4 years ago:
Extra washing of grocery foods that might have covid .. IF you could find stuff on the empty shelves
No toilet paper
No water
No hand sanitizer
No masks
6 month wait to buy new appliances
Even simple things like picking up the mail were suspect.. like hmm might this be contaminated?.. wiping it, leaving somewhere for a few days, and/or wearing gloves
A 9/11 worth of dead Americans every day
Refrigerated trucks for dead bodies as makeshift morgues due to overcrowding (murder hornets no doubt!)
Lockdowns / massive spike in unemployment
A massive spike in the national deficit
& debt
A massive spike in the money supply
aka "printing money"
GDP plummeted
Oil crash (cool if you're an average american buying gas.. maybe not so much if you're in the industry.)
Stock market crash
The president on tape saying he knew Covid was deadly, airborne, and affecting younger people... meanwhile less than 1 week later turning around and talking about packing the churches for Easter Sunday.
False hopes of hyped drugs ( ivermectin ) that do nothing as far as hospitalization and death.
2024 IS better..... but to be fair 2020 was a complete sh*t show so that is a bit of a low bar. But on the other hand, by some of these metrics now we also beat 2019 ... Unemployment and the DJIA for 2..