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ties, and there is a substantial amount of repercussions to respond to as time progresses.The year 2021 isn’t going to bring normalcy from pre-COVID life. We must hear this fact, process it, accept it, and adapt. Our definition of “normal” evolves. 2020 happened to bring a quick, abrupt evolution.Normal is defined as “conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.”<ul><li>Normal is wearing a mask in public</li><li>Normal is online education</li><li>Normal is planning events around COVID’s precautions</li><li>Normal is physical distancing</li><li>Normal is taking extra precautions to protect yourself from a virus</li><li>Normal is hand sanitizer in public</li><li>Normal is Zoom meetings</li></ul>2020 has been a roller coaster thus far, and the ride doesn’t stop at the end of December. COVID-19 has uncovered weaknesses in the U.S. healthcare system and our preparedness for a pandemic. Humanity must continue to identify weaknesses such as these to grow accordingly for better outcomes instead of hoping the weaknesses will dissolve upon a new year.We can’t sit around and “wait for things to get back to normal” without changing ourselves because life’s normal is perpetually evolving. Around the world, epidemiologists have constructed short- and long-term projections for COVID preparation and mitigation. The forecasts vary, but modelers agree on the fact that COVID-19 is here to stay.With that evidence, it is safe to say that life will not be like it was before — ever.I don’t say express this in all doom and gloom. We can still make amazing lives for ourselves with the hand deal

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t to us. I say this from a positive, imaginative, but realistic light. We just cannot live in denial of what our normal is right now. We should consider thinking and talking realistically about the virus and its lugged reality.The future will bring solutions to our current issues. Still, it is not beneficial for anyone to adopt a falsely hopeful mindset that fast-forwarding one year will bring us back to the normal of early 2020. The world will not be like “it used to,” and that is okay. We need to embrace change and transform it into innovation fully.Change is inevitable, and change is necessary. Even the culture and customs that are normal today will eventually fade away into something better, something new.Live your life in our current “normal,” even with the uncertainty COVID-19 brings. Don’t want until 2021 for circumstances to miraculously change our recent events. Personally, harness time to make today’s situation an opportunity to adapt yet grow with the ever-changing times.As COVID-19 has proven, anything is possible. Create your new normal you desire with the current circumstances while adapting to COVID’s aftermath.“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard ShawOur current normal requires behavioral change compliance from all of us to reduce the spread of COVID-19. There is still time left this year to live the best life possible while loving and caring for yourself and everyone else.Don’t wait until 2021. Live now.COVID-19 does not care about your calendar.</article></body>

Why You Should Stop Waiting for 2021

COVID-19 doesn’t have a calendar.

“I can’t wait until next year when things hopefully go back to normal.”

I have heard this phrase countless times this year of 2020. I have listened to people not only speak this phrase but genuinely believe it, like a miracle saving us from COVID-19’s existence will magically appear when the hand strikes midnight on January 1, 2021.

This thinking is far from accurate, with a hint of denial.

Whether we welcome it or not, the world has changed in many ways and will perpetually continue. 2020 has been chock-full of unanticipated environmental and social events, from the COVID-19 pandemic, California’s wildfires, Dow Jones Industrial Average plunging to its largest one-point decline, protests from the killing of George Floyd — the extensive list extends much further.

The aftermath of aforementioned events resulted in vast scale changes in everyday life and culture. These changes are not temporary, but here to stay for an uncertainly long time.

Simply put, there is no “going back to normal.”

The New Normal

COVID-19 is one of the few events in history that has touched the entire world. COVID-19 destroyed entire communities, and there is a substantial amount of repercussions to respond to as time progresses.

The year 2021 isn’t going to bring normalcy from pre-COVID life. We must hear this fact, process it, accept it, and adapt. Our definition of “normal” evolves. 2020 happened to bring a quick, abrupt evolution.

Normal is defined as “conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.”

Normal is wearing a mask in public
Normal is online education
Normal is planning events around COVID’s precautions
Normal is physical distancing
Normal is taking extra precautions to protect yourself from a virus
Normal is hand sanitizer in public
Normal is Zoom meetings

2020 has been a roller coaster thus far, and the ride doesn’t stop at the end of December. COVID-19 has uncovered weaknesses in the U.S. healthcare system and our preparedness for a pandemic. Humanity must continue to identify weaknesses such as these to grow accordingly for better outcomes instead of hoping the weaknesses will dissolve upon a new year.

We can’t sit around and “wait for things to get back to normal” without changing ourselves because life’s normal is perpetually evolving. Around the world, epidemiologists have constructed short- and long-term projections for COVID preparation and mitigation. The forecasts vary, but modelers agree on the fact that COVID-19 is here to stay.

With that evidence, it is safe to say that life will not be like it was before — ever.

I don’t say express this in all doom and gloom. We can still make amazing lives for ourselves with the hand dealt to us. I say this from a positive, imaginative, but realistic light. We just cannot live in denial of what our normal is right now. We should consider thinking and talking realistically about the virus and its lugged reality.

The future will bring solutions to our current issues. Still, it is not beneficial for anyone to adopt a falsely hopeful mindset that fast-forwarding one year will bring us back to the normal of early 2020. The world will not be like “it used to,” and that is okay. We need to embrace change and transform it into innovation fully.

Change is inevitable, and change is necessary. Even the culture and customs that are normal today will eventually fade away into something better, something new.

Live your life in our current “normal,” even with the uncertainty COVID-19 brings. Don’t want until 2021 for circumstances to miraculously change our recent events. Personally, harness time to make today’s situation an opportunity to adapt yet grow with the ever-changing times.

As COVID-19 has proven, anything is possible. Create your new normal you desire with the current circumstances while adapting to COVID’s aftermath.

“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard Shaw

Our current normal requires behavioral change compliance from all of us to reduce the spread of COVID-19. There is still time left this year to live the best life possible while loving and caring for yourself and everyone else.

Don’t wait until 2021. Live now.

COVID-19 does not care about your calendar.