It's not hard to see the fear, hopelessness, etc. in some corners of social media. In the span of only a few months, Americans seem to have shifted from "greatest country in the world" to "Dust Bowl suffering, America is lost." While you have media outlets further trying to encourage people to "embrace" oblivion or at least, living the "new normal" of a Great Depression.
Trump now has the challenge of not just reopening America, but to restore hope and the classic can-do optimism of the country.
Without knowing how long your prison sentence is, there can't be much hope. Life is completely on hold in my state and they have made no clear plans on when to even attempt to begin a reopening process. It's sickening. We'll be lucky to get into phase 1 by late May the earliest.
It's officially still closed down here but more and more people are just starting to ignore it. Traffic is getting heavier, people are out walking around, landscaping and construction have started back up and I noticed a few small businesses are starting to just open up on their own.
You realize this will probably do a 360 when things start opening back up right?
And that social media. Especially those of younger people isn’t a good gauge of how the country is feeling right?
Damn, hoping it does a 180.
I've been kind of anxious and had a sense of urgency, feeling like I have to get my house that I just moved into ready, greenhouse prepared, food supplies stocked, generator and all that stuff, not because of the virus, I don't fear the virus, but the overreaction to the virus, the loss of freedoms across America, that is what is causing me issues. Apparently I'm an essential worker, so I've been working, but the whole time it's in the back of my mind that I need to be preparing for ever increasing government stupidity, but I'm stuck at work with no time to take care of things at home as well as I need to. It's frustrating. I'm grateful for the job, but this caught me unprepared because of the recent move, otherwise I would have had everything already in place that I need.