I'd feel a lot better if the messaging re: ending restrictions were more "here's the science that makes us think this is safe, here are the risks, here's how to mitigate them" and less "hey it's all over now everything's fine go back to normal spend spend spend!"
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Remember how after 9/11 George W Bush (*turns head, spits*) was like "it's your patriotic duty as Americans to go shopping!"
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America: *experiences a collective trauma* Also America: processing? _healing_? in THIS economy?? oh no, pal, you gotta go get those numbers going up again! here, have some shiny new wars to distract you. no you can't have a raise.
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This cycle has played out, with minor variations, multiple times just in my adult lifetime. What if as a society we instead chose to try to actually deal with our traumas, what then
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it's 47°F and raining here :-(
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