The COVID-19 pandemic itself changed very little in my life.
The governmental overreactions to the pandemic, on the other hand, caused some of the most traumatic experiences of my lifetime and ultimately resulted in my son having vaccine-induced paralysis (Guillain Barré) followed by new-onset epilepsy, which ruined his skilled-trades career.
The experience of being isolated and imprisoned at home, enforced by police in body armor brandishing long guns, in a foreign country caused my husband to hallucinate.
The forced closure of elective medical offices forced me to endure the entire lockdown with a severe itchy, painful skin reaction over 30% of my body (to an arthritis drug) that no doctor could examine or treat.
The experience of being pregnant and isolated during the pandemic caused my daughter to develop hypertension and life-threatening pre-eclampsia.
The emergency use authorization of modified mRNA injections caused an unsafe product to be released and my adult son to take it, resulting in what appears now to be permanent neurological disability.