If there was ever a sign, four years after it began, that the coronavirus pandemic was over, it was last week when I walked into my local Harris Teeter (ironically to get a covid booster) and saw that the bin of free cookies for kids had returned. It’s in the bakery now, not the front of the store, but still has that smiling dinosaur mascot.

Dig your germy hands in the cookie jar, kids… pandemic’s over.