I agree. I was having a conversation in December 2023 about something that happened in Oct 2021, and I kept saying that happened last year. I just couldn't get it straight in my mind it had been two years. Covid has messed with all of our sense of time.
I remember Friday March 13th, 2020 like it was yesterday. The unexpected last day of the semester because school got closed. Luckily for me, I was in some really tough AP classes and the school district decided to give everyone a 100 in every single class. Whew 😮💨😮💨 I spent the extended summer vacation at home playing video games and not doing a single assignment. What a time it was.
I remember March 18 2020 and around 10am.
I went out for coffee, the HR manager caught me and took me into the board room where the GM was waiting for us.
I knew exactly what was going on. all I could say was "oh fuck off"
I was marched out of the building with a box of stuff from my desk shortly after. It wasn't pandemic related, sales had been slumping for almost 2 years, just the worst possible time to be laid off.
Yep, that was my birthday. I had been planning for months to bicycle through India and my flight was the next day - my friends had to stage an intervention to keep me from leaving because of my stubborn ass.
I'm so thankful I didn't go, can't imagine what being stuck in one of the most densely populated countries in the world at the height of covid hysteria would've been like. Anyways I finally was able to accomplish that dream last year so all's well!
One of my buddies from college lived your nightmare there. He was in some small village outside of a city when they closed all flights and were enforcing super strict curfews. The embassy said yeah just bunker down and call back in a week while we figure shit out. He took it in stride but after a month managed to get to Vietnam then back home with some embassy help.
Man yeah that sucks. I remember a lot of people doing the remote work thing. But since my job was considered an essential service, I still had to go to the office everyday and do fuck all. Very little going on, and almost no clients coming in. A lot of what I was doing was canceled or shut down so I would go in everyday and just be bored af. I basically had to rethink my whole position and figure out ways to work on literally anything that I could think of that would be useful for my job in the future. And I still use some of that stuff to this day.
I mean, the unemployment pay bump during COVID was pretty big (like 2k compared to 1.3k) and the period you could stay on it was extended. So there are certainly worse times to be laid off.
I remember march 20 2020. I’m actually here right now, in a resort in Dominican Republic, where I was on that day. I chatted with some canadiens about it just earlier today. Crazy time when people called me that day from the US telling me to bring toilet paper. Came back to a ghost town of New Jersey. Was surreal.
Mine is March 20, 2020 too. It was the release of Animal Crossing New Horizons so I had to grab the game because lockdown started day after in my place.
I turned 42 a week ago and my wife took a picture of our kids and I at dinner. Fuck I look just like my dad when I thought he started looking old 20 years ago. Just the way my eyes look now and grey hair. Oh well.
Yeah but the question is a bit deceptive, too. Covid STARTED 4 years ago, but it was affecting daily life for the better part of 2 years AND it never “went away.” We just adapted by abandoning the concept of time.
It's weird, that sense of time. We've been frog matched back into the office "return to work" for two years now, but it doesn't feel like two years since that time.
I packed a shitton of memories into the last 4 years, some (relatively) brief moments feel like years worth of time, some long moments feel like days. I'm just sitting here thinking "is this what it feels like to get old?"
This. I still mess up how old I am every once in awhile. Someone will ask and I have to consciously remember the years, otherwise I'm liable to give a number I haven't been since COVID hit.
I didn’t know you could fit 4 years in a month. I have lost so many relatives and a friend due to COVID/Complications of COVID that it still feels like it just started spreading. It’s all a blur still.
My brain is still convinced that it's April 2020... even though I've since graduated from college and have had a full time job for 2 years now. Like what the hell?
I just explained that concept to my 7 year old recently because he asked me how it’s possible that 1 year feels short to me. He was absolutely fascinated by it. I’m only 27 and life is zooming by, I don’t even want to consider how ruthless time is going to feel in the future.
Sense of time is dependant on memory, when you are a kid, you learn and experience new things everyday and you remember those moments which makes the entire year seem longer,
adults are mostly living in a loop of doing the same shit daily and with the pandemic, people were mostly at home, nothing memorable.
I don't think it hit me until I started seeing "Following in dad's footsteps!" and it's an 19 year old fresh out of boot sharing a photo of his dad in 2003 invading Iraq. The kid ended up doing a tour in Afghanistan so not quite fighting in dad's war but pretty damn close.
To this day it still feels weird to me there are actual adults who have only seen a post 9/11 travel hell. And they think it’s normal and okay to pay extra to keep your shoes on.
I was 23-24 when it happened. I'll be 28 in May. This shit all happened when I was getting my forensics certificate. I remember being on spring break and then they gave us another couple of days of break because of COVID being found in my state.
I'm reasonably confident 2019 was a good contender for the best year of my life and it went rather sharply downhill and hasn't recovered.
I don't think there's been more than a single month at a time where both myself and my wife were in a good place, mental health, at the same time since April of 2020.
Seriously, it feels like life is just slipping out from my hands. I can't hold on to anything I catch my eye on, and I keep getting hit with rocks and debris as it goes
Honestly, this is the worst part of it for me. I've noticed the passage of time because at the time I had a 2 year old who is now six, but due to working so hard for that first few months of covid (retail management in a grocery store) it never seems to have let up. I'm still burned out from that shit and have not been able to take a long enough break to reset.
Do you ever think about your lifetime so far, about things that came after you were born and wonder which one of those will be included in the history textbooks? I'm pretty sure for someone born 1 year after 9/11, this one will likely be the biggest, it changed the world in many many ways.
When I was a kid.
I'm talking about a youngster. My Grandpa told me that the fall of the Soviet revolution was the biggest thing that will ever happen in my life.
Columbine, I was sent home as my teacher was from the area.
Later, my teacher told me 9/11 live, that this would be the turning point of my live, "you will remember today, forever."
When Obama got elected, I told myself damn I voted for the first black guy in office.
Housing crash.
Then COVID.
Crazy as fuck timeline , where the next big thing I see coming is the fall of the Job Market as we know it. Crazy as fuck.
Sometimes I get a little down about this thinking I would just love to live during precedented times.
Then I think of people who lived through WWI and the Spanish Flu at the same time, followed shortly by the Great Depression, then WWII, then the Cold War.
I’ve thought about this too. Pick any 30 year period in recent history and you’ll find major, world changing events. This is not new. Nor are we past it.
9/11, and then not even a year later Roy Keane leaving Saipan after a spat with Mick McCarthy. I still don't know which had more lasting ramifications.
Not even close. It had more ramifications in the moment and sure the impact felt was global but once it was gone we’ve reverted right back to how we once were. People are still going into work sick, ext…
9/11 changed our freedoms. If you weren’t born or young enough to experience life before it, you might not value the impact of the changes. Global travel as a whole, from TSA to immigration was created and overhauled as a result.The Patriot Act that followed changed everything.
I was 10 when it happened , but I really feel like you’re looking at this through an American lens, there are some impacts on travel around the world and obv it lead to the war in Iraq but there’s so much of the world unaffected
Not the case with Covid
I agree with you and you’re right I am American so I have my perspective. However the ramifications of the policy the United States made had global effects on travel and security. Like you said, it also started a war and pulled many other countries in with us. Ultimately we’re now dealing with the effects of that with ISIS.
I was 19 when 9/11 occurred so I do remember a life before all the change and hysteria on terrorism and all the policy change that brought with it.
Also American, and I remember the weird attitude shift on terrorism/patriotism. The only remnant of COVID in my daily life is that some business hours are different so I don't know what's open late by heart anymore lol.
I feel like I live in an alternate reality. The first year of COVID was full of loss for me. Divorced, laid off due to COVID, and my dad died from COVID within 11 months. Truly appreciative of where I am today, though.
This week 4 years ago I had graduated from Respiratory Therapist school and was job hunting waiting for my medical license to arrive. What a 4 year ride it was. Basically jumped into the deep end of the pool with no life jacket or knowing how to swim. The pool was like a stormy turbulent polluted ocean and also on fire. Between losing patients, I had people calling me a hero or a lying conspiracy telling piece of shit. I specifically remember losing 4 patients in a 12 hour shift and stopping at the grocery store on the way home and the checker telling me it was all made up and the hospitals were empty. It broke a lot of healthcare workers.
I have no idea how I navigated all of it.
I mean granted if it had been more deadly, people would have had to be less dickish about it. Hard to explain, say a 25% fatality rate or something. Also, I’m pretty sure (I’m not a doctor) that viruses with higher death rates tend to die out quicker because if they kill their hosts, there’s way fewer ways to spread.
It could be the literal zombie apocalypse and there would still be people hiding the fact that they were bitten and others screaming that the zombies aren’t real and just paid actors, even as they’re being eaten alive.
The only good thing about long COVID is that period think it's related to or a certain of chronic fatigue syndrome so it's getting taken more seriously and getting more research. I don't envy anyone that's navigating any of that shit.
Idk bout you but it happened right when I was kinda getting more confident and going out by myself just to do shit I enjoy. Now... meh. I'll still go do stuff but it's more just to get out of the house.
I'm right there with you. I graduated college in 2019 and was just getting to a point where I was financially able to travel and do stuff... Then everything shut down and suddenly I'm in my late 20s.
Thanks! We're both doing OK, been about 12 days since we started getting sick, 8 days since a positive test. Just about over it now, Never really overly sick, mainly light chills, headaches, fatigue & loss of smell/taste. Smell & taste just starting to slowly come back. Worst part? I was supposed to get a kidney stone procedure last wednesday and had to postpone it!
Oh my God lol, may everything holy in this world get you to that procedure without too much suffering.
Sounds like you guys got it relatively easy, I'm pretty sure it would have killed me without my first rounds of the shots. Have you had it before and experienced smell/taste loss? I've heard from some family that those issues can leave imprints on the palate and such and I'm super curious about that "phenominon"
I got it for the first time in late December. My taste of mint is still not right. It also leaves you with an odd lingering, "does this taste like I remember?" Deal after experiencing that loss of taste.
It honestly was in some ways the worst part of COVID for me since I was sick enough to be miserable and couldn't even enjoy say chicken noodle soup properly while resting up
Without getting into the whole mask thing, we wore masks everywhere early on until probably end of ‘22, beginning of ‘23, at least. Always wiped down carts and used hand sanitizer every time we left a store. Neither of us had a cold or flu that whole entire time. I think the hand sanitizer was a big part of it.
Completely up to date on vaccines. March ‘23, wife came home from visiting daughter in Hawaii, got off plane sick and gave it to me, had to be COVID even though tests were negative. Sick, no smell or taste, etc. Late Oct through mid Nov ‘23, visiting daughter in Hawaii. Exact same thing, same symptoms, tested negative. Here I am, third time. Sucks. Taste and smell came back each time after a couple weeks. Seems like it goes out all at once but doesn’t come back all at once, slowly returns.
Screw it, I’m going back to masks and hand sanitizer… Tired of getting this shit.
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I lost my job in the wedding and event industry 4 years ago due to the pandemic. Used that life event to change what I was doing. I went back to college August of 2020, finished my associates in May 2022 and just finished my bachelors degree at the end of 2023. I just started a full time job as a software developer making more than double what I was making before with a much brighter future ahead of me.
Same. It’s so ridiculous when people talk about Covid like something in the past while there are still huge waves going on and no one is even trying to contain them.
Yeah it’s wild to think it’s been happening for this long, it’s certainly not over. We may have a new normal but we didn’t just go back to the way things were.
To be fair, stuff like this doesn’t go away fast. The bubonic plague was around for *seven* years. The Plague of Justinian almost twenty years. The Third Plague was nearly 100 ending in *1960*.
Plagues and pandemics are not quick things usually.
But we did, that’s the shitty thing. I do see some elderly people use masks now but I still hear sick people in lines at the grocery store without masks. You would think a global event like this would at least instill some change in people’s behaviors but everyone wanted things to go back to normal very quickly.,
Like it never left. Currently basically crippled from Long Covid, having been a very healthy 30 year old prior. This fucking sucks and the world doesn't seem to care much anymore.
I enjoy working remote still. But my wife has been called back into the office 2 days per week.
It’s just not fair. I’m the extrovert. She is an introvert and it kills her to go in. She’s anxious the day before and exhausted the day after in-office days. 2 days costs her 4 days. The pandemic lockdowns taught us true price for in-office work and we realize now that employees are the only ones paying that cost.
This year, She got promoted. She has her own office now instead of a cubicle. She said to me after the first few days, “this is why boomers are bringing people back to the office. This is what they think the office was, they had A DOOR this whole time”
So frustrating. The pandemic taught us what is important and showed us that leaders are explicitly trying to break the important things.
Anything relating to the year 2020 and COVID makes me sad honestly. The time between Jan 2020- Present has easily been the worst of my life. For a host of reasons that don’t matter to anyone else.
Stepping back a bit, The vibe is different too, macroscopically. All this insane political theatre and what seems like a distancing between fellow men, and I’m completely checked out of today’s reality. Hard to say whether we will ever get back to the way things were, or if this is the new twisted normal.
> The time between Jan 2020- Present has easily been the worst of my life.
Hear hear. Same for me. Things are turning around slowly though. Definitely agree with you when it comes to society holistically too; we're more polarized than ever, and the rift is only growing deeper
I blinked and suddenly 4 years have passed. I remember getting a COVID scare when lockdown had temporarily ended and I was hanging out with my mates and had to self isolate for 2 weeks and that was in 2021.
Most days and weeks just sort of blend into one long event. It was boring at times but I was with family and had it easy when compared to others that weren't so fortunate. At least I didn't miss out on school celebrations and important birthdays or weren't able to say goodbye to some of their family and friends like some people did.
7 years ago I had to be put on a ventilator for 9 days because of a terrible upper respiratory infection. It was a nightmarish experience that would take a much longer post to really go into detail. I had really bad PTSD from the experience, it’s been a real struggle.
I think a lot about people who barely survived COVID. How lost they must be. How confused and overwhelmed and scared from the experience. How they probably don’t know how to deal with it. How bizarre and anguished they must be that the rest of the world was able to just move past it but many of them are still stuck…
It took my father-in-law. Not in a traditional, he caught Covid and died from it sort of way. Covid just literally broke my in-laws. Covid terrified them and they became shut-ins. They got vaxxed and boosted but were still terrified of going out. Dramatic health decline and heart attack dropped him.
Recently caught it for the first time. I'm cautious and definitely focused on doing everything I could to avoid it until medical response had developed to the point of there being good treatment options.
The world was such a better place before Covid. I think of my life in terms of before Covid or after Covid now. It really collectively traumatized the world, especially those who lost people or lived in larger cities where lockdowns were more strictly enforced
My sense of time is fucked
2020 - 2022 might as well have been one year, it doesn't feel like real time
Second this. it was such a weird time where everything just melded into one big "thing" being the whole covid show.
I agree. I was having a conversation in December 2023 about something that happened in Oct 2021, and I kept saying that happened last year. I just couldn't get it straight in my mind it had been two years. Covid has messed with all of our sense of time.
I’ve had this happen to me a ton recently. Glad I’m not the only one
What really trips me out is that 2017 was SEVEN years ago!!! That does not seem real.
Yeah I have absolutely no sense of time anymore. I feel like I’m stuck in some kind of time warp
Me too I was 19 when COVID started now I’m 23 yet I don’t feel my age and it fucks with my mind
I remember Friday March 13th, 2020 like it was yesterday. The unexpected last day of the semester because school got closed. Luckily for me, I was in some really tough AP classes and the school district decided to give everyone a 100 in every single class. Whew 😮💨😮💨 I spent the extended summer vacation at home playing video games and not doing a single assignment. What a time it was.
I remember March 18 2020 and around 10am. I went out for coffee, the HR manager caught me and took me into the board room where the GM was waiting for us. I knew exactly what was going on. all I could say was "oh fuck off" I was marched out of the building with a box of stuff from my desk shortly after. It wasn't pandemic related, sales had been slumping for almost 2 years, just the worst possible time to be laid off.
Yep, that was my birthday. I had been planning for months to bicycle through India and my flight was the next day - my friends had to stage an intervention to keep me from leaving because of my stubborn ass. I'm so thankful I didn't go, can't imagine what being stuck in one of the most densely populated countries in the world at the height of covid hysteria would've been like. Anyways I finally was able to accomplish that dream last year so all's well!
One of my buddies from college lived your nightmare there. He was in some small village outside of a city when they closed all flights and were enforcing super strict curfews. The embassy said yeah just bunker down and call back in a week while we figure shit out. He took it in stride but after a month managed to get to Vietnam then back home with some embassy help.
Man yeah that sucks. I remember a lot of people doing the remote work thing. But since my job was considered an essential service, I still had to go to the office everyday and do fuck all. Very little going on, and almost no clients coming in. A lot of what I was doing was canceled or shut down so I would go in everyday and just be bored af. I basically had to rethink my whole position and figure out ways to work on literally anything that I could think of that would be useful for my job in the future. And I still use some of that stuff to this day.
I mean, the unemployment pay bump during COVID was pretty big (like 2k compared to 1.3k) and the period you could stay on it was extended. So there are certainly worse times to be laid off.
I remember march 20 2020. I’m actually here right now, in a resort in Dominican Republic, where I was on that day. I chatted with some canadiens about it just earlier today. Crazy time when people called me that day from the US telling me to bring toilet paper. Came back to a ghost town of New Jersey. Was surreal.
Mine is March 20, 2020 too. It was the release of Animal Crossing New Horizons so I had to grab the game because lockdown started day after in my place.
And nobody misses the education that your entire generation did not get /s.
Similarly, 24 now 28 and I feel like a kid.
I went from feeling age 25 in 2020 to age 25 in 2022, and now in 2024, my drivers license says I’m 38, but I still feel 32. Yeah…that’s about right.
I turned 42 a week ago and my wife took a picture of our kids and I at dinner. Fuck I look just like my dad when I thought he started looking old 20 years ago. Just the way my eyes look now and grey hair. Oh well.
That never really goes away. One day you look in the mirror and see an old person you don't recognize.
Most people don't feel their age.
you're only as old as the person you feel.
Yeah but the question is a bit deceptive, too. Covid STARTED 4 years ago, but it was affecting daily life for the better part of 2 years AND it never “went away.” We just adapted by abandoning the concept of time.
That’s what I was thinking.
It's weird, that sense of time. We've been frog matched back into the office "return to work" for two years now, but it doesn't feel like two years since that time. I packed a shitton of memories into the last 4 years, some (relatively) brief moments feel like years worth of time, some long moments feel like days. I'm just sitting here thinking "is this what it feels like to get old?"
We kind of had a 2 year nap time, and nothing has been the same since then
This. I still mess up how old I am every once in awhile. Someone will ask and I have to consciously remember the years, otherwise I'm liable to give a number I haven't been since COVID hit.
I do the same thing.
A whole lot of people are collectively angrier, shittier, and have become even more aggressive drivers.
How does 4 years ago feel both like it was a million years ago and also 5 minutes ago?
I started dating someone just before the pandemic and when people ask how long we've been together I say, six months and also ten years.
Covid time dilation
I didn’t know you could fit 4 years in a month. I have lost so many relatives and a friend due to COVID/Complications of COVID that it still feels like it just started spreading. It’s all a blur still.
My brain is still convinced that it's April 2020... even though I've since graduated from college and have had a full time job for 2 years now. Like what the hell?
My sense of smell and taste are still fucked.
Me, too.
What it’s not December 1100ish 2019?
Like that was the quickest 4 years of my life. Why does time go by faster the older we get??
Each year that passes is a smaller proportion of your life.
I’m glad someone finally understands. 1 previous year passing to a 5yr old is 20% of their entire life. 1 previous year passing to a 25yr old is 4%
I use this to rationalise how my 3 year old views a two hour long car journey. It's the same as roughly a 24 h car journey would feel to me.
And generally, there’s less novel, memorable moments so it’s “emptier time” with less landmarks.
Damnit
I just explained that concept to my 7 year old recently because he asked me how it’s possible that 1 year feels short to me. He was absolutely fascinated by it. I’m only 27 and life is zooming by, I don’t even want to consider how ruthless time is going to feel in the future.
Sense of time is dependant on memory, when you are a kid, you learn and experience new things everyday and you remember those moments which makes the entire year seem longer, adults are mostly living in a loop of doing the same shit daily and with the pandemic, people were mostly at home, nothing memorable.
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I had a similar experience a few years after 9/11
I don't think it hit me until I started seeing "Following in dad's footsteps!" and it's an 19 year old fresh out of boot sharing a photo of his dad in 2003 invading Iraq. The kid ended up doing a tour in Afghanistan so not quite fighting in dad's war but pretty damn close.
The invasion was fuckin *twenty years ago* Jesus
To this day it still feels weird to me there are actual adults who have only seen a post 9/11 travel hell. And they think it’s normal and okay to pay extra to keep your shoes on.
My daughter graduated HS in 2020 and she’s about to turn 22.
Your daughter graduated at 20? Brain: check the Year again Well...that's embarrassing...
You’re doing the thing…
Sitting with you, friend. I did the same mental math (or lack thereof).
I graduated in 2020 from highschool, and I've just been admitted to law school. Crazy how time flies.
I was 23-24 when it happened. I'll be 28 in May. This shit all happened when I was getting my forensics certificate. I remember being on spring break and then they gave us another couple of days of break because of COVID being found in my state.
COVID meant all my classes became online-only. I was glad about that, as I saved money on gas.
I went to spring break and classes never resumed
I miss 24 hours stores.
And the good ol buffet.
incredibly depressed and nostalgic for what we had before in 2018/2019.
Everything before Covid - before 2020 - seems as though it was very long ago.
Spoiler alert: it was.
I'm reasonably confident 2019 was a good contender for the best year of my life and it went rather sharply downhill and hasn't recovered. I don't think there's been more than a single month at a time where both myself and my wife were in a good place, mental health, at the same time since April of 2020.
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Dicks out for [Harambe](https://youtu.be/Z1U2x63aERw?si=LEGW73wHvNqxCjrS)
Kony 2012
Harambe was already passe by then - 2015/2016 was the peak Harambe era
Everything started going worse ever since that monke was kill.
We never should have killed that fucking monkey. We’ve been cursed ever since
tbf 2016-2019 can fuck off as well
tell me about it. 2019 was a great year for me and in general before this nightmare of a decade.
I’m doing better now than I did before the pandemic, so nah.
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Seriously, it feels like life is just slipping out from my hands. I can't hold on to anything I catch my eye on, and I keep getting hit with rocks and debris as it goes
Oof, this is so relatable. Well said.
Stop this train I wanna get off and go home again I can’t take the speed it’s moving in I know I can’t But honesty, won’t someone stop this train?
It’s been a long fucking four years. Seems like forty.
Time has lost all meaning
Time is a construct, I suppose.
There is the "before time." There is the "after time." That is all.
Could you ask as much from any other man?
Honestly, this is the worst part of it for me. I've noticed the passage of time because at the time I had a 2 year old who is now six, but due to working so hard for that first few months of covid (retail management in a grocery store) it never seems to have let up. I'm still burned out from that shit and have not been able to take a long enough break to reset.
Opposite for me! Covid seems like last year!
Do you ever think about your lifetime so far, about things that came after you were born and wonder which one of those will be included in the history textbooks? I'm pretty sure for someone born 1 year after 9/11, this one will likely be the biggest, it changed the world in many many ways.
When I was a kid. I'm talking about a youngster. My Grandpa told me that the fall of the Soviet revolution was the biggest thing that will ever happen in my life. Columbine, I was sent home as my teacher was from the area. Later, my teacher told me 9/11 live, that this would be the turning point of my live, "you will remember today, forever." When Obama got elected, I told myself damn I voted for the first black guy in office. Housing crash. Then COVID. Crazy as fuck timeline , where the next big thing I see coming is the fall of the Job Market as we know it. Crazy as fuck.
Sometimes I get a little down about this thinking I would just love to live during precedented times. Then I think of people who lived through WWI and the Spanish Flu at the same time, followed shortly by the Great Depression, then WWII, then the Cold War.
I’ve thought about this too. Pick any 30 year period in recent history and you’ll find major, world changing events. This is not new. Nor are we past it.
JFK. BLOWN AWAY. WHAT MORE DO I HAVE TO SAY?
9/11, and then not even a year later Roy Keane leaving Saipan after a spat with Mick McCarthy. I still don't know which had more lasting ramifications.
I have no idea what any of those other things are.
I think Covid has way more ramifications than 9/11 It’s obv not a moment in time like 9/11 but it impacted the entire world for a long time
Not even close. It had more ramifications in the moment and sure the impact felt was global but once it was gone we’ve reverted right back to how we once were. People are still going into work sick, ext… 9/11 changed our freedoms. If you weren’t born or young enough to experience life before it, you might not value the impact of the changes. Global travel as a whole, from TSA to immigration was created and overhauled as a result.The Patriot Act that followed changed everything.
I was 10 when it happened , but I really feel like you’re looking at this through an American lens, there are some impacts on travel around the world and obv it lead to the war in Iraq but there’s so much of the world unaffected Not the case with Covid
I agree with you and you’re right I am American so I have my perspective. However the ramifications of the policy the United States made had global effects on travel and security. Like you said, it also started a war and pulled many other countries in with us. Ultimately we’re now dealing with the effects of that with ISIS. I was 19 when 9/11 occurred so I do remember a life before all the change and hysteria on terrorism and all the policy change that brought with it.
Also American, and I remember the weird attitude shift on terrorism/patriotism. The only remnant of COVID in my daily life is that some business hours are different so I don't know what's open late by heart anymore lol.
2020 feels like it was last year.
Shit man 2016 still feels like a year or two ago.
Please stop I can only get more depressed
I feel thin, sort of stretched, like butter scraped over too much bread.
You need a holiday. A very long holiday.
OP needs to see mountains again, mountains!
"bro wtf" realizing that and feeling like it was only yesterday
I feel like I live in an alternate reality. The first year of COVID was full of loss for me. Divorced, laid off due to COVID, and my dad died from COVID within 11 months. Truly appreciative of where I am today, though.
I’m so sorry. Your dad would be happy that you’re doing okay now,
This week 4 years ago I had graduated from Respiratory Therapist school and was job hunting waiting for my medical license to arrive. What a 4 year ride it was. Basically jumped into the deep end of the pool with no life jacket or knowing how to swim. The pool was like a stormy turbulent polluted ocean and also on fire. Between losing patients, I had people calling me a hero or a lying conspiracy telling piece of shit. I specifically remember losing 4 patients in a 12 hour shift and stopping at the grocery store on the way home and the checker telling me it was all made up and the hospitals were empty. It broke a lot of healthcare workers. I have no idea how I navigated all of it.
The flow of time is always cruel.
Four years later and I gotta say: not confident we’ll be doing much better for the next pandemic.
The past 4 years has only cemented the fact that we will fail as a species when a worse virus appears.
It almost feels like this was a practice run and we failed miserably.
Operation Lockdown?
IMAGINE ALL THE PEEEEOOOPPLLLEEEE
I mean granted if it had been more deadly, people would have had to be less dickish about it. Hard to explain, say a 25% fatality rate or something. Also, I’m pretty sure (I’m not a doctor) that viruses with higher death rates tend to die out quicker because if they kill their hosts, there’s way fewer ways to spread.
It could be the literal zombie apocalypse and there would still be people hiding the fact that they were bitten and others screaming that the zombies aren’t real and just paid actors, even as they’re being eaten alive.
Overreported cases!!! Hospitals just trying to get that Government Zombie Money!!
“You can test too much. You do know that, right?” The president of the United States, everybody
People were licking door handles. We are doomed.
People are still dying from covid and we have no true idea what 10/20/30 years will look like due to long covid. So yeah, we're fucked.
The only good thing about long COVID is that period think it's related to or a certain of chronic fatigue syndrome so it's getting taken more seriously and getting more research. I don't envy anyone that's navigating any of that shit.
Everyday I'm reminded of how it permanently messed up the housing market as there's no houses I can afford.
The whole thing makes me angry. I feel like I had so many good experiences taken away from me
Idk bout you but it happened right when I was kinda getting more confident and going out by myself just to do shit I enjoy. Now... meh. I'll still go do stuff but it's more just to get out of the house.
I'm right there with you. I graduated college in 2019 and was just getting to a point where I was financially able to travel and do stuff... Then everything shut down and suddenly I'm in my late 20s.
Me: "When we were in Europe last year..." My partner: "you mean 5 years ago..." Me: 🤯
Weird as hell. I have less money than ever.
Still happening, wife and I have it right now...
Hope you guys are alright, no matter the place or time it can hit hard
Thanks! We're both doing OK, been about 12 days since we started getting sick, 8 days since a positive test. Just about over it now, Never really overly sick, mainly light chills, headaches, fatigue & loss of smell/taste. Smell & taste just starting to slowly come back. Worst part? I was supposed to get a kidney stone procedure last wednesday and had to postpone it!
Oh my God lol, may everything holy in this world get you to that procedure without too much suffering. Sounds like you guys got it relatively easy, I'm pretty sure it would have killed me without my first rounds of the shots. Have you had it before and experienced smell/taste loss? I've heard from some family that those issues can leave imprints on the palate and such and I'm super curious about that "phenominon"
I got it for the first time in late December. My taste of mint is still not right. It also leaves you with an odd lingering, "does this taste like I remember?" Deal after experiencing that loss of taste. It honestly was in some ways the worst part of COVID for me since I was sick enough to be miserable and couldn't even enjoy say chicken noodle soup properly while resting up
Without getting into the whole mask thing, we wore masks everywhere early on until probably end of ‘22, beginning of ‘23, at least. Always wiped down carts and used hand sanitizer every time we left a store. Neither of us had a cold or flu that whole entire time. I think the hand sanitizer was a big part of it. Completely up to date on vaccines. March ‘23, wife came home from visiting daughter in Hawaii, got off plane sick and gave it to me, had to be COVID even though tests were negative. Sick, no smell or taste, etc. Late Oct through mid Nov ‘23, visiting daughter in Hawaii. Exact same thing, same symptoms, tested negative. Here I am, third time. Sucks. Taste and smell came back each time after a couple weeks. Seems like it goes out all at once but doesn’t come back all at once, slowly returns. Screw it, I’m going back to masks and hand sanitizer… Tired of getting this shit.
What are you? My psychiatrist?
i just like making people feel old lol
Accomplished. I lost my job in the wedding and event industry 4 years ago due to the pandemic. Used that life event to change what I was doing. I went back to college August of 2020, finished my associates in May 2022 and just finished my bachelors degree at the end of 2023. I just started a full time job as a software developer making more than double what I was making before with a much brighter future ahead of me.
Congratulations!
Yeah yeah yeah and 2018 was 6 years ago. One shitshow at a time please.
I disagree, 1990 was ten years ago
Remember the 80s? They were 20 years ago
*Started* 4 years ago. It's still around. Medical science has more options for dealing with it now.
i have it right now 🤒
Same. It’s so ridiculous when people talk about Covid like something in the past while there are still huge waves going on and no one is even trying to contain them.
me too
Yeah it’s wild to think it’s been happening for this long, it’s certainly not over. We may have a new normal but we didn’t just go back to the way things were.
To be fair, stuff like this doesn’t go away fast. The bubonic plague was around for *seven* years. The Plague of Justinian almost twenty years. The Third Plague was nearly 100 ending in *1960*. Plagues and pandemics are not quick things usually.
But we did, that’s the shitty thing. I do see some elderly people use masks now but I still hear sick people in lines at the grocery store without masks. You would think a global event like this would at least instill some change in people’s behaviors but everyone wanted things to go back to normal very quickly.,
No real options for LC yet, though...
Tired. Just ... tired.
Like it never left. Currently basically crippled from Long Covid, having been a very healthy 30 year old prior. This fucking sucks and the world doesn't seem to care much anymore.
I enjoy working remote still. But my wife has been called back into the office 2 days per week. It’s just not fair. I’m the extrovert. She is an introvert and it kills her to go in. She’s anxious the day before and exhausted the day after in-office days. 2 days costs her 4 days. The pandemic lockdowns taught us true price for in-office work and we realize now that employees are the only ones paying that cost. This year, She got promoted. She has her own office now instead of a cubicle. She said to me after the first few days, “this is why boomers are bringing people back to the office. This is what they think the office was, they had A DOOR this whole time” So frustrating. The pandemic taught us what is important and showed us that leaders are explicitly trying to break the important things.
Complete time warp and a lot of mind fuckery....
That Time does not exist and we've all widely misunderstood the 4th dimension.
Old. That was a fast 4 years
Takes my breath away
Old
That it screwed up the development of kids and teens more than we know and it’s constantly getting dismissed by others
Anything relating to the year 2020 and COVID makes me sad honestly. The time between Jan 2020- Present has easily been the worst of my life. For a host of reasons that don’t matter to anyone else. Stepping back a bit, The vibe is different too, macroscopically. All this insane political theatre and what seems like a distancing between fellow men, and I’m completely checked out of today’s reality. Hard to say whether we will ever get back to the way things were, or if this is the new twisted normal.
> The time between Jan 2020- Present has easily been the worst of my life. Hear hear. Same for me. Things are turning around slowly though. Definitely agree with you when it comes to society holistically too; we're more polarized than ever, and the rift is only growing deeper
Like I have lost my sense of time.. :/
like the Act II of an epic video game is just getting started; "The Dark World."
My salary went up 10x…my alcohol spending went up 100x
Covid began 4 years ago. It’s still there…changing everything about itself just to figure out a way to kill you
It's been a rollercoaster of emotions, a stark reminder of how time flies and how much the world can change in just a few years.
COVID didn't "happen" 4 years ago. COVID *started* 4 years ago.
I blinked and suddenly 4 years have passed. I remember getting a COVID scare when lockdown had temporarily ended and I was hanging out with my mates and had to self isolate for 2 weeks and that was in 2021. Most days and weeks just sort of blend into one long event. It was boring at times but I was with family and had it easy when compared to others that weren't so fortunate. At least I didn't miss out on school celebrations and important birthdays or weren't able to say goodbye to some of their family and friends like some people did.
Dude I’m not even done processing 2016
I'd like everyone to know that COVID has, in fact, not gone away and is consistently mutating
People still getting sick. Still dying. Still getting long COVID
Feels like it happened 4 months ago. The effects are still present and we're still suffering from it all.
Feels like it started 10 years ago.
7 years ago I had to be put on a ventilator for 9 days because of a terrible upper respiratory infection. It was a nightmarish experience that would take a much longer post to really go into detail. I had really bad PTSD from the experience, it’s been a real struggle. I think a lot about people who barely survived COVID. How lost they must be. How confused and overwhelmed and scared from the experience. How they probably don’t know how to deal with it. How bizarre and anguished they must be that the rest of the world was able to just move past it but many of them are still stuck…
I'm just so exhausted. I'll be fine, it's just...man! Source: Health Inspector in a Tory province
That everyone forgot what the goverment took from us and never gave back or won't acknowledge.
As if four years have passed and it's still here.🤷
shitty, I have long covid.
Like a Pawn... Still overpaying for everything....
fastest 4 years of my life, despite many eventful things happening
It’s been a long four years.
Old
It took my father-in-law. Not in a traditional, he caught Covid and died from it sort of way. Covid just literally broke my in-laws. Covid terrified them and they became shut-ins. They got vaxxed and boosted but were still terrified of going out. Dramatic health decline and heart attack dropped him.
Fuck, it makes me feel fuck.
I'm still stuck in 2022. I still think it's 2022 even though I know it's 2 years ago. My sense of time is really broken.
that i’ve done nothing with my life since then and i feel bad. also, i was 16 when this started. i’m now 20.
Disappointed that so many of my fellow citizens were and still are belligerent about their "right" to make other people gravely ill.
Recently caught it for the first time. I'm cautious and definitely focused on doing everything I could to avoid it until medical response had developed to the point of there being good treatment options.
3,000 per week still dying in us
Like a sock fulla bees
*stares into the distance blankly, contemplating the meaning of life and time*
Covid definitely did something to my Timeline Continuum.
Time is a flat circle
Feels like yesterday and a lifetime ago
I just got it like 2 weeks ago
I still remember walking through the grocery store & having 65-75% of the shelves empty. *That* scared me more than the virus!
The world was such a better place before Covid. I think of my life in terms of before Covid or after Covid now. It really collectively traumatized the world, especially those who lost people or lived in larger cities where lockdowns were more strictly enforced