Charlotte Latvala: Nostalgia for naivete of early days of pandemic By Charlotte Latvala “I miss the early days of the pandemic,” she said. “What?” “I barely had any schoolwork and we watched movies every night.” She sighed. “It seems like a vacation now.” Her comment hit me like a late-breaking news bulletin. Lately, I’ve been feeling more and more down about the never-ending school closures, event cancellations and lack of socializing – not to mention the people we know who’ve suffered badly from this disease. But my daughter put her finger on another emotion: A vague nostalgia for a simpler, more innocent time as the calendar moves closer to the one-year anniversary of COVID arriving.