> This is all made much worse by the fact that nobody feels like they can talk about what happened. Many if not a majority of people still don't feel like they

> This is all made much worse by the fact that nobody feels like they can talk about what happened. Many if not a majority of people still don't feel like they can. One way that characterizes the entire pandemic for me in a way that I think is inseparable to the pandemic itself: the company I was at forced a team "race discussion" right at the outset of when society was in chaos and the two Chinese women on the team said this feels like the Cultural Revolution and that they'd left China to escape it, only to feel like it's cropping up again. All I know is that there's a strident progressive authoritarianism that has tried to suppress opposition at any cost and march through the institutions enforcing strict rules against wrongthink.