A year ago, the Auburn community was creeping slowly back into public in limited fashion after a mandatory shutdown kept everybody homebound for everything but the essentials.Â
For more than a month, most businesses were shuttered or severely limited in operation, workers stuck at home for their suddenly-remote jobs, and the streets and public spaces eerily empty.Â
Through the shutdown and in the year since, health care workers never left their posts, working punishing hours, spending much of their time separated from their families while caring for our loved ones, standing in for patientsâ families at the bedside when death came, and celebrating the victory of sending a patient home.Â