[Mezzie]

My hypothesis is that a lot of people were willing to work for the system when they believed the system could protect them from bad things. Covid upended this sense of security, since the system was not capable of handling it and/or guaranteeing protection, so people re-evaluated the social contract and whether promises to them were being met.

I also think that it kicked people in the pants and made them realize they had no idea how much time they had left. Confronting their own mortality made them realize what they actually wanted out of life.

It was weird for me to watch, because I was diagnosed with MS in 2016 and went through a personal version of that, just to come out the other side and watch everybody else have the same crisis.