Our COVID mental health reckoning ... or not?

The prevailing idea about "post-COVID" is that we'd see a big mental health decline, but that's something with more nuance than we realize.

I think sometimes about what would have happened if COVID took place at the same time in 2017, which is entirely possible because life, and global pandemics, are often random as hell. If this was three years ago, I would have been newly-divorced, living by myself for the first time in seven years, and in the process of losing most of my 20s/30s friend c…