We’ve said this, we’ve written this: We here at Flexible Packaging are tired of covering the pandemic just as much as you’re tired of hearing about it. The problem is that its effects continue to ripple throughout world and we all continue to be impacted by those waves. Many, if not all of us, thought or hoped that we would’ve been done with anything related to the pandemic after more than a year. However, things appear to be getting worse.
At the time of this writing, variants of the illness continue to be discovered. Children and young people, who were once considered less likely than adults to contract COVID, are now among the highest rates of new cases. Michigan is averaging about the same number of new cases as it did at its previous height and has opted to maintain its restrictions with office buildings for another six months — all while people are becoming increasingly fatigued with anything having to do with the virus, like I wrote at the very beginning.