Yes, people do need to take some personal responsibility, but also corporations engineering products that are unhealthy and addictive and marketers spending billions to convince people its good stuff... is not a great system.
Why does our environment need to be so adversarial?
Right, it's also important to remember that for many folk they still had to go into work everyday, they tend not to be the people that have time to blog and wax nostalgic on the glory days of the pandemic. (Not directed at you or the parent, just a comment)