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I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve mentioned this before, or even posted about it before, but I really do miss the pandemic.\u00a0 This thought usually crosses my mind whenever I\u2019m in a scenario that wouldn\u2019t have existed during the pandemic, like being stuck in traffic on my commute to the office, or in this most recent episode, whenever an illness permeates its way into my house and waylays fucking everyone, leading to several miserable days for all.<\/span><\/p>\n A stomach bug of some sort, was picked up by both #2 and I concurrently, most likely at a birthday party that only we went to on Monday; Tuesday was the customary incubation day for said bug, and by Wednesday in the AM hours, shit hit the fan and we were both victims of near-identical symptoms, all of them unpleasant.\u00a0 It should also be noted that Wednesday was #1\u2019s birthday, which meant I literally spent the entirety of my own child\u2019s birthday in bed and basically incapable of functioning.<\/span><\/p>\n Thankfully, #1 was not ill on her birthday, but what I feared most came to fruition the night prior, which led to this avalanche of thoughts and emotions manifesting into a salt-filled, nihilistic sounding post about how I thought the world was a vastly superior place when a killer pandemic was ravaging through it.\u00a0 But Thursday was apparently the incubation day for #1, and by the AM hours, shit hits the fan, and then it\u2019s me, of course, at like 70% myself, as the one staying up until 4:30 in the morning catching her vomiting every single half hour while the bug takes its turn with her.<\/span><\/p>\n Shit like this, would never have occurred during the pandemic.\u00a0 The common cold didn\u2019t happen at all, during the pandemic.\u00a0 It was one of the most glorious years in human existence, 2020 was, where there wasn\u2019t even a single day over the span of a 365-day span except for one exception which I won\u2019t delve into, where anyone in my house was sick.\u00a0 No questionable mornings where anyone woke up with a tinge in the sinuses, and requiring some preventative care, no sniffles after going out somewhere, not a single cold, much less the flu, any sinus infections or stomach bugs like the one ravaging my house right now.<\/span><\/p>\n No god damn sicknesses whatsoever, and it was marvelous.\u00a0 But in retrospect, there\u2019s no way that would have been allowed to continue, because that would have basically killed the medical and pharmaceutical industries, and can\u2019t possibly have healthy populations when there\u2019s profits to be made for white folks.<\/span><\/p>\n But in addition to the sheer lack of sicknesses rewarded to the intelligent who exorcised caution, it was a world where nobody had to commute into offices, remote work was the norm and championed and applauded at the adaptability and fluidity of the workforce, and not politicized and weaponized as it\u2019s been today.<\/span><\/p>\n And speaking of politics, it\u2019s the then-administration\u2019s sheer idiocy behind pandemic response that basically united a country to boot out the orange clown from his first dictatorship, and for a brief moment in time, it genuinely felt like the United States were back to becoming America again instead of being shitty \u2018Murica.<\/span><\/p>\n Naturally, no good thing is truly ever allowed to last, and when the dust settles, Americans always falls back into their self-destructive patterns, and here we are back to dictatorship #2, which has somehow managed to feel even more terrifying than the first one.<\/span><\/p>\n At this point, I genuinely wouldn\u2019t mind if some fucking savages at a Chinese wet market started trying to eat some moar bats or some possums or some other feral wild animal, and try to get COVID-29 started up to try and correct the world all over again.\u00a0 I know many probably think that the parties involved in the original COVID-19 bat-eating scenario are a bunch of hindsight murderers, but frankly I see them as quite the contrary, and wouldn\u2019t mind if that shit fired itself up again, if it would bring us back to the utopia that 2020 really turned out to be in retrospect.<\/span><\/p>\n I\u2019m tired of commuting to the office, I\u2019m sick of stupid fucks who go out while sick with no regard for the people around them, and I\u2019m sick to fucking death of those people passing those illnesses onto my families and allowing them into my home.\u00a0 I know COVID-19 took a lot of people out, but I\u2019m having a real hard time, especially as time goes on, at thinking their negatives actually outweigh all the positives that emerged from the time.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I\u2019m sure I\u2019ve mentioned this before, or even posted about it before, but I really do miss the pandemic.\u00a0 This thought usually crosses my mind whenever I\u2019m in a scenario that wouldn\u2019t have existed during the pandemic, like being stuck in traffic on my commute to the office, or in this most recent episode, whenever … Continue reading I miss the pandemic, for 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