Also contrary situation to those who are figuring out how to "get by": I saw more than one story of women about to commit suicide in the Texas situation, along the lines of "it's been hell I don't know how I made it through the last year, now this, we're burning our furniture to keep warm." If they do manage to make it through, what do they value the most next?

What do high school kids who are missing a crucial year of socialization want next? Etc. We're all pretending like this major world-changing pandemic isn't happening because it's too hard to grok the reality. People active on social media may be in more denial about that than people that don't participate much or not at all.

I do imagine that being in food lines has become a new normal to many when it was shocking to their ego at first  Suggests the idea of basic minimum income is not anathema to as many as it used to be.

It is worldwide. Some of the people I follow on Twitter in the UK seem to be cracking from the latest lockdown. Lots of black humor to deal with it.