It’s been exactly one year since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a global pandemic.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has declared today a National Day of Observance in the deadly health crisis and will deliver a reflective statement in the Commons this morning as the world mourns 2.5-million COVID deaths — including more than 22-thousand Canadian lives lost.
University of British Columbia psychology professor Peter Graf says we tend to remember the beginning of big events in our lives, and the pandemic has certainly been a seismic shift for everyone.
Memory experts say the onset of the pandemic is marked in each of our minds by personal revelations that ruptured our sense of time into “before” and “after.”