Sarah Smalls is tiptoeing back into her old routine, now that she is fully vaccinated against Covid-19.

Smalls, who is 74 years old and lives in Lorton, Va., isn’t seeking to merely unfreeze and restart her pre-pandemic life.

Smalls says the person who went into the pandemic isn’t the same person coming out.

During the pandemic, she left her staff job to do consulting for the group, a change she said she hadn’t expected to make for several more years.

Smalls says.