Bay Briefing: The lost year FacebookTwitterEmail Frida Ibarra, 31, sets up her laptop for DJing inside her new apartment in Oakland.Sarahbeth Maney / Special to The Chronicle Good morning, Bay Area. It’s Friday, March 12, and a year ago, our editor in chief sent us home. Here’s what you need to know to start your day. One year on The past year has been one of incomprehensible loss. There is that number, of course: 530,000 dead and counting, difficult to comprehend on a human scale. And then there is the other loss, less comprehensible, less tangible still — the loss of a year in our lives. The pandemic affected each of us differently, but we can all mourn. Ryan Kost reports on three Bay Area residents’ lost pandemic year.