Life Became Very Blurry

In March 2020, the arrival of the SARS-CoV-2 virus prompted Vermont state officials to order a two-week lockdown to attempt to slow the spread of the illness. It was the start of a years-long response to the global Covid-19 pandemic that upended the world. Vermont’s response to the pandemic was widely recognized, and realizing the historic significance of the outbreak, the Vermont Historical Society launched a project to document its impact. By collecting more than a hundred oral histories from state officials, doctors, and citizens, the project captured the consequences and influence the pandemic had on the Green Mountain State. Life Became Very Blurry: An Oral History of Covid-19 in Vermont builds on that project. Edited by bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Garrett M. Graff, it compiles those oral histories into a comprehensive narrative of the pandemic in Vermont from the first lockdowns in March 2020 through the tumultuous years that followed.