A note to our listeners, this episode contains mentions of suicide.

I bet you remember the early months of COVID.

I sure do.

I remember the fear, the fear of a deadly disease going around.

I remember being afraid that I would get it and then die.

That people I loved would die.

And who knows when or if a vaccine would ever arrive?

I remember being in the house a lot, of course.

One of my kids was in college, and he had to come home, move back into his bedroom.

My other two were home all day instead of going to their school. Everyone was attending

school online, whatever that meant. And I remember thinking about what this all meant to mental health,

to everybody's mental health, as I do. I remember thinking that this was all messing us up and that even when or if we got back to going maskless in grocery stores, this was going to be with us for a while.

I was right about that.

I'll keep this PG.

COVID-F-R-S-up.

It's depression mode.

I'm John Moe.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here.

I'm glad you're here has some multiple meanings, as I've explained on the show before.

And there's a bonus meaning this week.

I'm glad you're here listening.

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