Strangeness of the day: For Americans, an in-between moment

By TED ANTHONY AP National Writer

In coming years, when they write the narrative histories of the 2020 pandemic - those paperweight-level volumes that reconstruct these strange days in painstaking and vivid detail - the past week in American life will be a particularly curious moment to unpack. It was unlike what came before, and almost certainly unlike what is still ahead.

On social media and in real life, Americans fought fervent pitched battles about getting back to their lives - when, where and under what conditions. Mostly, these battles were verbal. Sometimes, they got physical.

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