Now those same politicians have half a country supporting their choices and making excuses for them.

Traffic was restricted to essential workers. Me working at a tv station had a pass, and not worrying about any traffic (I ride a scooter) was like hesven. Now I may land in heaven with the loonatic road ragers in my city

Children are allowed to scream nonstop everywhere! We spoke when I was a kid. Screaming was reserved for park playtime. Why is this allowed? I like kids but they seem so out-of-control these days.

I like peace and quiet too but in a forest or in the mountains, not because thousands of people are dying. During the pandemic I found the silence deafening.

Pollution cleared up too, with businesses closed. Now we’re back to spewing filth in the sky and our rivers and oceans again.

I noticed. As an introvert with social anxiety, the quiet was heaven. Also, I miss the standing 6 feet apart.

I miss the quiet too

I very much miss the Covid quiet.

I miss the quiet.

Just goes to show that cities aren’t loud. CARS are loud.

I miss the quiet, and I certainly miss the traffic, or lack thereof. I get pissed when I have to sit in traffic now

I really do miss that.

It wasn't nice, get a grip.

But how is it 10 times louder than before? I adore my generational home but I need out of here.

I had tinnitus before the lockdown. It disappeared.

I live in the middle of nowhere... It's always quiet here. :)

All covid was a way to influence an illegal election. So many people failed to think for themselves, and just followed the indoctrination set forth by the media and false science.

In our city you seldom hear a auto horn, nice. And, everything else louder.

I´d rather be free than locked down into a box by tyrannical governments, who cares about the noise

I remember DISTINCTLY the day the noise returned… it made me cry )-;

now that this has been mentioned? i'm a fedex driver and i've never seen such BEAUTIFUL traffic!! it was like sunday morning ALL THE TIME!! everyone was home for signatures! it even smelled different outside cause of WAY less traffic! talk about CLEAR SKIES!!

I was an "essential" (expendable) worker throughout- things just got harder and we had to put up with a lot of abuse from the public. I had many friends suddenly at the start of it. I'm still working and I am totally burned out now. There's not much to keep pushing forwards for.

All the SMOG was gone all over the globe! If only it could be like that again and forever!

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bring back lock down! So glad I got to experience that! I think it should be annual or at least biannual

I do. I loved the quiet and lack of traffic. If we could work our normal lives without being this loud, hectic, consumerism-driven society, it might be very nice.

It was nice not feeling like I had to do something every weekend. It was also nice knowing no one else was doing anything either. I miss it.

I miss lockdown so much!

When I saw no one outside it scared me. It was post-apocalyptic almost

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I miss it, the quiet, the calm, it was a scary time, but also an extremely peaceful time x

Because they were too distracted thinking about the reason for the quiet to find it nice.

I didn't really notice seems like most place around here had essential workers.

for me it was a scary silence and a constant reminder there was something very wrong. I live in the middle of a town. Silence normally only at sunday morning or at night. Not during work days.

I moved right before the first lockdown when everyone already started to stay at home. Now after the lift of the last regulation i noticed how f****d up loud this location is. I want another lockdown just so i can sleep peacefully again.

I was just thinking about this the other day. Like, my daughter and I didn't really leave the house for MONTHS and our neighborhood wasn't really noisy to begin with, but after things started to go back to "normal", I couldn't get over how loud everything was.

I was not supposed to at the time but me and the misses traveled for 40mins without seeing a single car, bus or even people. And we did it all the time. It was so strange

I loved the Covid lockdowns. It was quiet, there was hardly any traffic. I do miss that.

Well, all the old and otherwise sick people died (wich is terrible). The sane people afterwards got vaccinated. Now we just have to wait for the stupid shits to die out.

Everything was made to last back then. Since the late 90’s, if not even a little bit before that, products started getting watered down as a marketing tactic, the less amount of time it lasts the sooner you’ll go out and pay more money to get the product fixed or replaced. Greed has evolved over time is the sad truth of it all.

I mean, from a purely economic perspective I realize that they'd rather have people pay every month instead of buying a single product, but... I *hate* this mentality where you don't actually buy anything, you pay a subscription to use it. It's fine for some things, but for others... There's a reason they'll have to pry my hard-copy books out of my cold dead hands. Those are MINE, and no one can just randomly change the contents whenever they want. Looking at you, Red White And Royal Blue and the clever remark about U.S relations with Israel that got changed to something bland and random about Norway because too many people think it's antisemitism to say anything negative about Israel.

I thought making $50,000 a year sounded great. Now everything is so, so expensive…. $50K isn’t the same $50K it was 10 years ago….