Our familiar habits and rituals changed in 2020—hopefully forever

For most people, this pandemic is (hopefully!) a once-in-a-lifetime event.

The human experience for all 7.5 billion-plus people on earth has unified by the coronavirus. Much of quarantine was plagued with pangs of anxiety for people across the globe. Most people’s livelihoods have been hit. Many were separated from loved ones for months on end. Dialysis and chemotherapy patients struggled as hospitals got overburdened. More than 1.6 million people have so far lost their lives to the pandemic.

However, with vaccines getting deployed in the UK and the US, the finish line to go back to “normal” seems closer than before. And amid all the bad news, people have also discovered big and small joys that they wouldn’t mind carrying into the future. From attending live concerts via social media to discovering the inner baker and from spending time with ageing parents to being able to wear pajamas all day, here are things that Quartz employees want to take with them into the post-pandemic world:

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