The Great Gaslight Era

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To the ableds who want it back to "normal". This is the normal you made by not listening to us. This is the normal you created by saying our lives didn't matter Only the person in the mirror is to blame. Shaming someone for having a breakdown. Only makes the "normal" worse.

YES! Everyone is in such a rush to pretend that we're not living through mass trauma!

2019 is over. And while people keep denying that fact we'll not see any kind of normalcy in the years to come. Fictionalized pandemics that make society crumble in days are a great contributor to the idea if it doesn't collapse quickly isn't happening. Rome took 100 years to end.

Also being told to rush returning to normal would “save the economy” and now, millions of lives later, we’re STILL facing a recession this year and thousands losing jobs and health benefits. Meaning the rush to ignore COVID…led to exactly the situation abled wanted to avoid.

Sheds a whole new light on the manic flappers and their beaus from the 1920s.

The "I wonder where all this came from" comments through me off because really?? Do you not sense what's going on? Everything is falling apart all at once.😭😭😭

This was what depressed me most of all. As the dying accelerated, but lockdowns ended, and we all saw the masks slip, the facades fall, and the tragedy unfold, but there they were, putting shrouds painted with life, masks taken from death and pretending like nothing happened. I

Yup. And lots of people learned that the people in power won't protect us. (Lots of people already knew, but a bunch of folks are catching up).