Welcome to the Great Regression
Between the return of coal and the retreat on vaccines, the US is looking backwards.
Heading backwards.
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Do you ever have those moments where you feel like you’re regressing as a functioning human being? There’s a pile of clothes that has sat in my bedroom corner for so long that I could charge it rent. A mug that I broke in October now sits on my living room shelf, mocking me from the couch. I’ve swiped up on a calendar reminder — BOOK DERM!! — so many times that my doctor probably thinks I moved to another state.