I was pretty much still indoctrinated at the time. I was dealing with severe depression and burnout at my job, so I didn't have the mental bandwidth to question what was going on. I was one of those leftists that never trusted anything that came out of the red team, so I wore a mask but never got COVID to my knowledge, and I got the first two vaccines, but I was starting to wake up by the time the booster came around.

It sucked to turn my worldview upside down and face the facts, but going down the bitcoin rabbit hole first made it easier.