Yesterday 2019 -

That yesterday feels like a parallel universe now — close enough to touch, yet sealed behind glass. We didn’t know we were living the last days of a world without viral math, without risk calculators for a coffee run. We thought 2019 was just… another year. Slightly exhausting, slightly hopeful.

Now, looking into that yesterday feels like watching home movies of a house before the fire. We see ourselves hugging strangers at concerts, touching elevator buttons without a second thought, coughing in public without a moral panic. yesterday 2019

Social media hummed with memes about awkward Thanksgiving dinners, not case counts. The word “lockdown” meant prison drills. “Social distancing” wasn’t a phrase. No one had uttered “Pfizer” or “Moderna” in daily conversation. That yesterday feels like a parallel universe now