One thing COVID-19 has changed: Our relationship with paper
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Who can forget the great toilet paper shortage of 2020? What about all of the pizza you ordered? And what did you do with all of the shipping boxes mailed to your home?
This week, "The Debrief with Major Garrett" podcast marks the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, albeit not with a year-from-hell retrospective. Instead, we decided to explore one relationship to a thing that could embody how the pandemic has changed our habits — and led us back to some old ones. That object is paper: We're using less of it at work and far more of it at home. Our screen-weary eyes long for printed books and puzzles.The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday that the U.S. food supply is still "one of the safest in the world," in the wake of a number of foodborne disease outbreaks affecting items ranging from organic carrots to deli meats to McDonald's Quarter Pounders. E. coli, listeria and other contaminants have sickened thousands of people and forced a number of recalls in recent months.
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