I’ve spent loads of years studying and teaching psychology as well as keeping up with what the well known + current research about human psychology shows. As sad as this sounds, it is because of this that I never had faith that most of us humans are relatively smart or well adjusted.. The pandemic just put this on tragic, global display. 🥺

Corporations in USA enjoy the same Constitutional protections that the people do. Let that sink in.

This was heartbreaking

I frickin' LOVED the isolation. It was glorious.

THIS. It literally tore us apart in the worst ways.

Tipping has gotten a bit ridiculous. Those tap screens at checkout that automatically add 20%. You haven't done anything except ring me up for my overpriced food. I think tip jars are fine, it's the automatic charge for doing nothing.

I think this is a result of way more than just the pandemic. We elect leaders that are incapable of basic civility and their supporters see this as permission to be just as crude and thoughtless.

Option number two.

I believe the pandemic alone wouldn't have contributed to this, but that the combination of it plus the MAGAt disregard for public health by defying common sense rules to the point of actually physically threatening employees and others trying to enforce them, all of which was instigated then encouraged by the lack of basic courtesy and couth demonstrated by the then "president" and his party, and continuing on today that created this issue. Additionally, when it comes to school age children (and I include high school in that), missing a year plus of general social contact, and being under the spotty supervision of parents who were struggling to do their own work from home---or who were in exempt jobs they still had to go in to, so not home at all---while supposedly attending classes online (so damned easy to cheat), that has led to teachers having great difficulty keeping their classrooms in order. Adults should know better, and they should know to teach their children good general courtesy. Unfortunately, there are too many who don't do this, and tbh, their children do end up suffering for it, whether they realize it or not. But, even amongst the parents who have taught their children well, you can only expect so much out of people already stretched dangerously thin trying to keep everything in their lives together and functioning in the face of the upheaval from a global pandemic.

I used to grocery shop at like 3 am too. I'd often see the same people shopping every week and we'd just nod and keep ignoring each other. Now I order my groceries, which I might like better.

This, to me, is one of our biggest problems. How can you have discussion/debate when no one can agree on a common reality?

I think the stat for suicides is that on average, 7 other people are deeply and permanently affected by each one.

That's just a normal part of getting older, nothing to do with the pandemic.

Cause parents are not good at teaching and teachers needs more pay? And homeschooling is not a good thing in normal situation..

The UK already stuffed it up with the leave vote, covid was just the cherry on top.

Dear old Boris J partying away while telling everyone else not to.

During the pandemic we had a decrease in patients for radiation treatment. Now if this had meant there were less patients with cancer I would have been extatic. However THIS WAS NOT THE CASE! There were as many cancer patients as always, they just did not get treatment. Why? Because their cancer was not detected in a timely manner bc everything and anything was a symptom of COVID. A lot of times patients were just not seen and told to quarantine. The year after we treated more patients for cancer than in any year before the pandemic. And a lot of those were no longer curative as they would have been had the patients been seen by a specialist earlier. Yes, I'M STILL FREAKING MAD ABOUT THAT! 🤬

They realized customers will put up with sub-par services and have made it the norm. They're raking in massive profits by cutting staff and couldn't care less whether we like it or not.

I have dissociative motor disorder, that presents like severe tourette's, that gets worse the more anxious I get. Before covid there were specialised hairdresser that went at a slower pace allowing my arms to move or for me to stand in a corner if I needed to. But they all disappeared and a standard hairdresser does not have the liability to bring a sharp object by a person that finds it hard to stay perfectly still.

My oldest son changed his career for the same reason; he's now an aerial mechanic for an helicopter ambulance company. Edit: he was doing it for vacationer planes before.

Same...my sense of smell and taste has been diminished tremendously since getting COVID. But sure, it's just a cold...

When the government gets involved, corruption follows.

My alcohol intake increased to daily during the pandemic, I'm still struggling to reduce it to not every day.

Does that kid in the striped shirt have bones in his legs? My legs ache just looking at how he is sitting.

Do you mean it's gone or it has boomed?

You mean the lack of menus and those QR codes? I have a really old/crappy phone that doesn't do QR and it drives me nuts.

The business needs a come-to-Jesus meeting with the entire company. I remember when my company fully addressed instant messaging for all employees. Within a year, the director had a meeting and very calmly told people that they needed to ignore those during meetings, to be present during meetings and not be multi-tasking. Coming from the director, it had a very big, positive impact.

So many idiots on the roads daily! (I might be one of them sometimes).

Isn't that one good? We cannot have better working hours for employees and 24/7 services at the same time

They can, actually. The problem is that they dislike the path they'd need to take to achieve it. The irony being, that our parents and grandparents, quite often didn't have a choice, they didn't get to follow their "passion" or base their entire lives around some ethereal of "happiness" They focused on finding a job, any job, that would allow them to provide for themselves and their family, and they busted their a$$, in the same company for 30/40/50 years. Not because they liked it, not because it made them happy....but because they understood that no matter how you try to dress it up, a job will always feel like work eventually. Your job is something that facilitates your life, not something that defines it.

Our district still has snow days! No elearning necessary!

I prefer dating with pesticides, personally.

Not really a bad thing.

In the US, I can get appointments, but can't afford them. Got a small raise and *poof* family of 5 kicked off medicaid. All 3 kids had their cleanings, cost $500 after insurance. Need a couple cavities filled, gonna cost us about $6000. ETA my son is young and special needs, so we have to pay to have him put under. The 6000 also doesn't cover whatever the orthodontist will cost us.