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April of 2020 was a god awful time.
Strongly disagree.
It was the perfect excuse to do nothing but sit at home and smoke weed all day. And on the rare occasion when I did have to go out, the roads were clear and the skies were clean.
Lockdown was the best time of my life. I am beyond upset that extroverts had to ruin it for everyone by constantly whining until government officials around the world caved and ended lockdown early, all because those losers couldn't go a mere three months without talking to someone. Their selfishness got people killed, for fucks sake. Extroverts disgust me.
I'm a social creature and was very stressed. I missed people. There was a division in my social circles where people excluded those who didn't think like they did as far precautions went. It sucked. I was a teacher at the time and off for 5 months straight with pay. I still hated it.
Lock down had its ups and downs for me, but I still have some sort of hate/PTSD from all the evil shit that came out. Ever heard the phrase, "the banality of evil"? I found out hard and fast just how many of my countrymen were banal. And I cheered every denier and anti-vaxxer choking to death on their own goddamned lungs. And BTW, they killed my mother.
See this is what I'm talking about. Sorry about your moms. I lost my dad as well. But he was an antivaxxer, a Trump supporter, and annoyingly narcissistic, so he got what he deserved.
(Still miss him though. He was the only person who understood me, despite our opposing political beliefs. Not even my mom gets me.)
I'd never been so fucking scared. Finest woman I had ever dated, looked like she was going to dump me. Finest job I had ever had, looked like I was going to be laid off. Lost the girl a month later, kept the job for a few more years. Fuck me was I sweating, most literally.
Oh, and there was the whole "everyone dying, Spanish Flu in my lifetime" thing. And the social isolation and 1,000 other weird things that stemmed from that.
Know what? That may have been the most stressful month in my 50-years (at the time).