It’s been six years since COVID turned the world upside down. For a while there, it felt like common sense disappeared overnight. Grocery stores had traffic arrows, people were wiping down bananas, and toilet paper suddenly became the most valuable commodity in the world.

In this episode of Remember When Radio, we take a trip back to those strange early days of March 2020 — from the great toilet paper shortage, to masks, to lockdowns, and all the bizarre rules that seemed to appear overnight.

But beyond the absurdity, there’s also a bigger reflection: those years divided people in ways many of us had never experienced before. Friendships strained or fell apart, families fell out, and society lost so much of the connection that once held us together.

Maybe it’s time to rebuild some of that.

Because if we learned anything from 2020… it’s that we’re better off when we have each other.