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COVIDnesia

Serious question: Has a good majority of this country completely blocked COVID out of their memories?  I ask this, because during election season, Donald Trump and other Republican politicians kept asking, "Are you better off today than you were 4 years ago?"  When I first heard this, my immediate thought was, "Of course we're better off! Do you think we're f*cking stupid?!? We were going through the worst pandemic in a century 4 years ago!" Well, sadly, in answer to my question, we are f*cking stupid - that or we've completely blocked out the traumatic event which was COVID. The years 2020 and 2021 were quite the surreal experience. Since I doubt any of us were alive during the Spanish flu, COVID was a once-in-a-lifetime event. Perhaps that's part of it. People think this kind of thing only happens once in a century and they won't have to worry about it again, so why think about it more than is required? How can we forget, though? I remember 4 y...