On Hope, Waiting, and Getting Yourself Through the Pandemic’s Final Stretch

Our collective numbness is starting to thaw. Here’s how we can better cope.

Illustration by Randi Pace for The Bold Italic

We’ve spent nearly a year waiting for the pandemic to end. Waiting for transmission rates to go down, to be less anxious, to see family, to travel, to eat in a restaurant, to stop sanitizing every five minutes…