A significant life lesson learned from COVID-19 is the ability to pivot and see relationships that are not obvious. I believe the pandemic and the George Floyd movement are so intertwined.

When the pandemic initially hit, we viewed COVID-19 as a minor flu, and as time passed, we learned to respect its speed and devastation. We believed that when the crisis was over or subsided, there would be a new norm. We could not have imagined several months later the number of people who would fall victim to the virus, the tragic lives lost, and the economic devastation. We could not have imagined how the virus would restrict our movement and hide our identities.

I could conceptually repeat most of what I have written about COVID-19 and apply it to the George Floyd movement. In a broad sense, the similarities are: both cause death and destruction; few will benefit and the masses will suffer; the virus and movement will divide us almost to the point of being unrecognizable. They have so much in common.

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