It's amazing to me how much I simply can't relate to people because I spent COVID being an "essential worker" (retail) and therefore spent the entire time working like I always do, and then the world went back to treating us like trash as soon as it ended.
For me, COVID was driving down empty highways with just the cop cars and one or two other cars for company where there should've been dead stop traffic, carrying a piece of paper that said it was legal for me to be out there.
We didn't even get holidays off.