In the waning days of 2020, as a pandemic ravages New England, Evan Smith has a notion that buoys him.
It contrasts sharply with the nightmarish challenges that tested him this year when he says disease-driven economic conditions forced him to cut staff at his travel-focused marketing firm, Discover Newport.
In Smith’s vision, it’s mid to late summer 2021. By then, vaccines have protected huge segments of the population from the virus that causes COVID-19.
People all over the Northeast are traveling, dining out and breathing more freely.
“We will start to feel freedom of mobility,” Smith says. “That is going to be a euphoric, wonderful thing for a lot of people.”