I don’t know why people always make 2020 sound so horrible. It was great!! I was traveling all year. Everything was cheap; gas cars, rentals, tourist traps, everything.

Traffic was clear and low, restaurants weren’t crowded. I also made a ton of money that year.

It was amazing and I think people speak too negatively of it. It was the best year in the last five years for everything I just named and it was a good start of the decade.

Also I AM BEING SUPER SERIOUS. Only a few people I had this conversation with in person understands the epicness of 2020, the rest make it seem so drab and I don’t know why they had such a negative outlook on it.

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    Probably more fair to say it was the best year for you.

    I imagine quite a few people had a great 2020 but it’s important to acknowledge that many many many others did not due to isolation, sickness, fear, losing their job and so on. It was a horrifically serious year for the rest of the world.

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      Was it though? USA likes to push that narrative and I know they had Australians in concentration camps but that was more of the corrupt governments torturing their citizens not the cov

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        Yes. Yes it was. Apparently it worked out well for you, which is good (for you). Many others weren’t that fortunate.

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        I’m Australian, and It’s up for argument about how necessary isolation was, but it definitely had a positive impact on transmission of the disease and covid deaths. I know for me, while I was not at high risk from covid, it helped people that I knew were immunocompromised. But the isolation had me in the worst depressive state I ever was in, combined with losing my job, 2020/2021 were some of the most terrifying and horrific parts of my life. I know a few people who died of covid too, so it wasn’t this casual sickness.

        I’m glad you had a good time during it, I just think it’s an unpopular opinion describing it as some of the best years, because that’s dismissive of a huge amount of people who suffered hard.

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            I don’t agree with that view personally, but people are allowed to have their opinions even if they’re conflated and hyperbole. Isolation affected many people in a ton of ways, even ignorant people, so I can understand how the more dramatic/ignorant view of it spread to the rest of the world.

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              Their entire post history is troll shit, that, or they’re genuinely unhinged

              And to say that us Australians were in concentration camps isn’t a matter of opinion, it’s idiotic bullshit from the worst, most unethical people in the world

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                I’m not agreeing with it lol I’m just saying I can understand how that view got spread around. There’s a lot of misinformation about the country, not just about this. Drama makes the headlines.

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            Nah not for me. It was nothing but a terrible time making me relive experiences I never should have experienced. If anything it made me weaker because I’m left with trauma now and am even more fearful of loneliness.

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                Isolation and loneliness. Used to be fine with it now it fucks me up even for short periods of time.

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                    Your whole account is weird. Can’t decide weather its trolling, no respect for others, an AI/LLM, someone just going “fuck it all”, someone mentally ill, or just a regular person with some unconventional view on the world

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                    I wasn’t until I was forced to be isolated for years. Point was simply that it was a traumatic and overall negative experience for me and many people like me.