> Well, I'm not sure who forgot COVID, but elements of this are absolutely true.

That it happened, perhaps not, but some of the details are definitely getting lost in the collective memory. The other day I heard a political commentator claim that lockdowns in the states were in place for “years”, which is false by any objective measure.

They lasted a year and a half or so on and off in Chicago. Maybe two, I forget exactly when the last one ended. So only a little exaggeration.

Was that a result of details being lost in memory, or moreso just a political commentator hyperbolically stretching the truth for some kind of, perhaps biased, political hot take?