Four years ago today, I got a call from my boss saying that we would be out of the office for a while with the majority of the country. Covid-19 had been declared a pandemic two days earlier, and states began shutting down March 15, in hopes of stemming the spread over the course of two weeks.
With presumptive cases at the paper and elsewhere, I'm sure most of us initially thought we'd be back in the office full-time within the month, but it didn't happen that way. It was a good long while before people were again working in the newsroom, and at first it was only those who'd been vaccinated and were masked.
I went in for a week to train my temporary backup before I had major surgery in 2022, but for the most part have worked remotely.
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