Time flies. It’s been five years since one of the (many) big lies about the pandemic.
We had to fumigate the house for termites, and decided to take the cats up to Cambria for a couple days (their first, and so far, only road trip, which they probably think was some kind of weird dream), so we wouldn’t have to board them. We were supposed to meet some friends from Berkeley, but the lock down had just begun in the Bay Area, and they decided not to go. I wouldn’t say that the town was a ghost town, but it was decidedly weird. When we got back to LA, things just started rapidly deteriorating with all the lunacy from there.
[Update a few minutes later]
Jennifer Sey: “The five-year anniversary of the lockdowns is here, and I’m angry.”
So am I. So should we all be. And Deborah Birx (among many others) has never been held accountable for her (her word) “subterfuge.“
I didn’t need food, because normal stocking of the pantry means I had enough food to last a couple months, but I like to observe how people act and went shopping the night before they shut our state down. It was a bit of a madhouse and all the meat and produce was gone along with the staples like flour and sugar.
It was like shopping for presents at Christmas but no one was wearing nicer casual clothes and weren’t jolly even a bit.
The strange thing was that the bacon bin was full.
We went from COVID is no worse than the flu, so doing anything about it is a racist overreaction, to COVID is worse than the plague and we are all going to die and back to COVID is just the flu. Truth is it isn’t any of those things. It was/is neither as dangerous as some claimed nor as harmless as others claimed.
It is a manmade virus that impacts people differently. There isn’t a universal experience to getting COVID. For one person they are ok in a few hours and for others weeks but everyone thinks their experience is the same for others. Even now, I don’t think we have a good understanding of the dangers COVID poses or the damages from efforts to fight it.
We had people who wanted to force people to wear masks even when alone (I recently had to mask up at the dr office) to people so irate that they had to wear a mask for five minutes that they would ruin friendships over it. I’ve always said that COVID was a character test and very few people passed it. It was a very disappointing time to be an American.