Take me back to the good old days!
Indigo Craane, Staff Writer
While students are now stuck in the throes of the late-stage pandemic, they have finally grown to miss the early days of the coronavirus: March 2020.
Oh, two years ago was just bliss. Forget about the empty streets, the toilet-paper shortages or the menial task of disinfecting groceries. We are not talking about that. We’re busy reminiscing on the first days, weeks even, of quarantine, where the pandemic felt like a twisted novelty.
Schools were closed until further notice and there was finally ample time to scroll through TikTok. It was the era of prime TikTok trends: Whipping together sugar, instant coffee, a little bit of warm water and then laying that fluffy topping over milk. Whipped coffee, was it? It is also hard to forget Doja Cat’s “Say So” with how much it haunted the For You page. Everyone and their mother was busy dancing to that disco-infused pop track.
The real pandemic was how many people were hopping in on the exercise craze back then. We’re talking about Chloe Ting’s two-week shred challenges. The griphold that her videos had on young, impressionable teens who were just sick of making banana bread and watching the Netflix original “Tiger King” all day. Many teens fell victim to her videos, all under the idea that they were going to get abs in two weeks. False alarm, they didn’t— Maybe because they gave up after the first three days.
“I don’t know if it was the isolation getting to my head or just binge-watching all of ‘Tiger King,’ but I lowkey liked Joe Exotic,” Adin Freedman (’23) said.
Not to mention, but the long-anticipated “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” had just come out. Why go on a socially-distanced walk outside when you can spend hours cuddling up to your Nintendo Switch, trying to make progress on that loan you owed Tom Nook. Oh, it was just peak relaxation.
But skip forward to now and here we are, trying to get through the school day like zombies. Instead of hearing TikTok audios in the morning, we spend the early hours listening to construction outside. Instead of masking up to go on a walk, we take it off during class. Instead of whipped coffee, we have poor Starbucks next door trying to get through all of the orders made during lunch.
If only we can go back to the good old days.
