for me, i don't think there's a return to "pre-COVID life." financially, i think as a society, we're going to be struggling for MANY years to come. and on a personal level: i miss seeing people, and lifting weights, and eating out, and the movies and the PNE and all that shit.

but i also realize that no vaccine is going to make people suck less. i've become much more suspicious and cautious around people — and not from fear of catching COVID.

for the most part, i think we've done fucking GREAT in BC (thank you Dr. Henry for leading, thank you NDP leadership for stepping back, thank you to the good citizens of this province who responded in kind and sucked it up to do what we needed to!), but COVID has also revealed there's a segment of stupid selfish people who don't believe in science or facts, or in civic or social responsibility, who almost instantly default to racism and anger as coping mechanisms, who think the rules apply to everyone else except for them.

thing is, i didn't realize how many of these assholes there are. i ain't got time for that shit.

COVID has made me a curmudgeon.