I read Chris’s article below about how the Covid lockdowns are being forgotten by many people, as the time was so terrible that a natural memory censoring mechanism come into play. I imagine that it is much like people being subjected to violence or other forms of misery and degradation; the mind moves to block out the horrors, so life in a fashion can go on. It is common with sexual assault victims.
Yet, having said that, there are always exceptions to almost every rule and generalisation made about human behaviour, which is one reason why the discipline of psychology fails to be a hard science. Some people on the dreaded CCP spy cite, TikTok, actually miss the lockdowns, as it gave then a well-deserved break from the rat race. This is not as silly as it might first seem, as for many people, lockdowns would have been preferable to the daily grind. But of course, numerous videos of the time showed the opposite, with people undergoing severe stress and psychological trauma, as their livelihoods were threatened through business closures. I think only a minority would have been in the TikTok camp, and while a break from the rat race is an understandable response, it just shows how alienated modern life has become, that a plandemic can offer relief from the existential pain of daily being.