COVID was seriously the worst thing to happen to this country, and not just from a medical perspective. It gave all these companies carte blanche to turn evil by just doing whatever the fuck they wanted, mostly anti-consumer related decisions, free of the consequences. It destroyed people mentally in ways that they can't even recover from: Depression, Anxiety, etc... keeping them indoors and criticizing them for not immediately taking the jab, pretty much ostracizing them from the rest of society as if to say there was something wrong with them when the reality is that everyone else around them was fucking crazy. I can only imagine how fucked up kids/teens became because of it.
I honestly don't get how normal people can look back at COVID and think "those were better times" when everything was opposite day on a (what felt like) infinite loop. To THIS VERY DAY you still have old fucks and straight-up psychopaths wearing masks in public places.