H ow many times in the past few years have you heard, or used, the expression “The pandemic broke our brains”? Particularly in less densely populated parts of America, plenty of government officials and citizens still hold a grudge over the way businesses and schools were temporarily shut down. In some places, mask-wearing is still treated as a sign of wimpiness. Parents blame their kids’ social awkwardness or inability to keep up in school on the “lost” years of education over Zoom. Forget