To capture this moment of adaptation, we contacted 200 New York Times readers who had sent us photographs of their pandemic lives at the end of 2020 and asked them to share a new photo reflecting what normal means two years later.
Nearly the same share, 42 percent, said the pandemic had changed their lives in lasting and significant ways.
Just 12 percent said the pandemic never changed much: “I didn’t give up anything,” one respondent said.
What is one thing about your life that the pandemic has changed in a lasting way?
Together, the photos collected below capture a kind of then-and-now of pandemic times, when many are still figuring out what comes next.