This is Planet Money from NPR.

I remember the last normal day I had, March 12, 2020.

And I remember it so vividly because I spent most of it in a studio recording this light

hearted episode with Sarah Gonzalez about the strange new coronavirus and how everyone

was dealing with it.

We never played the episode, but here's just a taste from four months ago.

Like not touching your face.

Turns out it's impossible to do.

Or finding sanitizer or just going to work with your colleagues or public transportation.

Or even cleaning your hands properly.

Most of us have been doing it wrong.

You have never heard this episode because by the time we finished recording it, by the

end of the day even, it seemed like everything had changed.

Cities shut down, the stock market plunged, Tom Hanks announced that he had the virus.

The episode felt out of date by the time we left the studio and we just put it on a shelf

and forgot about it.

But I think about that episode a lot because at the very end, Sarah and I were talking about

hand sanitizer and I did something that I haven't done since.

Maybe for the last time in my life, I feel confident to do a high five.

Oh, no.

The last high five.

I don't know.

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