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Old Posted Mar 30, 2021, 5:52 PM
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Originally Posted by Architype View Post
Covid and it's consequences.
Are you referring to the health/medical consequences or the social/political/economic consequences of lockdown legislation? I feel like in my case it's been the latter more than the former. My own parents (god love them) have a completely different perspective of the consequences of lockdowns and the ever-so-shifting goalposts over the past year that it's disappointing they cannot look at things from that context; they watch CBC everyday and talk about 'new variants' and '5 new cases' etc but don't understand why their 3 sons are all suffering massive financial and career hardships & uncertainty. Both my parents raised my siblings and I in a lower-middle class household in rural Nova Scotia, yet they both retired at 63 and don't seem to have a clue of what's going on outside of their TV/Twitter bubble.
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