How the lockdowns drove us all crazy | Nellie Bowles | The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie

People are not the same. Many people have not come back out :(

I think being lied to continuously drives most people crazy

It's the shift in narrative that is shown in 1984. To paraphrase, 'We've always been at war with east eurasia, stop saying otherwise.'

Her book is fantastic. Really worth reading to get the full picture of just how insane things have gotten. And the worst part is that NYT and other mainstream press refused to cover it. Really eye-opening!

In 2020 I scramed to a small Mexico town with no lockdowns, mask mandates, and the quackcine was nowhere to be found. My mental health (and physical health) are pristine at the moment, thank you very much.

I was violently assaulted and injured 2 times in DC for no reason and the police did not make a crime report. The police laughed at me the first time.

Protect this woman at all costs!!!

I never changed. I still don't listen to the state and still don't give a shit about what others think of me. Only bootlickers were affected the hardest besides hard working folks.

I live in rural WY and there was no lock down here, as far as I could tell, although many if not all schools closed for some time. I posit that a person is extremely foolish to live in NYC (looking at you Nick) or even worse DC these days.

Man, everyone went nuts over ventilators. Just the worst thing the US didn’t have 1000s of Ventilators on hand. I remember being so mad and everyone being so mad. Right now, I could give af about ventilators.

The need to tip toe around the influence of female psychological chaos hamstrings this conversation to a grave degree. Not that I blame them for doing it. If they address it directly, women would use relational aggression (false accusations, ostracism, etc.) to try to destroy them. This chaos is driving society to a pretty hopeless place.

As an introvert I flourished during lockdown.

Living in Montana, my day to day routine was absolutely unchanged.

Thanks for making sense of what she's saying. For an author, she sure has a hard time explaining things clearly. 😂

I hope that Nellie grows more famous and speaks more than her wife Bari. Nellie is so light and endearing!

some of us have never gotten over covid : /

Thats amazing info, you really great journalist! I am not fragile, I know my mind, so I never got into that BS. Interesting to hear about it

The Covid lockdown felt like a warm hug to me. I had a great time doing what I've always done. I'm an Aspie (Asperger's), definitely not an introvert. But I hate being the center of attention, which happens all too often. I don't go to parties for that reason. Phone conversations and YouTube video comments (like this) are my preferred Pro nouns. I am always working on sharing the stage, being careful to talk with, not to or at, others. Y'all may consider yourselves "back to normal," but the only thing that has changed for me is ... nothing. Until 7 October 2023. Now I finally have a Jewish identity! Hatred and all-too-real threats of pogroms and genocide can do that. It's not so much that I'm an atheist – ever since my first few hours of life as a blastocyst – but I realize that now is the time to accept the glove thrown at my feet by Hamas terrorists, their supporters, and their defenders. I can confront their irrational ideology, their admiration of martyrdom, their denial of reality, and their flagrant fabrications and defamatory accusations. I have become an online soldier using objective reality and fact-based argumentation to expose the fallacies inherent in my enemies' faith-based assumptions. And what is Jew Hatred if not a faith-based assumption?

The idea that chaos is the norm and "this" is the exeption is very american exceptionalist I think people get along all over the world for a long time

As a reader of Reason for 20+ years, it always saddens me that they haven't faired better during the social media age (view numbers of this stellar interview being an example). Though I take solice in knowing that they'll survive its looming collapse.