On February 28, I stood on a crowded line waiting to pass through the Canadian border checkpoint at Montreal’s Trudeau Airport.
Ordinarily I would have balked when an agent stopped to spray sanitizer on the hands of every passing traveler. Any other day I probably would have paused with concern when I saw border agents wearing N95 masks.
I certainly should have questioned more when the Canadian customs agent asked twice if I had recently traveled to China. Any other day, I would have identified the increased precaution people were taking and sensed the palpable panic about to erupt.
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