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The sky, mostly open and noiseless, without drones.
Remember how quiet it was outside after 9/11? And the first time you saw a plane after that?
Do people in cities have planes circling them 24/7 or something? I see like a few planes every month maybe and I live not far from a city with an international airport.
I live within 20 miles of a big airport, a smaller commercial airport, and a small (mostly private and corporate) airport. We used to live in line with the runway of the small airport and I insisted to my husband that the lights were dimming every time a plane went over. It was just a shadow. Daily you don't really notice it unless you're doing something outside that's quiet, but when it was gone, it was shocking how much we noticed the absence.
I think this was common to any era before though and I took the OP as something unique to this era. I mean we still have some nature and oxygen levels are decent to.