Cincinnati Magazine March 1, 2021 At the beginning of March 2020, tangible signs that our lives would soon be turned upside down were emerging. On March 11, the World Health Organization officially categorized COVID-19 a global pandemic, with around 1,000 cases in the U.S. and just shy of 120,000 worldwide. The first tri-state cases were diagnosed in Butler County on March 13. Illustration by Vidhya Nagarajan 2021, Levy Creative Management, NYC The next day wouldn’t have spectacular significance, except to mathematics fanatics and anyone looking for an excuse to eat pie. “Pi Day [3.14] is one of our biggest days of the year,” says Lou Ginocchio, owner of O Pie O in Walnut Hills and Over-the-Rhine.