We can’t forget that there were some truly crazy things that went down. Like how public health officials told parents that if their small children were deemed close contacts of someone who later tested positive for the virus the kid needed to be kept in a separate room away from family for 14 days. Or how there were retirement home residents who opted for assisted suicide rather than endure more lockdowns. Absolute atrocities that should have never happened. The list goes on.
And those are just the government edicts. There’s also the broader social effects. The pressure cooker mindset that, due to the frenzied news coverage and social media tone, engulfed so many people led to tragic splits within families and among friends when perspectives on COVID diverged. Hopefully time has begun to heal those wounds.
Yes, the virus was and remains quite serious for some high-risk categories. But did we really need to have security remove the one guy who just didn’t want to wear a mask at the grocery store? Was there really a good reason to fire an employee — who was working from home anyway! — because, for whatever reason, the person didn’t want to receive a vaccine? Looking back on it now, surely many people have come around to see that a lot of what happened was overkill.
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