How the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our sense of mortality
CNN
Covid-19 has created a generation with awareness of mortality -- younger, healthy people who previously did not give serious thought to our own sense of mortality. The pandemic made clear that a full and long life is not a guaranteed thing.
I spent nights like these ferociously typing poorly-crafted love notes to my toddler, who I woefully reflected was too young to remember me if I wound up another victim to this once-in-a-century plague. Before the pandemic, it crossed my mind that I might not be around to see my child grow up or get to publish my best-seller, but it was a muted pang in the back of my consciousness that I could easily bat away.
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