fondly remembering the early stages of the pandemic. when all it took was a youtube vid of a guy dressed in RN scrubs to convince people to start spraying down their groceries with bleach

I got to be honest. I've been pretty much checked out from the beginning. It wasn't like I could stop working. I got a conga line of people with their hands out, and I'm not complaining, mind you. It is what it is. And I worked. Whether it was delivering peking ravioli in an N95, a face shield and surgical gloves or buying shit cars at auction and selling the parts on Craigslist, I worked. The only two things I remember were this article with a headline like "America is a scam" -- it was all of the hypocrisies that COVID-19 laid bare, how we were arresting people we didn't need to arrest, how we could release people on their own recognizance and they would show up to court without hosing them down with ridiculous bail, how you could be in and out of the DMV in twenty minutes without the loss of anyone's job and the lady doctor in NYC who left a note that she did her best but she couldn't save them and tipped on out. She was a hero.

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