One of the things I'm cautious about as I play a PC in the world I created, but with a different DM, is that I don't want my character to end up being a DMPC^2
my conservative neighbor refers to covid as “That Flu” as in “____ also went to the hospital with that same flu that took out ____”
my more progressive friends refer to covid generically. as in “yeah I’m sick again” or “my cold turned into a bad cough” or “I’m the only one in my house who isn’t sick with what’s going around right now”
not only did we scrap masks and tests we legit scrapped the word covid