Pumpkin Diary Entry 4

One of the most frustrating parts of this whole mess we find ourselves in is that for the first time in history we had the infrastructure and technology to ride out a pandemic with relative ease and with minimal death. I'm not saying losing your job is "easy", if that's something that happened to you, but in terms of meeting basic needs and maintaining some semblance of our normal lifestyles? We had it made in ways that maybe even 10 or 15 years ago weren't possible. Smart phones to quickly order groceries and take out from companies like instacart, grubhub, etc. Zoom/similar apps to work from home for office workers and for people to able to see the people they've had to stay distant from. You don't need to go to a video store or even redbox to rent a movie any more. Amazon, no matter how you feel about the company or how much they've taken over retail, they exist and have made it insanely easy to get things sent to you quickly and cheaply when all of those retail stores had to close. People in more rural areas that maybe don't have fast internet or access to some of these services wouldn't be affected by the infection spread like people in cities anyway. It's like 2020 was the year MADE for a pandemic. We should have just laughed it off, beat this thing within a couple of months, and been like "That's all you got 2020?!". It should have been the most convenient pandemic in human history. We HAD EVERYTHING WE NEEDED yet still a bunch of you fools couldn't handle that. Now 130,000+ people are dead (so far), and we're dragging this thing out into the fall while having national discussions about what an acceptable death-rate for infected school children might be.