When despite the isolation and difficulties and people being terribly ill and dying, there was this feeling of something good might come out of this great reset of society?
That feels very distant now.
No? I remember feeling scared and sad that we were doing all the wrong things and everyone was trying to use the chaos to profit, often making things much worse.
I remember that as the first months of slimey opportunists trying to get rich by hoarding toilet paper and hand sanitizer but I think it passed. I think there are, have been and will always be assholes that try to ride the wave of fucking other people over. But they did so a major exposure of their assholeness then, definitely.
Idk, I remember being frustrated with people that didn’t care or even try, but I wasn’t really scared other than that my mum might catch it because people are selfish dicks.
There were a lot of positive things happening, like breweries devoting production to making hand sanitizer at zero profit because it was the right thing to do. People coming up with clever solutions to necessary interactions and stuff like that.
Aside from the death and fear it was great. All plans canceled. Lots of distant community. Lots of processes that seemed impossible (like work from home) suddenly were easy.
Then fuckers started whining. Place started opening too early and raising infection rates. More people died.
Fuckers started selling counterfeit masks. Medical misinformation ran rampant.
As USA N95 supplies drop due to fired inspectors, and misinformation increases, this next pandemic will suck.
Edit: Even UBI seemed possible. Which is wild.
Yes, ironically I hadn’t felt so close to people in years.
It was incredible how reduction in emissions seem to instantly have an effect on the health of regions. Everything seemed to be up in the air as we adapted to find new ways of doing things in order to keep our vulnerable members safe. I really thought this was our chance to change things for the better.
Obviously the deadly virus that killed millions was tragic, but I did have a sense that things might actually get better for everyone overall.
And we all thought murder hornets were coming for us.
Man, those were the days.
Those would be killer bees, not murderer hornets. The murder hornets are Japanese. Africanized bees is the term, it’s not just a Fox News-ism.
Yep, there was a sense of people coming together in the first few weeks but it didn’t last long…
Maybe it was different at different places, but I think here it grew stronger with time though it transformed from the celebrities singing on social media and applauding nurses to general acceptance of communal hardships and everybody pulling together to get through it. I think despite the hardships and suffering there was a communal spirit that is rare nowadays.