I once assumed that small incremental environmentally conscious steps in how people lived, worked, and played were inevitable. I'm talking smaller, more energy efficient, and safer vehicles, vegetable protein substitutes in place of industrialized meat products becoming generally accepted and even the norm, and I even had naive presumptions about some imminent expansion of mass transportation because it simply made more economic sense.
But that was all before I learned the power of 
That there would be any kind of real response to COVID. I took it seriously the moment it entered the US because it showed how infectious it is. Was taking precautions the moment it did and was fine with my semester being cut in half for the lockdowns. For all the BIG GUBMINT conspiracies of the past 20 years on the right, when given a perfect opportunity to respond to a crisis the US pretended to care for a few weeks and then threw the workers to the wolves for treats. It was a big moment of jokerification when I realised how little would actually be done and that the only alternative to Trump was the party ratfucking the only candidate who wanted to give me healthcare during the biggest pandemic in a century.
I still have this saved from back then and it pretty much sums up how I thought things were going to go
Close, except it's "See? It wasn't so bad! We overreacted!" on the red line.