#99 — 2022 in One Word: Ignorance
This year my deaf ears and blind eyes paid attention
You might not have felt it, but like me, you’ve been living out the last 1003 days from inside a cage. If you can even call it living.
At first, our cages were just physical. Our governments kept us unwillingly inside our homes as they stuffed our screens with fear-mongering, and we responded by hoarding distraction, misinformation and excess toilet paper.
Our four walls soon became pig pens. We revelled in the squalor that we created out of our grim realities and blamed the outside world for failing us.
We swilled in our painful squeals while the powers that be drowned us out with their own agendas.
It taught me what man was capable of when pushed into a corner. The helping hands he bites in exchange for saving his own skin. He then added insult to injury by taking them beyond the point of exhaustion and then forcing them to live there.
But the NHS couldn’t pay their bills in claps.
It’s no wonder they ‘quiet quit’ us when our mental health needed them the most.
We were sitting in the thick of lockdown paralysis. It’s what I called it when lockdown stops me from thinking I needed to see a doctor about something unusual…
