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Postmortem: When the World Reopened, Why Didn’t Life Feel the Same?

BLB 14, October 2026

The unease about life after 2020 has a research-backed core. The evidence points not to one mysterious cause, but to lasting shifts in time perception and social connection—alongside real differences in how people recovered. A post by Josh Rincon describes a disquiet many readers recognize: everything reopened, people returned to…