It has been over a year since the first COVID-19 case, which occurred in China on November 17th last year. For Canada, there is still more than a month to go until the anniversary of the first case come around, which was on the 25th of January. British Columbia’s first case happened shortly after on the 28th.
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It is a wonder how the world had a complete redesign of how it works in pretty much the span of a year. And to those who were hoping that COVID-19 would have gone away before the summer hit, it still does not seem to have an end in sight.
British Columbia went into lockdown almost nine months ago on March 5th, 2020. The restrictions have since been loosened and tightened over the following months. Cases rose steadily for a while, occasionally flattening and dropping in May but picked back up again over the months of July and August. And in September when school began again, there was a second wave that has still been rising steadily until now.
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Schools in the greater Vancouver area have had some effect on that rising number. Class sizes have been reduced but high school is still a bunch of kids in a room together. While there have been shifts to online learning, not every educational facility has made the shift. It is strange when you think about it, how everything shut down when there were not nearly as many cases as there were when everything reopened. But then again, masks and social distancing have been put to use everywhere.
Now that COVID has actually settled in as part of everyday life, it is hard to imagine how the world will react when it eventually dies out. A vaccine is one the way, but it might still be years until the world goes back to the way it was, if ever.