Interview: Feeling Anxious Over Pandemic Restrictions Loosening? Here Are Some Suggestions To Help Cope. Listen Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. A large mask is put on a bear statue at a gift shop during the Knott's Taste of Boysenberry Festival at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park, Calif., Tuesday, March 30, 2021. AP Photo/Jae C. Hong As the pandemic starts to tentatively slow down in the United States, many people are looking forward to the reopening of businesses, offices, concert halls and more. But not everyone is ready or willing to move back into a society that may have not previously met their needs when things were “business as usual.”