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A few days ago, a regular from my workout class walked in wearing flip flops. She slipped them off and began setting up for BodyPump completely barefoot! I pulled her aside. She explained that her doctor had removed a cancerous lesion from her foot that morning, and shoes hurt too much. Before I could respond, her friend spoke up with an offhanded chuckle. “I just had one taken off my arm too. We are twinning now!” They high fived, giggling as if it were nothing! I stood there frozen, watching them laugh together with personalities that no longer felt their own. Over the past few years, I have witnessed every wave of this. Clients power through classes, then quietly share sudden health bombs in between. Health stories that once were rare are now brushed off with a shrug, as if this is just life. But it is not normal. It has never been normal. Since 2020, for those who have survived every Covid wave thus far, something essential in our very foundations has been irrevocably altered. All of this happened to us unconsciously, subliminally, and without our true consent. We are not who we once were. Our behavioral and social patterns, natural instincts, tissues, cells, and very essence now carry an unspoken, permanent mark. Humanity itself feels permanently altered, cell by cell and instinct by instinct, into something no longer fully human. This may be the most pivotal transformation in human history, and we are all just unconsciously accepting it with no resistance.