I was hoping the online world had stopped using and overusing that stupid non-word that was made up on the spot by either an anonymous teenager or 20-something-year-old.

We didn't get 'scammed' by COVID so much as manipulated in a very big way by our governments, and I'm pretty sure that would include those from countries all around the globe.  It infuriates me when I think back on the lockdowns, the masks, the vaccine requirements (but not vaccines themselves), and all the other crap that seemed to go on forever.

I'm an adult, however.  I can't imagine what it must have been like to be a child growing up and only seeing human faces covered by masks.  That really pisses me off.  What the effects of that have or are going to be, I don't know but I suspect that there was some damage done that didn't need to be done.  Grrrr.