Sit Down and Listen
I would tell them: When covid-19 struck the world, it was when everything fell apart. Everyone wanted what they couldn't have and they all wanted their way. Masks were required almost everywhere, stores, parks, and if you didn't wear one they could kick you out. It was like an apocalypse, only instead of zombies it was greedy people and sick people. When you got a cold, you have the coronavirus. It was the year that the Flu, Colds, and other minor illnesses disappeared and were replaced. A vaccine was being worked on, people like my dad, you would have loved him, were working to get the vaccine to everyone who wanted it. A few months after the vaccine was made, the mask mandate went away, as long as you had the vaccine. It was the time my mom and I started pretending we had got the vaccine. We were sick of masks, and no one would know. The virus to us, was just another sickness that was oh so much worse because of the way the world was, different skin and races to races and skin. Rulers to rulers. Everyone had an opinion and was making it worse. Statues of history being torn down, after all if we forget history it will repeat. I would joke that we should move to somewhere, where the government wasn't falling apart, but I half meant it. There were other things too, at one point an oil factory was attacked, most of the east coast suffered, people were hoarding it, just like they had hoarded cleaning supplies and toilet paper. They were idotic enough to not know that they were just making it worse, if they had continued like normal the gas and toilet paper wouldn't have disappeared. The world was dying.