What has the coronavirus pandemic taught us?
The importance of social distancing? Of course. How to make a facemask? Yes. That we’re all connected, that we’re responsible for each other? Absolutely.
All those things.
There’s another big lesson coming out of the COVID-19 shutdown. This one might seem trivial by comparison, but 60-plus days of sports deprivation say otherwise:
We humans really, really need our fun and games.
Sports traditionally have been described as an escape from our everyday lives, but we might have had it backward all along. The pandemic has taught us that, for many people, sports aren’t an escape.