A Boomer and GenXer Walk into a Bar
Wit and wisdom, some smart assery, and a Mother and Daughter questioning “Are we even related?”
A Boomer and GenXer Walk into a Bar
Pandemic Perspectives - We Got Bamboozed, How it Changed Everything and Nothing S:1E:40
The COVID-19 pandemic upended our world in unprecedented ways, and in this raw, unfiltered conversation, mother-daughter duo Jane and Bobbi share their personal journey through those turbulent times.
When the world locked down, the world found itself navigating conflicting information, employer vaccine mandates, and bizarre societal responses like the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. They candidly discuss the "traveling papers" essential workers carried, which felt uncomfortably reminiscent of historical periods of government control. As Bobbi reveals, "That kind of shook me," highlighting how pandemic measures crossed lines many Americans found troubling.
The economic devastation receives particular attention, as the hosts reflect on how corporate giants continued operations while countless small businesses permanently closed. "Every closed door represented a family," they note, pointing to financial hardships that many have never recovered from years later. Meanwhile, social connections fractured under the strain of different risk assessments and vaccination choices.
Despite the serious subject matter, the conversation maintains moments of humor, particularly when discussing pandemic absurdities like people driving alone in cars while masked or the origins of toilet paper hoarding. Their practical takeaway? Wash your hands, respect personal space, and invest in a bidet – because pandemic or not, these remain solid life advice.
Email us at boomerandgenexor@gmail.com with your feedback or personal pandemic stories – we promise to respect your anonymity if requested.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome everyone to today's show. Boomer and Gen X are walking to a bar, coming to you from the rabbit hole studio, where you, as our listeners, will experience some wit and wisdom, some smart assery, and this mother and that daughter questioning. Are we even related? My name is Jane and my co-host is my daughter, bobby, and for the next several minutes we are here to entertain you. How, how are you doing today?
Speaker 2:bobby, I'm doing good today.
Speaker 1:It's uh raining but it's getting nicer yeah, and we needed the rain too, that's for sure people, we really needed this rain for the crops and for actually for my garden. Thank you very much, okay well, those are crops you know the same flowers and stuff like that. So, um, what's new pussycat?
Speaker 2:whoa. Do you know that song? Do I know that song? Who's saying it? It was in the jukebox all the time who, who sang? It.
Speaker 1:Elvis Presley, tom Jones Okay, here we go, and a boogie-woogie bugle boy too, oh I can sing that.
Speaker 2:No, you cannot. No, you can't.
Speaker 1:Well, I can. I know all the words Kind of Kind of, kind of.
Speaker 2:Just don't know any of the tones and then it's like going into a tunnel. So, um, what's our topic today? Well, since you started to uh decide that you were going to be a world famous singer, let's talk about the time that everybody decided that they were going to be famous online because we were stuck in our houses, oh yeah we are going to talk about 2019, the end of 2019, the covid pandemic begins ouch.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, not a good time for us, that's for sure not at all, and so for our listeners, I'm sure everybody remembers If you're old enough to be listening to us, I hope you remember so the COVID-19 pandemic, also known as coronavirus and COVID. So it's caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome, coronavirus 2. Now begin with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, china, in December of 2019. Liar, put your political shit away, all right. So soon after it did spread to other areas of asia and then worldwide in early 2020, oh my goodness. So let's talk about this. Let's let's talk about a bunch of different aspects of this, from the, the shutdowns, to the, the vaccines, the, the just all out, just panic that everybody went through. But. But let's talk about it from our point of view, because you know we really can't do anything except say what we saw on tv, and you know most of that's bullshit well, and there's nothing we can do about the bad decision making that took place over that time period and what transpired.
Speaker 1:All we can do is say you know what were we doing and how did we handle it and how did it affect us. So I mean, obviously you know the vaccines and the actions that were taken to control the virus were kind of crucial roles in avoiding the spread of the virus and reducing any type of severe illnesses as much as it could. But you know, it's unfortunate because we just had so much misinformation out there that it was difficult for everybody. I personally was never an advocate for the shots For the vaccines. Yeah, I was never an advocate for the shots for the vaccines yeah, I was never an advocate for that.
Speaker 2:I was kind of on the fence because my deep down intuition was like this is too new. Yeah, these virus, you know, these vaccines have not been tested, they haven't had the long-term tests like other vaccines have had, and everybody's panicking so, and there was so much blame going around for every everything.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it's. I guess. I just didn't understand that part. You know, everybody wanted to make it political, personal revenge, hateful thing, and it's like look, people are dying, we're getting sick, let's, can we just stop for a minute? And unfortunately, the governments did make us stop for a minute because they put us under lockdown. On march 26 2020, 1.7 billion people worldwide were under some form of lockdown. Yeah, it increased to 3.9 billion people in the first week of april.
Speaker 1:That's more than half the world's population yeah, and and so what happened was obviously there were decisions made that you know you couldn't go out of your house, you couldn't go to work. Only essential workers, Only essential workers and what's an essential worker, right, right Can.
Speaker 2:I tell you what A gas station worker is an essential worker apparently.
Speaker 1:Hey, my mailman's an essential worker and I need a check. Exactly, so everybody to me, and, and we worked through the whole thing I worked in the energy business and we worked a lot of hours during that time period. We didn't have any choice. Now, right, what we were required to do was we had to separate ourselves from each other, so that was really difficult when you're trying to work with crews and get jobs done.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, because not everything can be done over a radio and it can't be done by one person. A lot of times it has to be done by multiple people in working in small spaces, and I think the worst part for me was probably the fact that I didn't mind going to work every day. That was fine by me, I didn't have anything else to do but it was really the fact that people were kept from their loved ones.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:That was the tough one. I guess we won't necessarily talk about whether we think it was right or wrong, because, again, there were a lot of bad decisions made, but there was a lot of bad information given out to us too. And had we had good information and everybody wasn't worried about blaming each other, maybe things would have turned out differently.
Speaker 1:But I will say this, and I didn't have any relatives that were in a home dying during that time period. But I will tell you this I would have gone to see them and I would have pulled them out of those nursing homes because if they're dying anyway, come on over to my house and you can die here with your family.
Speaker 2:So let me ask you did you have your traveling papers? I did. You were issued your traveling papers.
Speaker 1:I was and that kind of shook me where you were issued your traveling papers. I was that kind of shook me. Yeah, the reason I had everything was because my company required it. Right, I was still working at the time and mine did too, yeah, and so my company was adamant that you absolutely had to have your shots and you had to carry your papers and all that bold stuff, and I mean they were literally papers that say I am an essential worker, I am allowed to be in public or driving.
Speaker 2:That shook me. I'm going to tell you what you know as a history buff and you know somebody who actually enjoys nerding out over things. Reading those papers, that kind of shook me because it was like, first of all, they didn't have to word them like that, right okay, and second of all, I was just waiting for the patches on our coats that we would have to wear, saying that we were vaccinated, so we were allowed to walk to the store well, you had to carry papers, right, you had to carry your vaccinations and, um, let's face it, there was a lot of hate.
Speaker 1:I mean mean just so much hate between people, I know even my friends. Oh, it tore people apart.
Speaker 1:It tore friendships of 30 years apart. Yeah, I mean, we had friends who said, hey, listen, you can come over and we'll do this outside, but don't come over if you didn't have your shots. Okay, that's cool, you can make that decision, it's your house. But then other people would get mad that you didn't even get the shot and it's like you know, again, I can't talk about this and not give my opinion. You know, I think it's your business whether you get the shot or whether you don't.
Speaker 1:Now, if you're sick, stay home, and I don't care what you got.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly whether you don't now, if you're sick, stay home and I don't care what you got yeah, exactly, that's the whole.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and, let's face it, what we actually learn out of this whole thing to wash your hands and stay six feet away from people. Thank you, scientists, for that. Other than that, nobody learned anything. True, wash your hands that is, on a regular basis, and stay six feet away well, you don't need to be in anybody's space anyway no, yeah, six feet is mandatory I would prefer 12.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and over there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, get away from me and because you got that, you got that anger issue going on I just don't like, I don't like strangers, stranger danger well, I don't like people getting into my space either, but you know, if you think about it, that is all we were taught out of the entire thing. What else did you learn nothing? Well, yeah, that is all we were taught out of the entire thing. What else did you learn Nothing?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, that is true. And let's talk about our experiences with the vaccine, since we touched on that. So we both had the vaccine we did. I took the vaccine because I was poor and my company said you get a bonus paycheck if you come and get the vaccine from our company and we will continue to allow you to work in our stores. What a crock of crap. If we didn't get it, we were not allowed to work anymore and we wouldn't get that bonus. So I mean, it was kind of it was almost like we all know that the people working in those in the stores that I used to work at, I mean they, they were working for bottom dollar, they were on paycheck to paycheck. Yeah, they couldn't afford to take off work, they couldn't afford to not get that bonus. So I think a lot of it was very um I think people were trapped.
Speaker 1:I think people were trapped in what their decisions were going to be.
Speaker 2:They were and I went and got it because I was one of those people in that situation and I got the shot that my company offered, which was the johnson and johnson vaccine, because it was one shot and it was done. Not even a month after that I find out that my vaccine has been recalled. Uh, for things that I'm actually at risk for, yeah, yeah, and it it's just part of the misinformation that was thrown out there, because they knew about it beforehand and they said, no, no, it's fine, it's fine. You know, if one in 20 people dies from a blood clot, so be it. You know we got 19 more, but you know that was my experience with it. My children, my older three children, did get the shot. They got the two series shot. They did that because the schools were starting to require it. Okay, and if I didn't get the shot for my kids and I didn't send them to school, I would end up in truancy court, okay, so it was another catch-22.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you were required to it was required for sports, anything that they decided to hold at that point. If you were not vaccinated, you were not welcome.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but they weren't even having sports right, Unless you were outside and you weren't touching anybody, they were yeah, I mean they were having very limited gatherings.
Speaker 1:And when the schools shut down, of course there was no school, but when they did start to open up there was not that option given for a lot of families and I just want to stop right here and say listen, we're not doctors, we're not scientists, we're not politicians, we're really nobodies that know nothing, and we just like to share our nothingness with everyone, because really, these are our experiences and how we feel about them.
Speaker 2:And what we went through and what we went through.
Speaker 1:yeah, and I'm not sure that Bobby agrees with what I say. I don't even know that we ever really talked about it.
Speaker 2:We touched on it a few times, but I had some differing, because you do have the germ issue and things like that. So you are more of uh, I don't know an activist when it comes to you know what. Basically, what we had to do for covid the masks, the, the, you know, cleaning hands, gloves, staying away from people, yeah, things like that. But I also know that you were not an advocate of these companies shutting down and putting these people out of work?
Speaker 1:I was not. Not, not by any stretch. Every closed door, whether it was during COVID or after COVID, every closed door represented a family Right, and every family was suffering from what was going on. And the decision makers are our government, who. You know how I feel about them anyway. Yeah, worst decision makers there are and, as it turns out, even our medical uh, professionals were the worst decision makers too.
Speaker 1:But you know, the fact is, is it? It was a pandemic. We were going to lose people. Um, it's not going to be the last pandemic we have in my lifetime, nor yours, no, and so I think people need to just understand. Listen, you have to make good decisions now. So the pandemic, for the most part, is getting little attention, and once in a while, you'll talk about a new strain or whatever, and somebody will bring it up, but right now, it's getting little to no attention media-wise, because it's not a political game right now, and all I can say is, again, this isn't going to be the last one. Take the steps you need to take right now. Quit waiting for the government or some bonehead to tell you to wash your hands or stay six feet away from somebody.
Speaker 2:Quit telling them to put duct tape over your vents to prevent the air from getting inside. Oh my, gosh.
Speaker 1:So I got the shot initially because my company required us to, because my company required us to, and so then I got. I will tell you, the planes were still flying during that time period and people said you need to stay home. Yeah, and I was wearing my stupid ass mask. I have a mother and just in the stupidest situations and people would, but it's panic. It's panic because you don't understand and because you're not getting the right information.
Speaker 2:And how many times I mean just me and you. Our experience is how many times did you get covid? I got it three times.
Speaker 1:I got it three times yeah, and and it was bad. I mean, it was bad, my, my second one was really bad. Yeah, and one of the things that I had told you kids initially. Uh, just from reading everything, because covid isn't new no, covid 19 is new, but it's the strain, it's the strain right, and one of the things I said to you is if I get it so bad that I have to go in the hospital, do not let them put me on a ventilator right they can put me on oxygen, but do not put me on a ventilator.
Speaker 1:For the love of god, do not let them do that. And I also said when, if you get it, sleep setting up, yep, and that's what we did. And I found on your back and I said you know, even though you're not going to feel like getting up and walking around, I need you to get up and walk around. Yeah, and so we did that and, to be honest, I think that's probably what kind of saved us, because I had it really bad the second time. Yeah, and I'm old and I've got you know. I mean, I was at risk, yeah, and I have autoimmune disorders. I did just fine.
Speaker 1:Now, it may have been because I was in good shape and I was strong and whatever else, but you guys did too. And we kind of followed a regime. We were like, okay, if this happens to you, make sure that there's, you know you do this, make sure you do this, make sure you do this. And we weren't really depending on somebody else. We were kind of walking through it and saying, well, it makes sense to us. I did end up getting the booster. That was because I was traveling at that time and people would go oh my god, you're traveling and I'd go. Yeah, and that's the best time to be traveling, because there wasn't but three people in the airport every time I flew and there couldn't have been more than three people on a plane.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was like this is the best I would have went had I been able to and they handed you these little wet wipes which I love of course and I had my little spray with me and it was like this is the best time to be traveling.
Speaker 1:I was traveling all over hell and back during that time period because I thought I don't have to have some bonehead breathing all over me right coughing on me. I got nothing.
Speaker 2:It swelled itself out it was great and a lot of, but a lot of people did panic and I mean rightfully so with the information they were given. Now let's talk about. I don't know if you know what led to this, but do you remember the first, when it first started happening, the toilet paper panic?
Speaker 1:oh my goodness do you know how? That started because I know exactly how?
Speaker 2:do you know how and why it started? Let's go with it all, right, I don't know. So stupid americans are watching overseas news and see that australia is under a shortage of paper products like toilet paper. Now, somewhere in our two brain cells that we share as americans, we rubbed them together and said, oh my god, they're running out of toilet paper. We need 53 packs of toilet paper for the two of us, just to make sure we can wipe our asses through this. What they didn't realize, we ran out of toilet paper.
Speaker 1:During that time period, I had to scoot across the lawn.
Speaker 2:Oh, just go to the gas station and steal some, it's fine. But you know, and, and we see this and we're like, oh my god, this you know. Toilet paper is like the new gold. What we, as americans, didn't realize is that australia is a huge import country. They get 99% of their paper products from China. The reason they were having a paper shortage is because they had shut down trade to China because of the virus had nothing to do with their factories or anything. We make toilet paper in the United States folks, I mean read the package.
Speaker 2:Okay, we didn't have that issue until the americans go oh my god, I gotta wipe my butt for the next five years and they go out and they panic by this stuff, not realizing we can make more. Just buy what you're gonna regularly use and there's not gonna be this issue now in australia yeah, it was a shit show, man, I feel for them, because they had to fight for every inch over there. But here we have our own factories and a lot of this panic buying. That's what happened. We have our own factories, we're making our own stuff. These idiots out here think we're importing everything. No, right, yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 1:And again it really kind of gets back to so much misinformation and who you were listening to and you know I really when I'm researching stuff I like to look at the actual reports. I don't listen to local news, I don't listen to the national news. I don't really pay any attention to that. If somebody is saying, oh, so-and-so said this, I want to see what was said on the Senate floor.
Speaker 3:I want to see what the actual research.
Speaker 2:I don't trust the Senate floor.
Speaker 1:Well, I want to know what the research actually said, and usually you can get some of that information Right.
Speaker 2:you can get research papers directly from them.
Speaker 1:And so you know, the more you read it was like what the hell? Yeah, where are these people getting this information to?
Speaker 2:pass around type of thing yeah so what'd?
Speaker 1:you say dr domain.
Speaker 3:I didn't say anything you said get a bidet, oh, get a bidet, yeah, oh those were skyrocketing and and people buying them now people don't want to go back, so I know so
Speaker 1:there's nothing better so yeah, we had one at the Georgia house, the previous Georgia house. I had two of them. Had two of them, yeah, and I was like oh, this is like old people stuff right here, you know. Oh, no they are nice.
Speaker 2:After I gave birth they have them in the hospital, in the bathrooms usually, and I'm just like I'm in heaven.
Speaker 3:Nice this is the best thing that's ever happened to me, yeah I think the first, the first indicator I got that we were being scammed on this whole thing was when I was looking at the data that was coming out of john hopkins, which you would expect to be a reputable source of right, you would think um, I started noticing a trend after probably a couple months, where they would track statistics of fatalities yes, not even knowing definitively if it was due to the coronavirus.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 3:But they took a swing at it and they provided this data Every Sunday. No one died. It was crazy that was the Lord's Day. That was the day of rest. Yeah, so you know, I think this is going to go down in history as one of the biggest scams.
Speaker 1:We got bamboozled.
Speaker 3:But you know, I want to say, because I think it was the largest example of government overreach, infringement of our rights, I think it was a test.
Speaker 2:I really do. I think it was a test on how we would react. I think it was blown out of proportion.
Speaker 3:This was not the big pandemic.
Speaker 1:There were much larger pandemics out there, that will be coming. Yes, well, there was the Black Death yeah.
Speaker 2:We still have the plague.
Speaker 3:The Spanish Flu killed more people and there were even less people on the planet at that time, and AIDS has on the planet at that time and and um, aids has killed more people, you know. So this is not. This is not all. Uh, that they, that they trumped it up to be to me it was.
Speaker 1:It was nothing but a political battle. That was all it was. I'm gonna blame you. You discovered this. Oh, it happened under your watch. Oh my gosh, you've got misinformation coming out. Oh oh, who did this? Who did that? Which side did they belong to? And it really just gets to a point where you know, are you really interested in the people or are you just wearing that banner that you're raising real high? You know, because you really need to be worried about Americans, as opposed to what party you are, and quit being a pawn to that particular political party.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm not saying that there weren't consequences to this.
Speaker 1:Oh.
Speaker 3:I think we waited too long to fully disclose the origins of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:It looks. You know from what I've read and what I've heard, it originated in Wuhan, in some wet market, probably someone licking a bat or whatever the hell they were doing.
Speaker 2:Pretty much.
Speaker 3:Putting one in their butt.
Speaker 2:Honestly, I think it was a test. I think it was another experiment. Yeah, just to see what would happen if it really was bigger than this, because they got a lot of data from us. Yep, they realized how freaking stupid we are.
Speaker 3:But the most disturbing thing that I've heard so far in y'all's conversation is the fact that, bobby, you got bribed. Yes, you did. You got bribed, yes, you did. You got bribed I did, and that to survive, just to survive yeah, because they're dangling a job over your, over your head, and a bonus. You gotta have the money. And where does it stop?
Speaker 2:yeah, you know, that's why I think it was a test, it was another experiment. It was a basically a worldwide tuskegee experiment and they got a lot of data from us. They got a lot from us as human beings, not only in america, across the world on what's going to happen, how are they going to handle it, what if they do this? How easily can we convince these people right of what we say when they are in?
Speaker 1:panic mode. Right, exactly, and I I totally agree with that. And the other thing is is they're still collecting data, but it's not stuff that they're sharing with us, that's the whole thing is if you think the eight o'clock news or ten o'clock news is sharing data, they're just trying to get ratings. They're not.
Speaker 3:They don't give a rat's ass yeah, I don't mean to sound like a conspiracy theorist, because no, bring it. We are your job, that's my job, that's right I don't want to put it out of work, but, um, yeah, I think that's true. There's a certain amount of information that we're not getting, yeah, a lot of misinformation, and I think, I do believe, there's probably a group out there and it's albeit small that is trying to get the information to us.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it's coming from different channels.
Speaker 3:We in the past expected it to come from mainstream media, because they were the source.
Speaker 2:Right, the big three-letter type of source, the trusted source, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:But now we're finding that they're losing their credibility. And now people are grasping for real news and trying to find out well, what, what actually did happen?
Speaker 2:and a lot of it is social media too, because we're we're allowed to go live garbage and show what's going on where we are. When you know the news has the camera pointed the other way right, right, and there was just so much hate on social media oh yeah, there was hate everywhere. Did you get a?
Speaker 1:shot. No, you didn't get a shot. Oh my God, you should be put to death.
Speaker 2:You're a child abuser if you don't get your kids these shots.
Speaker 1:It was just crazy how much hate was going on. It's like wait a second. You know.
Speaker 3:Any other time you say my body and now, all of a sudden, it's not right, it's not my decision anymore, right? I think it was proof to show how weak and spineless the american population is.
Speaker 2:I don't think it's just. I don't want to say that.
Speaker 3:I don't want to say that about my own country, but I think there's some truth to it more countries than america yeah I'm just looking at it from our perspective, but through the lens of being american, looking at fellow americans. It was like we just kind of bent over and took it so it's like it's the movie of bugs life.
Speaker 2:So it's a kid's movie, but it's, you know, thousands of ants versus a handful of grasshoppers. And these grasshoppers overpower these ants and make them believe what they want, right, make them serve them until they literally, you know, die of exhaustion, until the ants realize, hey, there's a lot more of us than there is of them, but that's what's going on in our government right now.
Speaker 2:It has been yeah this was one of the biggest, I think, shows of this system that people did not pay attention to, because they whipped them up in a panic so bad and they were. People were in panic mode, they were in survival mode, and some of them still are. Oh, absolutely. And so, speaking of media, though, is there a media source that you trust above the others? Specifically, no.
Speaker 1:There isn't right now, not for me there isn't Okay. I think that whoever you're listening to can sway you. It has one way of swaying than another. I kind of just take it in and I go does that sound right? Let me look at that.
Speaker 2:See I'm weird. So I get American news from Al Jazeera TV and BBC. Basically I do listen to BBC. When it comes to American news they don't really have a huge you know dog in this fight.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they don't have a biggest reason to lie.
Speaker 2:Yeah and so yeah.
Speaker 1:Al jazeera tv was my go-to for a lot of what was going on so what was, what was some of the, what were some of the detriments during that pandemic I talked about about, you know, we had the nursing homes where they wouldn't even let you in to see your the hospitals, the hospitals. Nursing homes Also funerals.
Speaker 2:They wouldn't even let you get together for funerals.
Speaker 1:I was like are you on crack? Nope Funerals.
Speaker 2:Births. Okay, what the father can't? The woman has to give birth alone.
Speaker 1:And to give birth alone and it's like what in the hell is going on? How traumatic is that? How traumatic is that? It's terrible. And then, but you know we had and and don't get me wrong I do have some feelings for people who said, oh, my kid didn't get to go graduate, walk across the stage or that's tough though that is, that's a pivotal point in a child's growth and development.
Speaker 2:It is, you know, we did. We had a lot of kids that went into either college or high school, or even middle school or the military, any of it. And for four or five years they couldn't see other people.
Speaker 2:They had to do everything online, they had to isolate, they had to stay away from other people, and they were raised in this environment of social isolation. Yeah, how do you expect someone who is learning to be an adult to spend four years in social isolation and then come out, okay, I don't think we did a good job of handling that psychologically, by any stretch there wasn't, there was no psychological handling of it, because I don't think they gave a shit.
Speaker 2:No, I mean, we're dealing with the aftermath, because we have to deal with it, but there was no, there was nothing put in place to try to, you know, avert these medical issues, these psychological issues that were going to come up. And because we knew about it.
Speaker 1:We knew about it from other things that had happened and I will say that you know, obviously I'm not the sensitive type. So when it comes to a lot of the things that did happen, I kind of have that buck-up attitude.
Speaker 1:That's why I'm undiagnosed. Yeah, but I kind of have that buck-up attitude. You know, when somebody says, oh, my kid didn't go here or whatever, you know I'm kind of a buck up. You know, back in the day, you know, look how many kids graduated and walked across the stage to get to Vietnam. You know that's where they went for their senior trip.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but it wasn't fair for them either. No, it was apples and oranges, absolutely. Absolutely, but I'm just saying that you know when I think about, yeah, when I think about.
Speaker 1:You know what was hurtful, I think, the number of closed doors, the number of mom and pop stores that went under. They sure as hell didn't close down Wells Fargo. They didn't close down any of the big corporations. Black Rock was still going, vanguard was still going. All of these people were still having board meetings, they were all running their shows, but all these mom and pop places had to shut down. Every door was a family and that's what you did to the American people, not just the American people, a lot of people.
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, because it was a trickle-down effect. You have not only the owners of the store, you have the distributors.
Speaker 1:Now they have to put out half of their workforce and to think that somebody can recover from that. And then you look around and you go oh, all those buildings are empty and they have been since COVID. Or somebody lost their house, or these people lost their house. Yeah, all these houses in foreclosure and these families are homeless now and a lot of these families still just have never recovered financially, never, never recovered financially. Know, you look and you say who did that? To us, the government did?
Speaker 2:yeah, they did. They forced us, they didn't give us a choice as the people. They forced us into this corner and it was I mean, it was a survival mode. It was, you know, do or die out there for a lot of people, because I know a lot of people that lost everything.
Speaker 1:And the ridiculousness of the stuff. Oh, if you wear two masks, oh God.
Speaker 2:I couldn't even breathe in one. You're talking to a fat girl.
Speaker 1:It would be better if you wore two masks or if you wear a face shield. I remember going to a gas station. I was pumping my gas and when you're outside, what the hell? Yeah, and I wasn't wearing a mask, and I wouldn't, you know I I was, I was complying with I want to breathe with.
Speaker 1:You know everybody's requirements. Do you need to wear a mask? Okay, I'll play the game. I'll do that. But I was outside pumping my gas and this other lady was behind me and she was pumping her gas and she goes where's your mask? I'd have been like bend over and I looked at her and I go what she goes, where's your mask? You're supposed to be wearing a mask. I go doesn't yours work? You know you're wearing that to protect you. I don't need you to protect me.
Speaker 1:And the things that irritated me about the masks were one people driving alone in their own vehicle, with the windows up, with the mask on oh for the love of God or outside walking.
Speaker 2:Look people, for the love of God. And two, the ones that would wear the mask below their nose that only covered their mouth. I'm like, do you know how breathing works? Like, did you take an anatomy class in high school? Did they cut this out? And it's just ridiculous.
Speaker 1:So we have pictures of our family. I believe it was Easter when we illegally gathered?
Speaker 2:Well, we didn't, though.
Speaker 1:Because we all wore masks and we were at the house, but we were illegally gathered.
Speaker 2:We were, because it was more than six people we had pictures of us all separated up, you know, out in the yard.
Speaker 3:What.
Speaker 1:What Huh?
Speaker 3:What do you mean illegal?
Speaker 2:You couldn't gather more than six people at a time in a gathering and they had to be outside and they had to stay six feet apart and we were outside.
Speaker 1:We were outside.
Speaker 3:We had masks on all that crap stupidest yeah, notice the difference.
Speaker 1:Oh, go ahead, finish. No, go ahead, no, I noticed.
Speaker 3:I noticed the difference like, um, like the state of georgia was handled it quite differently than like california and some of the other states, because there were some differences there, like school reconvened much quicker oh, yeah, yeah yeah, the whole mass thing that just kind of got brushed aside. For the most part we had someone visit from, I think it was California or something like that, and they're like, why come? No one's wearing a mask?
Speaker 2:Well, because, we don't buy into that. We're living our lives we're living our lives.
Speaker 3:We're born free.
Speaker 2:That damn pandemic can't handle us down here.
Speaker 1:And it, that damn pandemic, can't handle us down here, we'll run that out of town, we'll get down to county. And again, we're not doctors and we're not trying to start any arguments here. We're just really talking about how it affected us and we're not scientists.
Speaker 2:But we had to live through it too Right, and we have a heap of understanding and just everything for the people who did lose loved ones because it was an absolutely horrific thing, absolutely to not only have someone who you are losing to the virus, but you can't even go tell them goodbye, right, and we, how horrible we.
Speaker 1:We lost good friends.
Speaker 2:We did.
Speaker 1:There's no doubt about it and it's a sad situation and you know again, there, about the grace of God, go you and I, because it could have been, us Could have been. It wasn't and we're thankful for that. But you know again, get ready for the next one, folks. Yeah, because the government needs another subject. They need more information.
Speaker 2:They need more info that they will never tell us.
Speaker 1:It's a bogus thing, so get ready for it, and just you know do your Wash, your damn hands. Wash your hands and stay out of people's space.
Speaker 2:Quit blowing your nose in public and get a bidet, and get a bidet, and get a bidet.
Speaker 2:Invest in a bidet, yeah so what do you think, bobby? I think that that is all the insanity, uh, that we have for today. We appreciate you joining us here at the rabbit hole studio. Be sure to follow us, because we look forward to spending time with you each and every week. Please like us, and if you have positive feedback for us, or if there's a topic you want to discuss, or if you have your own story that you just want to tell us and not tell the rest of the world, hey, drop a short email at boomerangenexor at gmailcom. You can tell us that you don't want us to say anything on the air and we will totally respect your anonymity.
Speaker 1:She said that without scurrying it on me. I didn't know that we should do that.
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