You Won't Remember the Pandemic the Way You Think You Will

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5. I think this stuff is way overblown

Maybe because the media isn't good at reporting science? I don't know. Our memories may not be like video recorders, but that doesn't mean they're always entirely unreliable cotton candy fluff, either. I was able to locate an old apartment building we lived in when I was around 4 years old on Google Earth while only knowing the general area it was located in, a place I hadn't visited since, using my memory of landmarks. This wasn't based on pictures I'd seen or stories I'd been told. These were mundane things like the grocery store, gas stations we drove by, every day normal trips we took. I verified that it was indeed the building we lived in by taking a screenshot of the street view and confirming it with my mother. That wouldn't have been possible if I hadn't been able to accurately recall anything in my past.