid deaths are down in the United States, things are opening up and Tom Jellicoe went to a rugby match.
Read moreWhen I think of opportunity, grit, and hardworking people, I tend to think of a lot of places. I’ll think of towns like Detroit and its blue-collar, hard-scrabble mindset. I think of Boston and the people's will hardened by the Nor'easter blowing in from the Atlantic Ocean. Both of these cities, and many more, can be characterized as ‘tough’ and ‘hardworking’ because of the people that live there, the struggles they face and how they don’t crumble while staring down the face of adversity.
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