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Originally Posted by nonightowl
Good points.  I see below I typed "teach" someone online but I meant "reach", lol. But I guess it's also a teaching moment, teach people how to behave.
Yeah I certainly will ask why did you give me your number if I get that bs again. Hopefully they'll think twice before doing it to anyone else. Maybe at the time they were sincere but changed their mind. In that case, they should hold off before they are more sure and not do it just to be polite. (If that's why they do it)
COVID did bring out the worst, as people got more selfish. We got divided over masks, vaccinations, etc. A public health crisis yet people still did what they wanted, not thinking of everyone else.
My unneighborly building got even more so when COVID hit. We're all sitting at home yet nobody talked to anyone (at a safe distance!).
I still remember that stupid slogan I heard over the PA system at the grocery store in 2020/2021, "We're all in this together." No, we weren't. Unless everyone thought that way, they were empty words. We were never "together", especially in this individualistic country. And every state did what they want, so no national solidarity for sure.
It's been a s h i t t y 3 years and this COVID thing was/is as bad as a traditional war. But battling a tiny virus and each other. No guns, not in THAT sense but in many others, sadly.
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Yep if someone was sincere at first but then they changed their minds, they should've waited. Same goes for inviting others to an occasion and secretly hoping they don't show up, it would be much better to just not invite the person. Yeah Covid really divided everyone, if you got Covid then that meant you did something you weren't supposed to do or didn't do something you were supposed to do and therefore suffer the consequences in the eyes of others. The paranoia got out of hand real quick, sadly I think left a permanent scar on everyone's mentality.