AP Photo/Lynne Sladky On the one-year anniversary of school shutdowns from Philadelphia to Portland, it is obvious that America has changed in many ways. The way we handshake – if we shake hands – has changed from embraces to elbow and fist bumps. The commodities we coveted changed at one point, as spring outfits and St. Patrick’s Day accessories were cast aside for toilet paper and Lysol spray. Government changed a lot. We saw the fulfillment of the infamous quote: “A government big enough to give you everything you want, is a government big enough to take away everything that you have.” That was because just as some things changed because we had to shift with the times, others tried to needlessly shift because of the times.