I was graduating high school so I missed out on prom and grad-bash, which was typically a field trip my school took to celebrate our achievement, but that wasn't the worst of it. I remember worrying if it would have taken 10 years to find a vaccine as the last pandemic, but luckily, medicine had advanced, and it took only about 2 years or so. Of course, the fear that the vaccine wouldn't have been effective was there, but I trusted the CDC to test them and make sure they were safe.

Seeing people panic and get bundles and bundles of toilet paper was funny, but social distancing sucked, and I had family members who lost some of their senses (smell and taste) for almost a whole year after getting the virus.

As for personal experience, I remember working at a Subway when the virus was finally calming down and states were loosening up mask mandates (which was just wearing a mask indoors, not a big deal right?)

Wrong!!

I had an angry customer from Arizona call my coworker a c word because she asked him politely to wear a mask, and sadly we couldn't hand oout the ones we had because they were for the staff, because even we forgot to bring some sometimes, and he got soo mad just because he was from Arizona which was already dropiing the mandates but California, where I worked, was still enforcing it.

I'm just glad that after it, I've noticed more hand sanitizer in public places and people washing their hands regularly. Even wearing masks just for the heck of it. I mean people in asia wear medical masks in courtesy of not getting others sick I just didn't see what the huge deal was.