Spoken by someone who was not homeschooling 3 kids and trying to work a full time job at the same time…

I worked in a hospital during the pandemic. Now way I will ever miss that time. I still have nightmares.

there were fun parts, but mostly getting super depressed because i wasnt able to see friends and family because you were not supposed to cross the border (they obviously live in another country) and i missed going to concerts too much. I had to let my BF go to a friends funeral on his own. When another friend died, i did nothing but cry and cry and cry for a week. At a certain moment my BF desperately said "i wish i could take you somewhere to get your mind off of it but i cant even take you into town for a coffee or a nice meal" So yeah, no, i dont understand the way its glorified. And as an extra bonus, it brought up all the conspiracy idiots too. F**k that s**t.

This is a pretty simplistic, rose-colored view of an event that affected the entire world, and a lot of it in pretty rough ways. I agree there might have been a few good moments like this post describes, but it's hard to overlook the lost income for so many, the interruption to kids' education, massive medical staff burnout, and oh yeah, the millions of dead.

Essential worker here, I really can not envision a more opposite experience than my 2020 referring to a time make shift morgues were on the street in New York City. As a healthcare worker I witnessed the desperate loneliness people felt in their last moments before dying alone due to quarantine visitor restrictions. It has been a gut wrenching few years.

Life should be like….? So….someone else pays your bills, rent, provides food, etc? I’m struggling to understand here. To my knowledge those that have the lifestyle you describe were either royalty, owned slaves or were part of the fuedal system. If everyone did as you describe who builds the roads and grows the crops and keeps the lights on? How does this work? And who decides which members of the population work to support the rest? This reads a bit dystopian to me.

Bold of you to assume I did anything during quarantine

So many adopted pets returned to shelters after Covid 😢

I never want to experience that hell again.

Some of us weren't doing any of that. We were working.

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I miss lockdown. So good for so many things. Should be an annual event, like Christmas

I still had to go to my essential job, but I do remember the peace of driving with no other cars on the road.

don't forget the bliss of working from home, too instead of battling traffic each and every day, spending a small fortune on clothes and lunches and dealing with co-worker pettiness and office politcs, oi!

No I do not remember that I remember being depressed and suicidal

What I remember most of life during the Pandemic is working full-time at Costco trying not to b***h-slap all of the numbskull, self-entitled, rude, grasping fools who managed to forget even basic manners while they were in the store or in the parking lot. DO NOT MISS THOSE DAYS!!

This is hopelessly idealistic about what was actually happening at that time.

I learned, like many virtual shut ins, could help so many others via my own experiences, and that I wasn’t wierd(er) than I thought.. mostly I learned to become creative again, just this time in a kitchen. Life doesn’t break us, we enhance each other. (Oddly I made it through the pandemic and finally contracted that gnarly little booger while in a long term care facility recovering from a traumatic lower body injury. )

I was locked in a flat with my two kids aged 2 and 4- it was absolutely exhausting. I was so jealous of people who said they were bored! On the other hand, my plight was nothing compared to that of healthcare and other frontline workers. When people said “we’re all in it together”… No, we weren’t. It was hugely different depending on your personal and financial circumstances.

Honestly I very much enjoyed quarantine. I'd been training for that my whole life.

This is literally how life is in the Nordics. I live in Sweden and people have time for this and for their families. They get to actually go home and take care of their families. I wish Americans had this option!

I wasn't. I still had to work which I kind of glad even though it got very stressful at times. Didn't want to deal with unemployment or looing for another job.

It made me depressed seeing all that, that people were doing.

The pandemic temporary broke the global capitalist economic system that we've been chained to for over 300 years... we got a glimpse of what life should be like after we progress away from capitalism

And appreciating fellow humans so much more.

Life did not change at all where I live. No business closures and no social distancing rules. I worked, went to 2 weddings, bars, multiple large get-togethers, it was nice.