According to our Google searches, 2021 was about getting better
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/12/08/health/google-year-in-search-2021-wellness/index.html
Amid multiple waves of pandemic, Some European and American people are recovering daily lives as they did in 2019. They are ready to accept death rate. But, Japan hasn't yet been recovering them. The country is somehow trying to strengthen countermeasures for the virus, even though the country so far achieves zero-Covid state.
