Another unexpected pandemic side effect, this one involving the Girl Scouts

The coronavirus pandemic has impacted our daily lives in so many overt ways, from masking and social distancing requirements in public to even things far afield from the virus itself. Like WarnerMedia, for example, deciding to simultaneously release its entire 2021 movie slate on HBO Max the same day the individual movies arrive in theaters, a move in response to people being still skittish about returning to theaters, especially with the Delta variant of the coronavirus now rampaging across the country.

And there's still plenty more second- and third-order effects of the pandemic you can point to, like car insurance companies refunding a portion of people's monthly premiums -- since, it stands to reason, it's not fair to keep charging people the same rate when they're mostly stuck at home, right? Meanwhile, the Girl Scouts are also reporting yet another unexpected coronavirus side effect: The organization is stuck with millions of boxes of unsold Girl Scout cookies on its hands, for the obvious reason that the pandemic has hurt the tradition of selling them in person, door-to-door.