From disorientation to lockdowns to recovery: my year reporting on COVID

We all can’t but help vividly remember the disorientation of the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. The creeping feeling that this was something that would be with us for a long time very quickly turned into the jarring realization that this was going to change everything.

Metcalfe Street is empty in downtown Ottawa on Jan. 14, 2021, as the city was subject to a second province-wide lockdown in an ongoing effort to combat the growing spread of COVID-19. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MIKE LAPOINTE

March 22, 2021

Following the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve noticed more and more folks on social media asking and answering this question: ‘on what day did the pandemic really and truly start for you’? For me, it was March 16, 2020, when I checked into a hotel just off Elgin Street for the fi...

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