How Do Pandemics Change Humans and Societies? We Are Eyewitnesses to History

Documenting the pandemic's impact

For slightly more than a year, from the early springs of 2020 to 2021, there was a psychological “sword of Damocles” hanging over all of our heads, uncertain whether we or our loved ones would be alive a year later.

I remember vividly the day the legendary Bill Withers passed away at age 81. His hit songs “Lean on Me”; “Ain’t No Sunshine”; and “Friend of…