By Suzanne Sparrow Watson
Once in a while that great wasteland of Facebook has a pretty spot on post. I have always “written from scratch” but this was too good to pass up so I’m sharing it today. Unfortunately I don’t know the author but it’s obviously someone with a pretty good sense of humor!
Dear Diary 2020 Edition,
In
️ January,
Australia caught on fire. I don’t even know if that fire was put out, because we straight up almost went to war with Iran 🇮🇷 . We might actually still be almost at war with them
. I don’t know, because
Jen Aniston and
🏻 Brad Pitt spoke to one another at an awards
show and everyone flipped the crap out
, but then there was this thing happening in 🦇 🇨🇳 China, then
Prince Harry and Megan
🏼 peaced out of the Royal family, and there was the whole impeachment trial
⚖️, and then corona virus 🦠 showed up in the US ✔️“officially,” but then
Kobe died
and UK 🇬🇧 peaced out of the European Union.
In February,
Iowa crapped
itself with the caucus results and the president was acquitted and the
🏼
Speaker of the House took Ten. Whole. Years. to rip up a speech , but then The
WHO decided to give this virus a name COVID-19, which confused
some really important people
in charge of, like, our lives, into thinking there were 18 other versions before it, but then Harvey Weinstein was found guilty
🏻⚖️, and 🇺🇸 Americans started asking if Corona beer
was safe to drink🤦🏻♀️, and everyone on Facebook became a doctor
⚕️ who just knew the
flu killed way more people than COVID 1 through 18.
In March, stuff hit the fan
. Warren dropped out of the presidential race and Sanders was like Bernie or bust
, but then Italy 🇮🇹 shut its whole country down
, and then COVID Not 1 through 18 officially became what everyone already realized –
a pandemic – and then a nationwide state of emergency
was declared in US 🇺🇸 , but it didn’t really change anything, so everyone was confused or thought it was still just a flu
🏻♀️, but then COVID Not 18 was like ya’ll not taking me seriously?
I’m gonna infect the one celebrity everyone loves and totally infected Tom Hanks
🏻, get y’all to close all of the schools so y’all can
🏼 appreciate teachers
for once (because you can’t teach them anything other than how to use a touch screen🤦🏻♀️ ) close down all of salons so you can’t get your
♂️ hair or your nails done
, everyone had to work from home and attend Zoom meetings in their underwear. The
DOW took a crap
on itself, and most of us still don’t understand why the stock market is so important or even a thing
(I still don’t), We were then all introduced to 🐅 Tiger King and the ONE thing we can all agree on this year ,
🏼Carol totally killed her husband⚰️ ….. whacked him! And then Netflix was like you’re welcome, and we all realized there was no way we were washing our hands enough in the first place because all of our hands are now dry and gross and we’re all searching for lotion.
In
April, Bernie finally busted
🏼 himself out of the presidential race
, but then NYC
became the set of The Walking Dead
and we learned that no one has face masks
, ventilators, or toilet paper, or THE FREAKING SWIFFER WET JET LIQUID , and by now our
outgrowth is showing, so there’s a shortage on
box hair dye and all of our hair dressers are like ,
NO DONT DO IT!!! But, then Kim Jong-Un died, but then he came back to life … or did he? Who knows, because then the Pentagon released
videos of UFOs and nobody cared, and we were like man, it’s only April….
In
May, the biblical end times kicked off , historical locust swarms, we learned of murder hornets
and realized that 2020 was the start of the Hunger Games
however people forgot to let us know. People legit started to protest lockdown measures with
AR-15s,
️sports events were cancelled everywhere. But then people all over America finally reached a breaking point with race issues and violence. There were
protests in every city
,which was confusing to some of us because people were definitely gathering in
crowds of more than
🏼🤚🏼10 and for sure closer than 6 feet away ⬅️➡️from each other. Those people must have forgotten about the
pandemic called COVID Not One Through 18. Media
struggled with how to 🤬focus on two important things at once, people in general struggle to focus on more than one important thing. A dead whale
was found in the middle of the Amazon rain forest
after monkeys
stole COVID 1 Through 19 from a lab
and ran off with them, and either in May or April (no one is keeping track of time now) that a giant asteroid ☄️ narrowly missed the Earth
.
In
️ June, common sense just got thrown 🤾🏼 straight out the window and somehow
wearing masks became a
political thing, but then everyone sort of remembered there was a pandemic, then
scientists announced they found a mysterious undiscovered mass at the center of the earth, and everyone was like
🏽♂️
🏻♀️
DON’T YOU DARE TOUCH IT, but then everyone took a pause to realize that people actually believed Gone With The Wind
was non-fiction, but then it was also announced that there is a strange
radio signal coming from somewhere in the universe
that repeats itself every so many days
, and everyone was like
DON’T YOU DARE ATTEMPT TO COMMUNICATE WITH IT‼️
but then America reopened
🏼from the shut down that actually wasn’t even a shut down, and so far, things have gone spectacularly … not that great
🏼. All of the Karen’s came out at once, and people started tearing down
statues. Everyone is on Facebook arguing 🤼♀️ about masks
🏼, but then Florida
was like hold my beer
and let me show you how we’re number one 🥇 in all things, including new Not Corona Beer Coronavirus. Then we learned there was a massive dust cloud
️ coming straight at us
from the Sahara Desert
, which is totally normal, but this is 2020, so the
ghost mummy thing is most likely in that dust cloud. We then
learned of meth-gators
, and I’m like that is so not on my flipping 2020 Bingo card
can we use it as the free space?? 🤷🏻 Then we learned that the Congo’s worst ever Ebola
outbreak is over
, and we were all like, there was an Ebola outbreak that was the worse ever?
… and don’t forget we just discovered FLYING SNAKES!
, seriously! FLYING SNAKES!!!!
So here comes July…. at this point we are over it , just tell us what’s next …
Aliens?
Zeus? ☄️ Asteroids? Artificial Intelligence becomes self aware? Can it just be something cool
or fun for once? Maybe even a good laugh , like hahaha
April Fools! We all actually wouldn’t mind that joke at this point.
Also, why didn’t I know about the whale in the Amazon? Or a few other things because I just can’t keep up anymore!
BTW, a squirrel with Bubonic plague was found in CO… because, you know, it’s 2020.