The Daily Swell
@daily · 4:59
Today is the 4th anniversary of the pandemic era starting: where we are and where we are going
It's very tough for me to remember for when things happened in the past. Now, whether it was pre COVID or after COVID, and everybody seems to have that same kind of fuzzy brain when it comes to remembering at what time events occurred. But March 11 was formally the day that the World Health Organization declared a pandemic. And it was also the day that Tom Hanks announced that he had contracted the virus. And that was a real eye opener for a lot of people
Kerry Thompson
@Fetch · 0:14
You. I did not fear the pandemic. I did not participate in the fear at all. It was a wonderful time for me because the fear was not there. I do not fear the future
And I think that there's obviously conversations to be had about exposure and actual science in that situation and how it was definitely not advisable. But I think that the thing that I saw that came out from that was less a worry about whether or not he was going to spread any disease and more an anger towards the fact that he was doing something that he told all of us that we couldn't do
There's a wide spectrum of issues that were exposed even further by this pandemic, a pandemic that is still ongoing, by the way. There are over 2000 people in this country dying from COVID every week. And I feel, and it is also a fact that if you are going around pretending that everything is normal or is going back to normal, that is so privilege of you. You are very, very privileged
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 3:00
The only thing I think we're ready for is the fact that if there was another pandemic, we know how to shelter in place, we know what to do. But are we all prepared? And that's why I was doing, do we have six months of food? Do we have extra toilet paper? Do we have extra this? Do we have extra that? Are we prepared? If we couldn't get any, what would we do? So, no, we're not prepared
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15
They're struggling to breathe after doing something to. They over exerted their body when they shouldn't have had to. And we're not medically prepared. We're not medically prepared because people are exhausted. We need a whole reset. Our health care system is not fragile right now. It's falling apart. It's falling apart. My primary care physician is so incompetent. She's so incompetent
Evelyn Phipps
@LadyFi · 4:53
It needs lots of surveys, lots of people to take it and then they see what happens. So, no, I don't think that we're medically prepared. I think we were on the brink of a bigger pandemic and that's why they just came up with stuff. Now, did it work? I don't know. I really don't know because it didn't keep anybody from getting COVID. It didn't keep me from getting COVID. I ended up getting COVID two more times
Michelle Murad
@MichelleMurad · 2:24
And I remember when Tom Hanks got it, I was just like, oh, God, we can't lose Tom Hanks. I mean, we lost a lot of people. So for all those people that passed, this has been an interesting four years, as I count on all of this. But, man,
So my biggest takeaway from the pandemic, when it first started, unfortunately, was how I think as Americans, we have too much freedom. And I never thought in a million years I'd say that, but the pandemic taught me that. And at the time, I was working in the retail sector, I was working at a UPS store here in Chicago, and I remember just seeing a side of people that I really did not like
Denise Adame
@mamasocal · 4:50
So that's crazy that we're seeing this prompt. Today marks the fourth year anniversary, and then four years later, they're pretty much saying, treat it as if it's a cold, which is nuts. So where is this leading to? I guess what was all that fear that we all feared, like, all those lives. I have family that I lost because of COVID and especially during that pandemic and stuff, a time I truly will never, ever forget