One thing COVID-19 has changed: Our relationship with paper
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Who can forget the great toilet paper shortage of 2020? What about all of the pizza you ordered? And what did you do with all of the shipping boxes mailed to your home?
This week, "The Debrief with Major Garrett" podcast marks the one-year anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic lockdown, albeit not with a year-from-hell retrospective. Instead, we decided to explore one relationship to a thing that could embody how the pandemic has changed our habits — and led us back to some old ones. That object is paper: We're using less of it at work and far more of it at home. Our screen-weary eyes long for printed books and puzzles.Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.