We’re still climbing back from the losses of the pandemic

The reverberations from the COVID-19 pandemic continue to echo through our world, in ways great and small, obvious and obscure. The news this week that nearly a third of the schools in Frederick County received fewer stars in recent state ratings than they received before the pandemic was one more reminder that we as a community and as a nation will be dealing with the aftereffects of the pandemic for a long, long time.