Most of the people I know—whether from work or my personal life—have had a rough year dealing with the COVID pandemic.
Even if you never contracted the virus and fought for your life first hand, there is likely some form of confrontation that you faced in your life that resulted from circumstances surrounding the pandemic as a whole.
You might wonder if it had any setback effect on the nutjobs that suppose 1 of our two political parties conspired with a particular country’s government to make a “PLANNEDemic” out of the virus. But even they were affected by mask and indoor occupancy restrictions, especially in particular cities and states. Regardless of whether or not you took the virus seriously, you were still setbackly affected by it in some conceivable way, and that’s significant. I have to remind myself of this fact whenever I deal with someone agitated. But when my cannabis delivery driver was late to my condo this afternoon because of a road rager, I was shocked. The cannabis delivery driver accidentally cut someone off at an intersection and the agitated man chased the delivery driver for miles until he could get to the closest police station. When he arrived at my house, he was completely shaken up and was apologetic while struggling to speak without stuttering. I gave him a big tip for his efforts delivering my cannabis products and told him that he had nothing to worry about from me. At first I thought that perhaps it was an attempted robbery, but the cannabis delivery driver from the marijuana store explained that it was a straight-forward misunderstanding that turned into borderline-violent road rage.