Kung flu virus overload
I have never seen people more closed in, uncommunicative, surly, unresponsive, and isolated - than they are now. I have a massive - tall & striking Great Dane that I walk every day right through downtown Utica, and no one even pays attention. I try to wave at every person I pass and they just go by, either looking away, crossing the road to avoid me, or staring at their phones like their lives depended on it. Friendliness, courtesy, cheer - gone. Media, social media, & politics, an endless barrage of us vs. them, division based on every single aspect - race, color, gender, religion, age, affiliation, class, culture - seems to have finally embedded itself in normal everyday life. Even Christmas isn't cracking the ice anymore. I'm a pretty optimistic and open person, and I'm starting to get very worried. Whatever the scum who genuinely are controlling things are intending to do is beginning to happen. All I can hope for is people start to see before it goes too far. So MERRY CHRISTMAS! I'll smile and wave and I'm sorry for those who don't care to return it - my joy is freely and openly given.
I believe it is repercussions from institutions of the state closing and Oboma care repercussions. So insurance companies no longer have to pay for the mental health the way they used to.
