Even if you're somehow in full-on denial about the COVID-19 global pandemic, you can't deny that it has changed our lives — and for many, there's no going back to pre-pandemic times.
Life is irretrievably different. We might one day be able to put our masks in a bucket and burn them, but many of us will never be able to look at a crowded room the same way again, and countless livelihoods have been forced to shutter for good — and that's not even counting those who have contracted the virus. Whole families have been shattered and decimated, and even the survivors of the virus often face severe long-term health consequences.
It's hard to imagine how anybody's life could have been left untouched by the COVID-19 — but just think of the shock for someone waking up to the world we now live in, never having known the horror of the disease. That's happening right now for one young man in the U.K.