And it’s not that I’m alone or unique because I know many many people who are in similar situations to me.
David Wallace-Wells was on Marketplace podcast talking about the covid pandemic declaration anniversary and was surprisingly realistic about it, including pointing out that there were more covid deaths under Biden than Trump, despite him saying the deaths under Trump were unacceptable. And they talked about how forcing normal was bad. And how people became more individualistic and caustic and selfish. But then he made it sound like everyone got selfish. And then he started saying the schools shouldn’t have been closed so long. But then he said 4 times as many kids die from covid since they reopened schools than in the first 1-1/2 years of the pandemic. Ok so first off schools weren’t closed for 1-1/2 years. This is pandemic lockdown revisionist history. He’s equating masks in schools as the same as school closure. Schools weren’t closed. I remember seeing the school buses in my neighborhood full of kids with masks on looking out the windows in 2020-2021 school year. But why would you think they should’ve gone back to normal in schools earlier if you know more kids died after that? That sounds like he’s almost saying that more kids ought to have died! And then he made the point that kids got the vaccines later so they were safer later, but um, most kids were not vaccinated for covid, ever, and now only about 12% are up to date on covid vaccination. He also described eugenics, that people came to embrace eugenics, but without actually mentioning the actual word eugenics. The one host had mentioned it more specifically, in saying that she heard on some podcast that people have become more cruel and the pandemic taught people to see others as disposable. But still didn’t mention eugenics either. I think leadership gave the signals over and over again that it was appropriate to treat others as disposable, especially people “with underlying conditions” – not just the Great Barrington Declaration people and Trump’s guy Scott Atlas, but it continued with Biden’s CDC director Rochelle Walensky. And it’s continued ever since, culminating in the ultimate open eugenicists now making public health decisions. We’ve fully embraced the outlook of the guy early on had about the old people just being sacrificed to the economy. On the podcast when they talked about the economy, and the host asks if the pandemic explains why the economy looked great but people didn’t feel it. And they completely ignored the fact that many of us were forced into retirement, were forced out of high-exposure jobs, or were forced out of work because of long covid disability or other covid complications, or just losing jobs because of needing more sick time than allowed when forced into getting covid over and over again. He was actually talking about people getting into crypto, meme stocks, sports gambling, and day trading with their stimulus checks and getting all risky. Something’s off about that take for me. I do think people went into those things, but I think it was more out of desperation and getting duped by online profiteering marketing probably.