@pot8um Uh we are back to the old normal, we went to school/work sick because you needed money to buy things like food and pay rent, and you didn't get paid for being sick, or you got points or just straight fired...

@pot8um isn’t that the old normal

@Harrowhark12 Americans have a fetish for suffering

@pot8um I’ve never been more sad that I was right about the future.

@pot8um It's amazing how even doing something that would unquestionably benefit society (like paying to upgrade every indoor commercial AC system to HEPA; not just for virus but smoke/smog/etc) would freak out a large portion of the population because COMMUNISM!!!

@pot8um Canada tried for a bit, then decided that the American way was somehow a better way to go. 🙁

@pot8um They couldn’t make money in the short-term that way sooo 🤷🏻‍♀️ no go

@pot8um They can't have us figuring out that it's possible for us all to live comfortable lives without toiling in the trenches for their benefit.

@pot8um Even if they had not done that, & pushed masking, air filtration, testing, & contact tracing, we would be so much further ahead. It just feels like they gave up.

@pot8um we'd actually be in a state of economic collapse, with less developed vaccines and more overall infection. not to mention the collective trauma of such a hardcore program. China was adamant about doing zero-COVID and even they had to face reality.

@pot8um Right instead of giving billions and billions to the CEO’s to ‘keep’ them from bankruptcy🙄🤬

@pot8um yeah, I've been saying this for four years haha

@pot8um @u_keik I just went to Europe for 2 weeks of glorious mask free living & returned 100% well. Spent 3 days in NYC fully masked indoors & on transit, got Covid for the 1st time. #covidisnotover #novidnomore

@pot8um I'm furious because I KNOW this could've been over (or at least managed) by 2021 if we'd been allowed to STAY HOME for a few months but noooo, we all decided we needed to go Back To Normal(TM) like four months after the pandemic was announced and like... 😡🤬

@pot8um As an "essential worker" I do NOT fathom why tf people didn't / refused to stay indoors when given the chance

@pot8um @ineffablyunreal Another kick on the shins is that you know it's going to happen again and they still have no plan to do anything different.

@pot8um If they had maintained the ppe stockpile. If they had coherent and consistent public messaging. If the public wasn’t 🦇💩. *sigh* After NEEDING to understand WHY we did what we did I realized that no matter how simple the solution we were always doomed. Ppl won’t cooperate!

@pot8um @TheyAreThandrie But after about 2 months people got really mad they couldn’t eat at Olive Garden so here we are.

@pot8um 1 quarter loss in profits was too much to ask. That is the truth. Our futures were sacrificed for the 2nd quarter profits of 2020. Capitalism must have growth of capital.