It is time for everybody to embrace their liberation from COVID-19 prison.
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n the film The Shawshank Redemption, an elderly character named Brooks gets released after 50 years in prison. Instead of celebrating his release, however, he is tentative — and shortly after experiencing the freedom of the outside world, he hangs himself.
“These walls are funny,” Morgan Freeman’s character Red explains to his fellow prisoners as they process the news. “First you hate them, then you get used to them. Enough time passes, you get so you depend on them. That’s ‘institutionalized.’”
As the vaccine has brought the promise of liberation from a year of masks, lockdowns, canceled travel plans, and forgone family …