Hard to believe that was four years ago.
It was March of 2020 that we went into lockdown for the COVID pandemic. Hard to believe that was four years ago. How much has your life changed in those four years? A Reddit post asked: "What did the pandemic ruin more than we realized?”
TeeRoy's 2 Cents:
- “My perception of time hasn't really returned back to normal since then."
- "As a teacher, I can say that it’s definitely affected kids in a way people don’t realize. Kids who had their first year of school (or even second) during the pandemic act quite different than kids who had a normal introduction to school. Many of them seem to have fewer social skills and higher anxiety than kids from previous years."
- "The health system is wrecked. Way too many nurses got burnt out and left the profession."
- "Independent/smaller music venues never really recovered."
- "People’s ability to drive. Drivers are far more aggressive post-COVID, and even fewer people are using their signals."
- "Nothing is ever open late anymore."
- "It's like people are just more rude now for some reason."
- "My willingness to waste my life at an office when I can do the work just as well from home."
- "Feels like it’s a more 'to each their own' sense of living. People don’t appear to be as connected as before the pandemic."
- "Printed menus. Call me snarky, but scrolling through your phone at dinner, whether with family or on a date, stinks."
- "Family relations."
- "The belief that Americans are able to come together in a crisis and be willing to make sacrifices for the greater good. We’ll never trust each other again."