Five years ago today, my office sent out an email stating that we should all work from home while this "COVID-19 thing blows over."

The idea was that we'd all ride it out for a couple of weeks and then be back to business as usual.

Every so often, they'd send emails about how they hope to have us back on X date, but clearly those dates (circled on calendar) kept getting bumped.

By the time I used my yellow highlighter to mark the last day of 2020, I gave up and here we are, five years from the start, still dealing with COVID (which hasn't magically disappeared to anyone in denial).

Try to stay safe and be well, my friends.