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Hindsight provides for lessons learned

by KERRI THORESON
| March 19, 2025 1:00 AM

While it seems a lifetime ago, the beginning days of the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020 are only five years past. My column from this week back then was hopeful that it would be short-lived, that sanity and humanity would prevail and all would be right with the world. By the next week, March 25, 2020, the governor issued a stay-at-home order for all but essential workers in Idaho.

It’s truly a blessing that we didn’t and couldn’t know how much havoc would be wreaked on this country and our communities over the next two years. The damage done to our collective mental health and relationships over the course of the next nearly two years was unimaginable.

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