First, it was my plans vs. 2020 followed by the toilet paper hoarding memes, and jokes about learning to live life via Zoom, confronting anti-maskers, vaxers, and whatnot, but the mess felt like escalating. Fast forward to today, and there’s a global birthday in town. The pandemic has turned one. Like a restless baby, it’s been keeping us awake at night, pushing our sanity to the brink, making us question whether the world as we knew it before is even possible anymore. Except what's at stake is not your prenatal late nights fueled with pinot and carelessness, but our jobs, travels, and friendships.