sadams@newsandsentinel.com
After covering the 60-day legislative session, I almost always need the week after to recover, decompress and catch up on things.
For example, I feel like I missed the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus in the state. I didn’t. I did write about it even while covering the session, but I feel like I didn’t really stop to reflect.
I’ll never forget when my editor the week after the 2020 legislative session asked me to talk to the Department of Health and Human Resources about this coronavirus thing. I rolled my eyes.
You see, I had lived through the SARS, bird flu and swine flu scares. I had even participated in state pandemic tabletop exercises nearly 15 years ago when I worked in radio. It’s not that I didn’t think a pandemic could happen, but I just didn’t think COVID-19 would rise to that level.