Before I applied for the post of UEG Vice President, the world seemed to be in balance. Now, we have two wars ongoing and struggle with the sequelae of the COVID-19 pandemic. The heartbreak caused by the wars cannot be understated, as well as the terrible effect on everybody in our myUEG community and the severity of the long-term impacts of the pandemic regarding our profession. 1 Long COVID is a reality which will undoubtedly affectThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.