One year ago Tuesday, the sun rose, people were out and about, but because of the coronavirus –then still called the “novel coronavirus” — the Bay Area was on the cusp of the first stay-at-home order in the nation. Public health officers from 6 counties and the City of Berkeley held a press conference, telling millions of people they would need to stay mostly at home for three weeks to stop the spread of COVID-19, then with fewer than 300 known cases across the 7 jurisdictions. Most people probably had no idea that they were in for a year of lockdowns, restrictions, uncertainty and deaths. We reflect back on the day it started a year ago, and the seismic changes that followed.