We all can’t but help vividly remember the disorientation of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The creeping feeling that this was something that would be with us for a long time very quickly turned into the jarring realization that this was going to change everything.
Metcalfe Street is empty in downtown Ottawa on Jan. 14, 2021, as the city was subject to a second province-wide lockdown in an ongoing effort to combat the growing spread of COVID-19. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
Following the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve noticed more and more folks on social media asking and answering this question: ‘on what day did the pandemic really and truly start for you’?
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Mike Lapointe joined the The Hill Times in June 2019 and covers the federal public service, deputy ministers, the Privy Council Office, public service unions, the Phoenix pay system, the machinery of government, and the Parliament Hill media. Follow - mlapointe@hilltimes.com
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