That's how I feel, like you have my current address on the return! It's not processed but I know it's in the system, so at least update that so I can look at my transcripts!
I know, me too, I try to keep perspective because of how serious the virus has been. We're healthy and alive when others aren't In that same breath, people who get refunds are the hardest hit, I couldn't afford an extra day off, much less weeks! This is the time of year I'm supposed to be catching up, not falling further.
The wage for people like me increased 67% from 1960, but that doesn't seem all that great when rent costs have increased around 170% house buying costs 114% and college 212% The upper class income increase during that same time period? 118% So the disparity grew and now over 20% of American families don't even make half of a "livable" wage. Livable just means bills paid, no vacations though, to make that same livable amount a single parent would have to work 138 hour weeks, two parents would have to work 80 hour shifts a piece. More if they have more than two kids.
It's an outrage is what it is. Not just that this happened, though I do think we were underprepared, I understand a pandemic is a pandemic, Act of God and all. It's the bald fact so many couldn't afford it because the top echelon said "You want us to pay people enough to survive? With the possibility of Thriving?!? Nonsense, Half. They will get half." And people were like "Okay" and then decided health insurance would cost almost the exact yearly salary of that family with two working parents. That's what the stimulus was for, not so much to take care of us, but to give us something to distract ourselves with.
When I'm working it's easier to just drive on, I don't have time to mourn the state of the American dream, but now that's all I can think about. People out there looking forward to the end of quarantine, but if I don't find work soon I'll continue to dread it. How many will lose their electric then? Will be evicted by unscrupulous landlords?
It just sucks, it all sucks. Working helps me maintain the illusion of positive momentum, forward movement.