I was nodding my head the entire way through this post. You brought up a few things that I forgot to mention in my own post. I feel embarrassed that I fell for the lies about the vaccines. Some of the truth is coming out now and it's absolutely horrendous. We lost a lot of small, local businesses here as well. I really miss some of them. It's weird for me to think that we lived in the golden age of small businesses (2010-2020). It was so much fun, you really did give you more of a sense of community when you could frequent those local shops and get to know the owners and staff. I really hope some of what we've lost is recovered. It probably will in time.