The gaslighting about early in the pandemic is so intense right now that it's rare for me to run into someone who actually does have an accurate recollection of how things went down.
I'm an election nerd and watched the daily White House press briefings, Andrew Cuomo's daily briefings, and anything Fauci said, so I remember it all very vividly and thoroughly. I started lifting a lot more during lockdown and would just run the tape of these briefings every day while I did my workouts.
Like do you really think "public health officials" (who?) made any promises about when we'll be back to normal? At the time they were criticized, often to their faces by Trump on live television, for being very pessimistic about the timeline. Trump was promising it would miraculously disappear, and that we'd have a vaccine "very very soon", meanwhile Fauci was saying there was basically no end in sight. Which turned out to be accurate.
Things that are popular and things that are the truth don't always line up. People always will like the idea that a crisis ends soon, even when that's clearly not the case.
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