I submit that for a lot of people it wasn't really that bad. Time at home with family, no commute, cleaner air, a better sense of community working together, universal basic income. Yes, schooling was a shit show, and for plenty of people it was a horror show for all the reasons we know it was.
Tressie McMillan CottomI’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.