By Ebony Flake ·Updated July 18, 2024
In the disorienting early months of the pandemic, when the world was merely trying to stay afloat and survive—and not everyone ultimately did. When grocery store visits were socially distanced, and the pace of life slowed down, unable to process our anxieties in real-time, we fixated oddly on the things we could control—hoarding toilet paper and such. What began as survival mode against the immediate
