I agree with this poster.
Return to ‘normal’ is not possible.

Hon, I say this with all love and no judgment: you don't need the government to "open" things. You need a therapist to explain that the past you long to return to isn't coming back.

A lot of us need that, really. https://t.co/OARmeMjFwI

— Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll) February 12, 2022

The subway isn't as busy as you remember because some people are working from home, some people quit their jobs to homeschool their kids, some people are sick, and some people are dead. A proclamation from the mayor isn't going to fill their empty seats for you.

— Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll) February 12, 2022

Like, god, the restaurant situation alone stuns me. Do you understand how MANY of the Before Times restaurant clientele was families with children under the age of 5? Do you expect them to eat out when their kids can't be vaccinated? Really, sweetie??? Really?

— Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll) February 12, 2022

My own strategy for coping is to try to imagine how we can make a BETTER world. Like, what if we tore down those useless empty business offices and put in trees and parks and vegetable gardens.

— Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll) February 12, 2022

What if we found new ways for people to get out and socialize safely without having to be indoors during an airborne plague?

— Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll) February 12, 2022

We need a national mourning commemorating and acknowledging what we've lost.

Fascists will weaponize what has been lost and blame marginalized people for the loss. That's how fascism works.

— Ana Mardoll (@AnaMardoll) February 12, 2022