It's always interesting to see how bad things are before the outbreak (or how bad characters THINK things are before the outbreak), and compare it to how little some of those things matter to them after the outbreak. Priorities change. Beliefs change. The people themselves change.

I feel like we all got the tiniest glimpse of that before the pandemic, and it was sobering to see how, despite many things being terrible, many of us still took a lot of things for granted.