Let's take a break.

I'm Sean Ramos from The Team and I are back from a little break.

Some of us traveled places in the United States over our little break.

We were not alone.

Something like tens of millions of Americans traveled over the 4th of July holiday weekend,

setting all sorts of pandemic travel records.

This past weekend some British guy took it even further, flying from New Mexico into

space and back.

People are moving up and moving on, but it's a strange phenomenon because for so many

across the planet, the pandemic is still very much the reality.

Today on the show, we're bringing you postcards from our pandemic purgatory.

Our first is from Tiffany Parks and American living in Rome who you've actually heard

on the show before.

So the first time I was on this podcast was I believe in March of 2020 in this street.

You need to stay in your homes and it's hard to feel like you don't have any freedom of

movement.

When Italy was really the first Western country to be severely hit by the pandemic, it felt

like the whole world was looking at Italy to figure out what they should do.

Since that time, we went through about two months of severe lockdown.

It was a legally enforced lockdown and we could not leave the 200 meter radius around our

homes, which is basically you could go around the block.

The teenager, Bukhaya, Sakawa, one of the youngest players ever to play the European championship.

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