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Everyone remembers the last activities they did before the world shut down in March 2020. Mine was attending my friend’s beautiful wedding in Aruba and hearing from family back home that all the activities around the Jewish holiday of Purim had been canceled.
I wasn’t shocked that the pandemic was hitting our shores. A month earlier, my brother-in-law who lives in Asia was sending pictures of the temperature check to get into his office building. “We’re all going to get this thing,” he told us. I had already stocked up on canned and paper goods. We got home from the wedding, pulled our kids from school and went straight into lockdown.
While we reminisce on the “before times,” it’s equally important to recall the beliefs that had been shattered by these two COVID-19 years.
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I was a small government conservative, sure, but I somehow still believed in our health agencies. The people were panicking, and buying toilet paper en-masse, but I was certain our health officials had spent decades preparing for a pandemic such as this. They would lead the way on sharing information between countries, carefully discarding information from totalitarian regimes like China, and would prioritize returning us to normal as soon as possible.
In retrospect, it’s crazy that I had such faith. I didn’t think I was naive but it turns out I was. I had generally counted on the government, certainly the federal government, to handle things poorly. I was raised on the Ronald Reagan quote “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.'”
And still, I believed. This was important. This was their moment to shine. They couldn’t let us down now.
They did not shine. They did let us down.
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From locking us all down to…
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