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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    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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                  What makes you say that? Like what makes me different in my account activity than other users? I’ve done nothing but engage with communities

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                    The way you engage with communities is quote off the usual stuff people expect from a legit person on here. And you have quite a young account, further playing into the “bot” and “troll” narrative. It seems a little offensive to a lot of people.

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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.