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Letter: Pandemic was perfect setting for conspiracies (2)

Published 5 February 2025

From Beth Morrell, Raleigh, North Carolina, US

One thing about the passing of time during the pandemic wasn’t that the year of lockdown seemed longer or shorter than normal, but everything from before covid-19 felt like decades ago, even by 2022.

Issue no. 3529 published 8 February 2025

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