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We were talking at breakfast one morning in November 2020, and Mary John was ranting about the ridiculousness of the pandemic and it burgeoning so out of control that nothing else was part of our vernacular. We pondered how incredible this would have seemed to us just nine months earlier. We started wondering if even more outlandish scenarios would have seen more or less plausible—sudden thermonuclear war and insidious interplanetary space invaders were our other two bizarre proposals. We were not entirely sure if the pandemic ranked as a clearer and more predictable calamity than the other two. Perhaps that is the tragedy and paradox of COVID-19—few of us saw it coming in its full fury and relentless persistence. We hope and expect that science communication will be a beacon of light to see us through this pandemic.