This information is based upon US studies, but it would be a sure bet that, given human nature, the same conclusion could be reached in other jurisdictions, such as Australia. It is hypothesised by psychologists that peoples’ memories of the lockdowns are now starting to fade. The main reason for this, apart from the fallibility of human memory over time, is that memory suppression is a psychological strategy for dealing with trauma, and most people, but not all, experienced considerable misery and pain during the lockdowns. They were meant to, as it was a manipulative strategy to force mass vaccination, and this was obvious from the proclamation, that if one got vaxxed, one could join society again. And, it worked. Australia is a prime example of this.
The vital issue now relates to the plandemic which is coming, which Bill Gates, and more recently, Dr Fauci, have warned about. Will people be condemned to repeat the past, out of sheer fear, once more, especially if the next virus, is a real killer? Who knows what will tossed out of the back of some bioweapons lab to terrorise the population once more?
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/people-forgetting-covid-pandemic-memories/story?id=97996741
“As the United States continues to open up, and fewer restrictions and mitigation measures remain in place, it's hard to imagine the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Much has changed from three years ago when workplaces and schools closed, businesses shuttered, and stay-at-home orders were enacted -- and even from two years ago when vaccines started rolling out and people began moving around again.
As we move into a new phase where COVID-19 is more endemic, many of these memories will fade with the passage of time and the constraints of how much our brain can hold, but experts say it's more than that.
Neuroscientists and psychiatrists told ABC News that we may also try to forget certain memories to protect ourselves from the trauma that we've been processing over the last three years.
Additionally, as vaccines and boosters become easy to access, reducing the number of hospitalizations and deaths, we may forget a time when more than 700 people a day -- in some states -- were dying of the virus.
"The brain creates these event boundaries when important things happen and so there may be some natural forgetting that's happening because people are putting a boundary between, say, the beginning of COVID and then whenever they consider to be a kind of a post-COVID phase," Dr. Kevin LaBar, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, told ABC News.
"And now that we don't have all the same visual reminders -- things like masking or social distancing or being on Zoom all the time -- so there's kind of a natural way in which the brain compartmentalizes things," he added.
How memories are formed
Different parts of the brain have different duties and responsibilities and, as people go through a variety of experiences, the hippocampus and the cortex play a role in forming memories based on those experiences.
"In any kind of situation, when we're learning new information, it's passing through our cortex," Dr. Sarah Clinton, an associate professor and associate director at the Virginia Tech School of Neuroscience, told ABC News. "Our cortex is what's paying attention to the information. It gets passed to the hippocampus, where it sort of gets sorted and filed."
Over time, the hippocampus files the memory, which Clinton likened to putting a book on a shelf.”
That is all good to know, but the real question now, is whether I will remember any of this tomorrow?