Brilliant writing McKay.
I was fighting every word you said. This is a load of crap. There’s some beauty amongst this chaos. It’s forces companies to innovate and push themselves beyond complacent.
Commercial transport will return. People will undoubtedly travel.
And yet, I felt the dagger through my heart when you wrote…
As the plane ascended, I pressed my head against the window and peered down at the disappearing runway. I tried to ponder the miracle of human flight, to savor this rare privilege I was experiencing. But then an unhappy thought asserted itself: How many people have touched this window today with their filthy hands? I jerked back, and squirted some hand sanitizer onto my forehead.
Well damn. Yup, that’s how I feel too.
We shall see, but what I do know is the “normal” was build on a complacent foundation, and this new era will spark many great things, professionally and personally.
