コロナ禍から5年に何が学べたか？

＜日本語＞

          2025年3月は新型コロナウイルスに関してコロナ禍は世界保健機関によって宣言されたから5周年記念、その時にそんな致命的な伝染病を防ぐのために世界のみんなは一日中家の中にいた。新型コロナウイルスの起源は中国の武漢市に市場でした、でもあなたは保守派ならば信じるだろうなは起源はその都市に研究所ありそうなのでした。そう、どうやって私たちの生活と健康を優先することを変えるのその人生が変わったの出来事から今5年です。新型コロナウイルスがいたんだけど社会で何でも改善について2020年と2025年の間にいったい何が学べたか？確実にたくさんはなかった．．．実際は、その5年間に社会はもっと更に悪いになった！事務所と劇場とショッピングセンターのように仕事は閉じられたの間に（食料と化粧品のように必需品があるの食料品店を除いて）、人々が在宅勤務なければならないとＷｅｂカメラを使うと他の人々と遠くから話していたと、私たちがもっともっと政治的分断されたになった、もっと短気なとなんでにかかわらずずっと不平を言っている（なんとバカらしいことでも特に）。シャツの上に厄介な染みのように：一回洗濯後、その染みがまだシャツの上にいる、でも欲求不満と絶望に至る、どんな洗い試みるでもその染みが絶対取り除かれたはないだろうなのだから！後で冒涜を言っている間に怒っているドナルド・ダックのように家の中にすべてのものを破壊する、結果として誰でも一緒に住んでいたの人々が心配する、最後によそよそしくする。さて、その例えに象徴主義はどこでしょうかな．．．！

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          最初の新型コロナウイルス伝染病から5年間に、コロナウイルスとマスクとワクチンについてバカらしい陰謀を考えていることによって人々がバカになっていた。黒人たちと警察の困ている関係の続きについて「ブラック・ライヴズ・マター」の復興が起こった；すべてのアジア人は中国人と中国からだから中国人だから確かに新型コロナウイルスが始めるの仮定だからアジア人たちで憎しみがいた；日本にほとんどすべての人々が思ったは2020年東京オリンピックは要らなかった；二つの大戦争（ロシア対ウクライナ、そしてパレスチナ国のガザ地区にイスラエル対ハマース）がいるだから嫌う人や意味が合わない人について（ロシア人とユダヤ人の特に）よく考えるのことを全く変わった；苦しみを感じていたのアメリカのハリウッドに2023年全米脚本家組合とSAG-AFTRAストライキが起こった、そして最近に突然の山火事だから大部分の家があいにく無くなってしまった；日本の人々は自由民主党がもう好んではない、日本といえば新型コロナウイルスが静まった時にその国とスペインは不運なオーバーツーリズムのターゲットになった、そして2001年9月11日に比べてもっともっともっと死亡も起こった、新型コロナによって人が死んだ、テロリストによって人は殺された、大災害と他の悲劇によっても、それとも政治家と有名人の死亡について。アメリカの大統領としてドナルド・トランプのトラブルがいっぱいの四年期間が終わったよかった、でも四年後今もう一度大統領になった、理由はコロナ禍の後でインフレはまだ問題サ、結果としてもっと人々が保守派たちになっていると言っているは「権威主義が大好き」って。例えば、時間の浪費だっただから人々はダイバーシティとインクルージョンがもう好きじゃない、信じたは有色人種とLGBTQ+コミュニティは食料品店にホントに高い値段と関係はないって。そして日本は二人の新しい総理大臣があった、そしてポケットモンスターテレビアニメにサトシとピカチュウの最終話は放送された、そしてイーロン・マスクだからツイッターはもっと更に悪いになっているのXになった、そしてエムポックス、そして．．．

          2020年から2025年まですべては悪いことのたくさんはない、例えばコロナ禍の間にAdoは大人気になった。2020年東京オリンピックと2022年北京冬季オリンピックと2024年パリオリンピックはたくさんのつまずきにもかかわらず成功したんだった。ポップミュージックの世界にAdoのようにオリヴィア・ロドリゴも大人気になったと、三つの新しいアルバム「フォークロア」、「エヴァーモア」、そして「ミッドナイツ」や、経済的に成功したコンサート「ザ・エラス・ツアー」も、テイラー・スウィフトは人気の復興があった。映画「ザ・スーパーマリオブラザーズ・ムービー」と「バービー」は映画館の切符売場に大ヒットだった。「暗号通貨」と「人工知能」または「A.I.」の専門用語は良いことため悪いことためしばしば。バイデンはアメリカの大統領の間にパレスチナ・イスラエル戦争は停戦によって解決された。あっ、忘れたくないけど、タイ王国が同性結婚を合法化した！最後に、ついに日本の大衆文化を西欧によく認めた、テレビドラマ「SHOGUN将軍」の主演女優アンナ・サワイを含めて、アカデミー賞にスタジオジブリと宮崎駿の「君たちはどう生きるか」と山崎貴の「ゴジラ-1.0」の受賞と、新しい学校のリーダーズとYOASOBIのようにJ-POPアーティストで世界コンサートツアーも、そして最近流行のように世界のみんなの日本観光（円安にもかかわらず日本の経済を助けているでも）！そうだ、なんでわからないけどみんなも「あつまれ　どうぶつの森」と「愛の不時着」や「イカゲーム」のように韓国テレビドラマも大好きだった！

 

          まあ、それらの二つの段落の長さから新型コロナウイルスの登場から5年間にたぶん悪い出来事より良い出来事は少ないだけど地球の人々が知らなかったのウイルスから死んでいるを防ぐ試みていた間に少なくとも一つだけの良い出来事はもう十分じゃないのカイ？

 

          この2020年代の半分に人々の生活は本当に超影響された！そんな長い時間に家の中に人々はうんざりしていただから同情するできるね、マスクを着ないと要らない時間に外へ行っているによってルールを破るでなければ、それで他の人が思ったはそのルールを破っている人は新型コロナウイルスがあった！その時に、ある人々が人生を改善した、でも政治のせいで他の人々がもっともっと更に悪いになった。あのね、現在に世界は分裂した戦場、私たちの敵は政治に意見が合わないと人または大嫌いな人だ。それは数十年間で数世紀間でいつものようにのことだけどこれは違う。反応する前に対立する理論を聞いているの代わりに、それとも礼儀正しい会話があっているの代わりに、私たちが早合点すると、あんまり怒り易いから早いに怒っていると、そして傲慢になるとみんなより良いと思う。政府の人と国民は違うな人ってわかっているはない、私たちはマジで誤報の犠牲者だ、そしてあんまりたくさんの悲観的なニュースを読む。その上に、何の言葉は人々を聞きたいについて心配する、本当の個人的な感情について言葉を言っているの代わりに。私はなんと最低なアメリカから人ですけど、これは私の意見だけじゃない、現実ですな。毎日トランプとプーチンのこの世界に損害について怒っているになるばかりだよ！運良く私が不平を言っていないは信じるは2020年選挙の後でトランプがもう一度アメリカの大統領になった、または新型コロナウイルスからワクチンがあると猿になるできる、またはすべてのロシア人はテロリスト、またはトランスジェンダー女性は本当の女性じゃないけど実は女性になりたいの男性だ、または女性が不快な感じるだからすべての男性が消えるべき（映画「アベンジャーズ／インフィニティ・ウォー」から最後のシーンにサノスのことのように）、またはハマースは英雄たち、または地球は平ら、または新型コロナウイルスは注目が欲しいのために主流メディアから作り話。すべてそれらについてなんで私が不平を言っていないって？心の中から私が信じるはすべてそれらは嘘だ。

 

          とにかく、前に述べたは、コロナ禍の間にどうやって私たちの生活と健康を優先することが絶対変わった、そして何の情報を調査することやどのように反応するも、人間として発展の貢献に至る、だから私たちは人間ばかりのサ！完璧じゃないけど必要はない、しかし世界がもっと良い場所になるできるため少なくとも改善するなければならない、殺人のようにウイルスの存在にもかかわらず！あいにく、この点に関して大部分の人々が改善するはなかった。誰を責めたいって？もちろん、政治家たちを責めろ！

 

          コロナ禍から私が何をしていたって？ウクライナを信じるからもっと政治的になったの他に、いつものように同じことをしていた、このように随筆を書いていると、俳句や短歌も、二つの大切な漫画シリーズを完成していたも、など。心配しないで、Perfumeのあ～ちゃんとのっちとかしゆかがまだ心の中から大好きでも、私がAdoのファンになった、今Adoは私の新しい大好きなJ-POPアーティストだ、神さまのように歌う範囲だからボーカルコーチを含めて曲を聴こえるの驚嘆されたの人々が言うはAdoは「歌っていることの未来」って。たくさんの色々なかわいいキャラクターたちと意義深い感情の深さだからついに「美少女戦士セーラームーン」は「ドラえもん」の他に私の一番大好きなテレビアニメ、「劇場版　美少女戦士セーラームーンCosmos」とそんな旅が終わった。私がわかったは私自身の体を恥じることはだめ、それでヌーディストになった．．．ちょっと待った！コロナ禍から私が何をしていたことについていったい誰が聞きたいのカイ？！あなたはどうですか？！コロナ禍から何のことをしていた？うまくいけばもっと良い人間になったはね！

 

          それを除けば新型コロナウイルスから5年間の思い出しとどのように社会が改善されたまたはもっと更に悪いになったと思ったの随筆でした、そして私とみんなは元気だったならばを質問していること。要約すると、新型コロナウイルスは私たちの人生でプラスまたはマイナスのなんと重要な影響があった、だけどそれでも現在にこの世界は全くもっと良いはない、それも改善するべき。確実にみんなが知っていたべき、でも知っていたはないならばたぶん情報のためにテクノロジーがないと無人島に裸の隠者だ、みんなそんな人のようになりたいな～！まだ2030年まで5年を残りでも新型コロナウイルスが全然消えるはないでしょう、インフルエンザのようにいつも新しい伝染病が来る、マスクを着ているが大切にするの日本人がそんな真実をあまりよく知っているね！私がやりたいならば、今から5年後このように随筆を書くできる、新型コロナウイルスは天然痘のように絶滅させられたならばのために、現在と違うの社会がホントにもっと良いになったならばのために、それは誇張しすぎるんじゃないけど！？好きでも嫌いでも新型コロナと一緒に、ある人々が絶対変わらないだろうなも（大部分の人が大嫌いのトランプとプーチンが100歳になったならば驚きはないはね！）。老人と保守派たちと知らないや短気な人に人生改善のように新しいことは絶対無理だ！

 

          私の願いは、5年後もう一度このように随筆を書くならばもう一つのパンデミックが起こらない、それともある小惑星が地球へすべての人々を殺している間に墜落するはない！私の他の5年後の願いは全世界の戦争が絶対やめる、政治家たちは国民たちのためにもっと責任がある、本当に悪い人たちは罰される、そしてもっと人々が要らない時間に怒らないでやその代わりに聞き分ける。結果として、ついに中東に平和がいるできる、ウクライナに自由がいるとロシアにプーチンの支配が終わるできる、自殺はだんだん少なく、そして2024年にトランプのために投票したのアメリカの人々が本当に選択の結果についてわかると2028年に思うできるはその同じ間違いをすることはだめ、最後に、悪いバイラルビデオの主演するを防ぐためみんなはもっと優しいになるはどう？完璧な世界にすべてのそれらは可能性だけど2030年にマジか？！それにもかかわらず、正気を維持するに違いない；他の年代よりどうやってこの年代はもっと一番最高について笑顔と笑いがあると未来の子供たちを教えるできるは「2020年代はどうだったって？良い出来事よりもっと悪い出来事が起こったでも、忍耐強く続けただけじゃない、もっと優しい人間たちになったと、他の年代に比べてもっと率直な人間たちになったも、それはなんと大事な勉強です！」、全く未来の子供たちでなんと大事な勉強ですね、それといじめっこになるはないとつまり意味臆病者たちになるはない。ところで、それらの未来の子供たちはまさか新型コロナウイルスがあるかしら？

 

          要するに、新型コロナウイルスの影響はまだ終わらない、まだ世界に戦争が起こっているともっと悪い政治家がいる、その上に大部分の人々はいつも怒っていると世界に何の出来事について知らせられたはない、それで病気になっている防ぐためマスクを着てや手を洗ってください、そしてばかなにならないでください！過去に政治と社会問題に興味がないから毎回私たちがばかなになったでもこの時代に今許さない！新型コロナウイルスの前にAIDS（エイズ）とエボラとジカウイルスについてよく知っていたの？！結局、後悔があるだろうな、それで世界に何の出来事について知らせられてるになる続けてだけじゃない（人が健康で気にするなだから鳥インフルエンザのようにもう一つのパンデミックが起こるは知らないだろう．．．！）、ロシア人またはベラルーシ人でなければ投票してください！投票していることは地球人の一番重要な責任、満たさないならば私たちは奴隷たちと、独裁者たちが地球を確かに支配するだろう、それとも黒死病のようにみんなは病気があると死ぬ。えっ？「ドラえもん」からジャイアンだらけの世界？！そんな最悪の事態は可能性だけどイライラさせられたジャイアンの二人以上がお互いに戦うならば絶対負けるだろうね！

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＜英語＞

            March 2025 will be five years since the World Health Organization declared the Coronavirus (COVID-19) a pandemic, which caused nearly everyone around the world to be forced to stay in their homes to prevent the spread of the then-fatal disease that may have had its origins at a market in Wuhan, China – though if you’re a far-right conservative, you could say that it originated in some laboratory located in the same area. Yes, it would’ve been five years since that massive life-altering event that forever changed the way we think about ourselves and how we prioritize our health, and what exactly have we learned between 2020 and 2025 in terms of there being any improvements in the way our society functions despite the presence of COVID? Supposedly, not a lot; In fact, our society has actually become a lot worse in those five years! While businesses like offices, theaters, and shopping centers were shut down (except for grocery stores where people needed to buy essential items like food and toiletries), and people had to resort to working from home as well as communicating with each other remotely from afar with technology such as webcams, we’ve also become more and more politically divided than ever, not to mention becoming more quick to anger and complaining more often regardless of why (even over the most insignificant of things). It’s like a stain on a shirt that’s hard to get off at first: One attempt to wash it off later, the stain is still there, but you’re left extremely frustrated in the end and feeling hopeless because no matter how much you try to get it off, the stain just can’t be removed! Soon, you throw a fit and start busting up everything inside your home while saying things that you will eventually regret, causing those whom you live with to become worried about you, and eventually distance themselves from you if you keep it up. I think I’ll leave it up to you to find the symbolism in that example…!

 

            Over the span of five years since the first COVID-19 infection, we have had people become incredibly stupid by coming up with more ridiculous conspiracy theories regarding the unpredictable disease, wearing masks to protect ourselves, and getting vaccinated to stop its spread. We’ve also had a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement that helped us changed the way we think about Black people trying to live their lives without being constantly interrogated by the police; We’ve had hate being spread towards Asians simply because there are those who think every Asian is Chinese and that Chinese are the only ones who could’ve possibly allowed the COVID-19 pandemic to happen in the first place (because they’re all from China); We’ve had an Olympic Games that almost no one in Japan asked for; We’ve had the initiation of two major wars (one between Russia and Ukraine, the other between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza strip in Palestine) that forever changed the way we think about people whom we dislike just because of who they are or disagree with politically (particularly the Russian and Jewish people); We’ve had Hollywood in the United States go through an extremely rough time with labor disputes towards major studios resulting in writer and actor strikes in 2023, and most recently with nearly all of the homes of those writers and actors engulfed in flames and lost due to sudden wildfires; We’ve seen people in Japan lose trust in the Liberal Democratic Party, and speaking of Japan, it, along with Spain, has become an unfortunate target of over-tourism once COVID-19 subsided, not to mention we’ve had people dying in the most unexpectedly high of numbers not seen since 9/11, whether they be COVID-19 victims, those killed by means of terrorism, natural disasters, or other related tragedies, or other important figures such as politicians and celebrities. We’ve also said “Good riddance” as Donald Trump ended his controversial four-year term as President of the United States, only for him to return to the White House because inflation as a result of COVID-19 is still clearly a problem, with more people becoming right-wing conservative and giving in to authoritarianism than ever before; One major example would be people getting real tired of diversity and inclusion, thinking that it was going nowhere fast because they think that people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community don’t really matter anymore and that it has nothing to do with fighting off really expensive grocery prices. Did we forget to mention Japan has had two new Prime Ministers? Or the fact that we all had to say goodbye to Satoshi (Ash) and Pikachu from the Pokémon TV anime series one last time? How about Twitter turning into X after being taken over by Elon Musk, resulting in the social media platform becoming worse and worse by the day?! One more thing: Monkeypox!

 

            It’s not all bad, though! After all, in-between the half-decade of the COVID-19 era, we’ve witnessed Ado rise to prominence in the JPOP music scene. Meanwhile, the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, and the Paris 2024 Olympics were not without their shares of great moments despite their numerous setbacks. Also, not only did we witness the rise of Olivia Rodrigo in terms of her professional music career, we’ve seen Taylor Swift resurge back into popularity with her albums Folklore, Evermore, and Midnights, culminating in her commercially successful concert phenomenon known as The Eras Tour. We’ve seen films like The Super Mario Bros. Movie and Barbie become box office smashes; Terminologies like “cryptocurrency” and “Artificial Intelligence” became common-used (for better or for worse); The Israel-Hamas war was eventually resolved with a ceasefire under the Biden Administration in the United States, and Thailand legalized gay marriage! Speaking of Ado, Japanese popular culture may have finally got the long-time-coming recognition that it rightfully deserved in the West, including the presence of Anna Sawai (the Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning star of the series Shogun), Academy Award wins for The Boy and the Heron and Godzilla Minus One, and world tours for JPOP sensations like Atarashii Gakko! and Yoasobi, plus on a side note, everyone treating visiting Japan for the purposes of tourism like it’s some sort of popular fashion trend (though it is supposedly helping Japan’s economy despite the weak yen)! Oh, and people were going crazy over Animal Crossing: New Horizons for some reason, not to mention South Korean shows like Crash Landing on You and Squid Game!

 

            Okay, so maybe there weren’t that many good things that happened over bad because of how long those last two paragraphs were, in regards to what’s been happening in the five years since COVID-19, but at least there’s got to have been something good that actually happened as everyone around the world was going through unchartered waters in how to keep themselves from dying of deteriorating immune systems all of a sudden!

 

            It can be confirmed without question that the first half of the 2020s has impacted numerous amounts of people in a variety of ways. It can be difficult to imagine what those kinds of people must’ve gone through as they were either cooped up in their homes looking for something productive to do, or causing a ruckus by not following orders like wearing masks and going outside when it’s not necessary and having people assume a person has COVID as they spread their supposed germs all over the place! Some people managed to improve their lives in that time, while others unfortunately got worse and worse, with politics becoming the number one ultimate factor. You see, the world has now transformed into a more divisive battleground, where we treat people that we disagree with politically or we don’t like as if they are our mortal enemies. As it turns out, this kind of scenario has been going on for decades, even centuries, but never has it been witnessed in this matter! Instead of just simply listening to what the other side has to say before we react, or at the very least have respectful conversations with one another, we end up jumping to conclusions, get upset very easily as if we’re way too sensitive, and try numerous blatant ways to prove that we’re right and we’re the ones that are superior to everyone else. We also have become unable to learn how to separate government from people, we’ve allowed ourselves to become victims of misinformation too often, or we’ve let doomscrolling leave us with mental scars. There’s also the fact that we’ve become far too worried about what others think about us whenever we say something versus saying what we truly feel whether people want to hear it or not. This isn’t simply just my personal perspective (as someone from the United States, which has suffered the worst in this regard), but I feel like this is the reality of the situation; All I ever do is make sure I spend seconds of my time getting mad and angry deep inside over the amount of damage Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have caused onto this planet, and that’s it! I’m just about lucky that I don’t waste precious time here complaining that the 2020 United States Presidential Election was stolen, that COVID-19 vaccines turn you into a monkey, that all Russians are terrorists, that transwomen are not actually women but just men who wish they could be women, that men should just be wiped out – like Thanos wiping out half of the universe at the end of Avengers: Infinity War – because they only make women’s lives miserable, that the actions of Hamas are justifiable, that the Earth is flat, or that COVID-19 was a hoax perpetrated by the mainstream media in order to attract more viewers. Why? Because I know in my heart that none of those things I just listed are true.

 

            The point is this:  As mentioned earlier, the amount of time that was spent during the COVID-19 pandemic has definitely changed the way that we see ourselves and each other, as well as how we take care of our health and safety both physical and mental, and what kinds of information we research and our reactions to it, all of which contributing to how we grow as human beings, because that’s just what we are: human beings. We’re not perfect, we don’t have to be, but we all need to be doing our part to help make sure the world is a much better place to live in than it was years ago despite the presence of a virus that could potentially kill you in days, and so far, most of us are failing at such a task, and if you’re going to blame anyone, you guessed it: Blame the politicians!

 

            As for me, aside from becoming more political than I was before specifically due to my pro-Ukraine stance, since COVID-19 began, I’ve basically been doing the same things I’ve always done, whether it be writing essays like this one, writing haiku and tanka poetry, finishing up two manga series that have been passion projects of mine, etc. I’ve also become fully embraced with Ado, whom I now consider to be my new favorite music artist of all time (But not to worry; A~Chan, Nocchi, and Kashiyuka of Perfume still remain a special place in my heart after all these years), with her breathtaking and insane vocal range causing her to be considered “the future of singing” according to those who have become amazed and shocked by listening to her songs, especially a certain number of vocal coaches. I’ve finally declared Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon to be one of my absolute favorite anime series of all time due to its lovable and colorful cast of characters and significant amount of emotional depth (completing the journey with the two-part film Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Cosmos). I’ve learned that I should not be ashamed of my own body and started being a nudist… You know what, on second thought, why would anyone possibly be interested in what I’ve been doing since COVID?! What about you?! What have you been doing in the five years since COVID-19 was declared a pandemic? Have you gotten better as a person since then? Hopefully so.

 

            Otherwise, there you have it: That was my take on a recap of five years since the emergence of COVID-19 and how I thought society in general has evolved or deteriorated since then, as well as how everyone has been doing, including myself. In summary, COVID-19 created a big impact on our lives whether positively or negatively, but we have seen that the world nonetheless has not gotten any better and is in desperate need of changing. Surely, these are all things that everyone should know, and if you haven’t by now, you’re most likely a hermit living naked on a deserted island without any technology to stay informed, something that people oughta wish to be! Even though we still have five more years to go until 2030, that doesn’t mean that COVID-19 is going to be completely gone, as there’s always going to be new infections just like with the flu, something that the Japanese people know all too well, which is why they have taken mask-wearing as a virtue. Should I choose to do so, I can always write something similar to this one as a follow-up by the time five more years have passed to see if COVID-19 really has been eradicated like the smallpox, or if society has actually improved upon itself unlike what we are witnessing right now, but that would be an over-exaggeration; COVID-19 is here to stay whether people like it or not, and speaking of people, perhaps some of them just never change (I mean, who would possibly be surprised if Trump and Putin live to be more than 100 years old, still doing what most people hate about them?!)! As they say, you just can’t teach an old dog new tricks, therefore, you can never teach older people, right-wing conservatives, or those who are simply ignorant or short-tempered how to improve their lives; You just can’t.

 

            All I can best hope if I ever write such a follow-up is that another pandemic doesn’t start or an asteroid does not hit the Earth and potentially destroy us all prior to me writing the very first sentence! Other hopes for the next five years that I have would be for all wars around the world to finally stop, for politicians to actually do their job and serve the people in their country the way they should, for those who commit evil or support it to be held accountable, and for more people to listen to reason and stop being so grouchy all the time when it’s not the time to be so. That way, there can finally be peace in the Middle East, Ukraine would be left alone and Russia would be free of Putin’s tyranny, there would be less suicides happening, as well as there being more American people who would understand what they were up against when voting for Trump in 2024 so that they don’t repeat that same mistake when they go to their nearest voting booth in 2028, and finally, everyone would just become a little bit more nicer to one another so they don’t have to become stars of viral internet videos for the wrong reasons. At least, that’s what I would want to wish would happen in a perfect world, but it’s less likely that anything I just mentioned here would become a possibility in five years time, but we have to try to do our part to find any way we can to keep our sanity in check so that when we look back in time or past down stories to the children of the future regarding how this decade proved to be superior to the other decades in the past, we can leave ourselves with a smile and a laugh and say to them “If you want to know what the 2020s were like, there may have been more downs than ups, but we managed to persevere no matter what obstacle was in our way because not only did we choose to become more kind and understanding of one another, we also were not afraid to make our voices heard, much more so than all of the other decades in history prior, and that’s the most important lesson we want to teach you all!” And what a great lesson to teach those children of the future indeed; That way, there would be very few bullies, which means very few cowards. While at it, those children of the future might want to get checked for COVID!

 

            All in all, COVID is far from over, and there are still wars going on and more corrupt politicians still present, plus more and more people just simply being not nice or less informed about what’s really going on in their world, so make sure you wear a mask and wash your hands so you don’t get sick, and don’t be a deer in the headlights! We’ve been deer in the headlights so many times in the past due to a lack of interest in politics and social issues at the time, as well as not enough awareness of diseases such as AIDS, the Ebola virus, and the Zika virus compared to COVID-19, but not in this decade! You’ll never know when any of those things would eventually come back and bite you in the end, so please make sure that not only you do stay informed about what’s going on in the world (in case we truly end up going through another pandemic due to people caring less about their health as much as others, maybe regarding bird flu, not to jinx anything), but also, unless you live in a country like Russia or Belarus, that you are voting! It’s the single most important responsibility for any single decent person living on this planet Earth! If not, if we have people who won’t do their part, then the entire world as we know it would be overrun by ruthless dictators, with us as citizens becoming merely minions, and not the funny-looking nonsense-speaking yellow-colored ones! That, or we all end up sick and die in the same way as the Black Death! What’s that, you say? A world filled with Gians (Gian being the bully character from Doraemon)? I guess that’s a possible worst-case scenario, but then again, if two or more Gians end up fighting because one pissed off another, they’d all lose!