People who talk about the lockdowns like this are not human.
They are unhuman or anti-human like Wario is to Mario or when Link has to fight his shadow. They are the antimatter of humans, as if you could copy a human, paste it, and then click "invert."
It's so easy to prove this that I will do it right now.
You, the reader, remember covid and the lockdowns.
You remember hearing news stories about covid and the lockdowns.
You remember hearing that suicide skyrocketed, along with mental illness and distress, domestic abuse, drug and alcohol abuse, and every manner of violent crime.
You are well aware that these things are caused by great suffering. They do not happen because people chose to be in a bad mood.
You remember hearing that every other small business in the country closed and more than a third of them never opened back up again. You remember that millions of people lost everything they had ever worked for.
Because you remember all of this, you can reasonably assume that the vast majority of people also remember this. You did not study these things. You do not work in the media. There is no special reason that you should remember more of these stories than anyone else.
That means you can reasonably assume that every person who talks about the lockdowns like they were no big deal also remembers that all of these things happened, and then chooses to pretend that they did not. Or that there's no reason these things should have bothered the people they happened to.
Absolutely psychotic treatment of other human beings. Clearly missing a part of the brain necessary to call them human.
If someone you care about tells you they feel sick or they are in pain, do you tell them that they are wrong? That it is no big deal? If you passed someone on a hike, laying on the ground, and they said "help, I broke my leg," would you tell them "no you didn't, stop being a bitch?"
That is what these people are doing when we tell them how damaging these times were.
Remember these people. Mark them. Put them on lists. Take screenshots of what they said. They are false humans. They have bodies, but there is nothing inside the body.
We cannot have them just walking around making their own choices.
If you got oneshotted by staying at home for like a month and having to spend the rest of the year wearing a mask sometimes then I’m sorry it’s a skill issue