My nights have probably been like everyone else's for the past 15 weeks. You know the drill: sit in front of the television and aimlessly scroll through the guide before settling on some old-school show or sports game. I plowed through Netflix for a while thanks to Tiger King before deciding to just go to bed two hours earlier than normal.
It was a doldrums brought on by the COVID-19 health crisis. In Massachusetts, the pandemic's transformation quickly established itself as an early-warning hotspot for the rest of the country. Our stay-at-home order quickly closed our society out of sheer necessity, and March rolled into April and May with a traumatic blow as those of us who live here forced adjustment into a frighteningly new way of life.