COVID 1-year anniversary: Pandemic like a year without hugs
Updated Mar 15, 2021;
For some people, it was the year with no hugs.
For some, it was a year without church.
For others, it was the year they lost a loved one to a disease they’d never heard of before 2020.
“I miss just getting out and seeing people and going to church,” said retired nurse and Red Cross volunteer Annie Kynard-Hackworth, whose husband died of COVID-19.
“I need to hug people and actually be around them,” she said.
For others, it was the year they lost a job, or their business went under, or they had to scrape by for months with little or no income.