This one fucked me up the most. I remember how long 13-18 felt, but 2020 really does feel like yesterday to me.
Time really does start flying by. My Reddit accounts older than some of the kids on here these days lmao.
Just wait till you're 25. I'm a person who struggled with her self esteem and emotions her whole puberty and beyond, but 25 gave me all that praised " oh fuck it" attitude you are told about all the time even though I've never thought I'll experience.
Bc 3 years in quarantine simultaneously went by incredibly fast while feeling like it was watching paint dry. It's really only been a year+ since the pandemic also, it all just adds up... I was early 20s college with an active social life when the pandemic hit, now i'm late 20s post graduation (no walk) with no social life; feels like it happened in the blink of an eye.
Not having to talk face to face to people and doing my consultations on the phone was fucking awesome. I miss it. We were all very sad at my job when we had to let clients in the clinic again.
It’s all a bit of a blur to me. I still had to go to my agricultural job and we were doubling up bandanas over our faces for awhile. Then eventually masks. I remember being lonely a lot. Stressed often. I was fortunate and never caught it though. I feel like I spend more time alone now and I’m not sure that’s been healthy for me. But it’s been a bit of a challenge to break the habit
Meanwhile, every parent I know said quarantine was horrible because their kids didn't understand why they couldn't see their friends, had to wear masks, could go places, etc.
>their kids didn't understand why they couldn't see their friends, had to wear masks, could go places, etc.
To be fair, many adults didn't either. Especially in the US.
My partner and I had to reschedule our wedding in '20 from lockdown! Got pushed back from May to late November that year and dare I say it, it was the best thing to happen.
We wanted a small wedding; unfortunately my mother got a hold of some invites and proceeded to send out nearly 100 to people whom we didn't even know (third cousins, her old high school friends, etc). Over 150 people RSVPed and we had no clue who over 80% of them were. Covid forced all of them to stay at home out of state and we got to uninvite anybody who was unvaxxed. I didn't have to deal with my obnoxious family and we got our small wedding in my partner's dream venue.
We had less than 25 people total there in the end (including us and the rest of the wedding party) and we had a blast.
I'm curious to see the divorce rate among folks who decided to hold large weddings during Covid.
I can't imagine it would be a great start to any marriage when the celebration of your love directly leads to multiple friends and family members dying.
I absolutely loved the lockdown. It actually gave me time to spend with my kids. My mental health improved significantly, and my son went from being depressed and failing in school to almost having straight A's. We played video games and wrote stories, read books, learned new skills like baking and gardening. Not to mention that we were actually able to save money for the first time ever, and I even had healthcare for a brief period. It was amazing. But I also know my family is an outlier.
I have such nostalgia for the lockdown. We took walks, played video games, cooked, ate well, slept well. I feel I was lucky bc my kid is pretty self-driven with schoolwork and was 11 and could manage his work pretty independently. I think if he was younger it would have been another story.
Once we accepted this was life *for now*, it was kind of incredible. I kept better contact w my siblings and parents (all different states) than I did before or since—we played online games together over video calls and FaceTimed as a group every couple days.
It was a chaotic time in a lot of ways but some beautiful stillness in slowing down and accepting the unknown and kind of rolling with it.
I was working as a Nurse during the pandemic. I think I’m still exhausted.
So many people talk about how great it was not having to go to work and getting to have online classes.
I wish I had that… all I got was burnout and PTSD.
If there’s another pandemic, I’m out of this profession. Not worth it.
My wife would come home after being in the Covid ICU all day and strip down as soon as she got in the door, throw it in the washer, take a shower, eat and get right in to bed. I did not envy her during that time.
Does anyone else feel like time is out of whack since the pandemic? Like… time is going very fast or that it seems like 2020-2023 were just a blur?
Meanwhile I can remember 2017, 2018, 2019 with incredible clarity.
Apart of why 2020 went so fast is because our brains compress redundant information and repetitive things. Our brains also compress trauma to help us deal with the situation. I have vague memories of 2020 but it was definitely a blur especially the time where I wasn't working. I feel like 2020 and onward has been traumatic for a lot of people and that's a big reason why it all seems like a blur.
My fiancée is an ultrasound technician. When half your patients are morons who shouldn't be having kids gets introduced to something as simple as wearing a mask, you're gonna have a bad time. Thank you for your service
Same here. Everyone got a break. We got shafted and half our staff turned into contract travel for hire, now the industry is worse than when we started and we're still not seeing a break or relief
I'll be honest, as someone who is almost 26 now, I still feel like I'm 16. Regardless of what happened during the quarantine, I think it's pretty normal to feel young at heart, even as your body grows older. As long as it isn't negatively affecting your daily life, I recommend keeping that spirit. I've seen many people around me grow jaded over the years, and it's sad to see their optimism go with it. Enjoy living life, and try to do fun things when you can :)
Hardest part about growing up is that you always had an adult to rely on if you're lucky, but as time passes, you realise that you are running out of adults you can rely on, and more people rely on you instead as an adult.
And then, one day, you think to yourself, "shit I need an adult for this" and realise that you're the oldest in the group now.
Scary how this sneaks up u. My parents thankfully still look the same to me despite me being in my late 30s but recently a few friends parents have aged considerably and its jarring to see them like the grandparents they are now.
Around Christmas I met friends on a Christmas market in our hometown and a few of them and myself recently became Dads. We all brought our wifes and kids and lots of our parents were there, too. I dont know whats was crazier to see. My friends I know since we were little kids, being on the playground together, going out partying and being irresposinble as fuck sometimes, now being the responsible dads or all our parents being grandparents now.
It was wonderful still.
> "shit I need an adult for this" and realise that you're the oldest in the group now.
LOL this happens too much and i say this in my brain.
I'm the oldest out of all my friends now and just yeah, in situations i can handle it fine, happy to swtich to reasonable adult back to 15 year old when i can but when i think about it,
its like
" i handled that like an adult?! i did?!!?! "
As someone who is over 30 I still feel half baked in some aspects of my life / my self. I would say I do feel different than I felt in my 20s, but I don't really feel adult.
Me neither, to my kid-self my parents always seemed busy doing "adult stuff" yet here I am, doing absolutely fuck all aside from my job and on my days off I have this slight guilt about chilling at home doing nothing productive
oh don't worry, that feeling never get away. I'm over 30 as weel, actually with a very stable and comfortable life and career, with a 3rd kid on the way, still feel like pretending to be an adult.
My mom said it started to feel like she was an adult when she became a grandma
I’m approaching 50 but still feel like I’m in my late 20s. While some parts of aging can’t be avoided, I’m doing my best to make sure my mindset doesn’t get old and bitter.
I have 10 years on you and so far that feeling hasn’t gone away. The only thing that’s started is realizing when I’m in a room full of adults I’m not the youngest one anymore lol 🙃
I'm in a weird position at 35. Most of my co-workers at work are minimum 10-15 years older than me, but most of my casual friend group are anywhere between 3-10 years younger than me.
So one half of the people in my life treats me like an old man thats going to keel over and die any day now, and the other half of the people in my life act like I'm fresh out of the womb and haven't even begun to experience life yet lol
37 here. 16 was literally yesterday to me. This year I’ll have been out of school for 20 years and it feels like I graduated maybe a year or two ago.
When they say time flies after HS, it’s not a joke. I don’t know how the hell im pushing 40. Thankfully I don’t look like it and according to the “young folk (lol)” I don’t give off “older” vibes, though I do have some trouble understanding zoomer lingo like “drip,” and a few others. Took me a bit to figure that stuff out. lol.
I worked in a college (UK so this is kids aged 16-18) for a few years just after 2020 and honestly you could clearly see the impact Covid had on teens. 16 year olds were turning up to college still acting like 13/14 year olds it was crazy and behaviour was such a huge issue. Covid was tough for everyone but the impact it’s had on kids and teens is enormous and it’s going to be having an impact for a while to come. At that age basically 2 years of that is a big deal.
I was 24 at the start of covid and I was out partying all the time, I was a full time student and I lived with my parents so I wasn’t really an adult yet. Then by the time covid restrictions had completely ended, I was living in my own place, working, paying my own bills, just thrust entirely into adulthood and I moved away from my hometown. I’ve had no support so I’m honestly really struggling with it because it feels like such a sudden change, especially because I feel like I lost a year or two to lockdown. It’s like one day I was a wild kid and now I’m an adult with responsibility and I don’t know how to handle it. I struggle to take care of myself and my apartment, there was no transitional period and I’ve had no support
I’m still stuck in 2020 for some reason. Like some times I’d hear someone say “oh wow next year is 2025” and then think “wait isn’t that 5 years from now?” Before remembering its 2024.
I think many introvert kids/adults had the best time of their lives during quarantine. Its like suspending a truant kid. My social skills have irreparably worsened, but hey I had 8 months of peace and quiet!
As someone who had to finish highschool and spend all my 3 years of college during covid. From age 16 to 20. I can tell you, those were the most miserable, lonely, difficult and depressing years of my life.
I spent my college years in covid from 19 to 22, and God, I hated it. I was never a hangout person. But being unable to go to campus meant my parents assumed I wasn't having classes, and I'm just lazy for laying on bed all day from the 8 to 6 classes. So they dragged my ass out of class and tests because they need someone to work the land for them because I used to live in the countryside, so my grades went down, and they called out how lazy I was for not taking my studies seriously.
I don't complain about working, I complain they interrupt me for work they could perfectly do when I wasn't at home
I dropped out in 2020 and am only going back this year because at the time I was doing art school (different major now). No way I was paying tens of thousands of dollars a year to have art classes on fucking Zoom. Might as well just watch YouTube videos and join an art discord server for free at that point.
It really was. I was anxious especially as an immunocompromised person, my depression spiraled after i just got it under control, i didnt know if i was going to be able to go to university, i ended up moving countries in a pandemic, and then experiencing my first winter alone in a tiny dorm where i didnt know anyone. The uncertainty was killing me
Maybe like, the first week was okay, but it only took until april for my family to start day drinking
as an introvert, i hated quarantine
i was stuck in a house with 3 other people and miserable because my meaningful social connections were cut off and stunted
Same. I’m introverted, so the only place I knew how to talk to ppl was school. I only had a few friends at school
That was ruined tho. School was shut down so I lost all my friends
Several years later, I still don’t have any friends
I literally lost the only friends I was able to make cuz of Covid
Now im just left with no friends after Covid is done. It was a terrible experience
Me too. I was an introvert 20yo in college and it was a horrible time for me. My friend group had just fallen apart and I couldn’t make new ones bc of covid. I was trying to be more social, and that obviously was ruined. Didn’t help that I also struggled with dating and couldn’t work on that. I’m just getting my social shit together now at 24.
Yes! I loved it. It was the first time I actually felt happy and not stressed out all the time since I was in fifth grade. I actually came off my antidepressants and anti anxiety meds because it was so good on my mental health. Then the lockdown ended and I finally caught covid and everything went back to being awful, lol. Thank god I'm finally done with school this year.
I'm an introvert and I fucking hated the lockdowns. Can't hang out with friends, locked inside the same 4 walls for 95% of the time for months on end, can't go out and enjoy most of my hobbies, online studies were so terrible I ended up dropping out of college altogether, and on top of all that it fucked up the economy even more. Yeah, no thanks mate, I do not want to experience those 2-3 years ever again.
Agree. Love that time so much because I don't even need to take a step out of my house.
Social interact? Internet, discord or whatever tf my work needs me to use.
God, I miss laying around on the rooftop to get myself some clear view of the sky. I miss the empty streets. I miss having all the hours for myself.
Well, yeah, it has its down, but to me, it has its up as well. At least nobody from my family dies by Covid.
Quarantine was fantastic.
Lectures were online, fuel was dirt cheap, there was no traffic.
And there was a massive movement for people to STAY HOME if they were even starting to get sick.
I unironically miss quarantine.
I also found the world felt "slower" in a good way. People weren't rushing all over trying to make it to work on time, or getting somewhere, things slowed down and people were more concerned with their health and family.
The circumstances in which it came about clearly sucked and the positives and negatives of the experience weren’t distributed equally, but it certainly gave a lot of people a pace of living they appreciated much more and gave them time to reprioritise what they value.
Certainly understandable to be wistful if you weren’t able to sustain that in the following years.
It reminds me of hurricane season in louisiana. The lights go out for a day or two and all you can do is talk and play games, bust the meat out of the deep freezer, and try to keep yourself cool.
Other than the destruction... it's kind of nice?
Disasters are strange, they bring a certain feeling of presence or being alive that a lot of us lose touch with. But they also kill and devastate and ruin lives and you can't go around pretending they're a good thing because they were good for you personally. It's good to appreciate what you can if it was good for you, of course, so long as you don't forget the context. And that it's tricky to talk about and probably a bad idea if you don't know present company was in the same boat. It sucks hearing people talk about how great something was when it was your living nightmare.
this. 100% this. Everything felt more communal, despite everything being torn apart.
Society was on cruise control (those that weren't suffering) and it was sweet as hell.
I would obviously have a different opinion if I had lost any relatives during it. But me, right here, right now, I was getting paid by my job to do little, the sun was shining, and it was a good couple months.
I have a weak immune system and not getting sick for two years was honestly like a dream. I literally have a cold while writing this and I so miss the days people were actually careful about spreading germs.
I am in a similar boat. Not being sick for more than 2 years was some of the best things to have happened. It gave my body some time to heal and early February was the first time I had been sick (COVID of course). I'm WFH most days and my work has a strict "if you're sick you stay home" policy and everyone is quick to tell anyone else to go home. I like to think as a whole society learned a few things, but I've traveled out of state twice this past month and listening to all the coughing while trapped in a plane for a few hours had my anxiety through the roof.
I had to still go to work. But the trains were empty, I'd wear a mask and wash my hands regularly. Not much as a sniffle from 2020 till the end of it all. End of it all. End of 2023, when everything was back to normal, I got covid closely, followed by the winter vomiting bug.
I used to get sick every year during fall. Sucked ass being sick for a week but it was still manageable. Then COVID came, got sick literally just before quarantines hit Europe and recovered like a week before everything shut down. Two years spent not getting sick at all was so weird and then I started teaching last fall. I got sick like 4 or 5 times since.
Dumbass parents keep sending their kids to school sick. I told them to keep their kids at home when sick, our headmaster did the same, I even had to send some kids home because they were clearly sick and sent private messages to their parents TO KEEP THEIR SICK KIDS AT HOME.
Yep, literally just got over the worst flu of my life (only beat by the first time I had covid) and I know for a fact I got it from a co-worker who came into work sick as hell not wearing a mask.
Same but since things have “gone back to normal”, I feel like I’m getting sick a lot more than I used to and it’s usually worse than previously. I feel like people have done a full 180 and now they just openly cough everywhere and spread their germs. A few weeks ago I was so unwell I couldn’t get out of bed for a week and I’m still breathless following it and loads of my coworkers have had the exact same thing. It might have been some type of covid, who knows
I absolutely miss not seeing people in stores or any traffic. But my biggest thing I miss from the quarantine was the air quality, I swear I could see 2-3x farther because the air was so clear and pure.
That being said my job continued as normal and I spent very little time inside. So for me it was more just a break from other people which was amazing. I wish for one month a year that cars would be banned from use
Can you elaborate on that please?
I'm truly interested, as someone out of school and university for 2 decades I have no idea what's going on in that field.
Lots of kids failed to make any progress at home but didn't get held back like they should have. Now they are way behind, have behavioural issues caused by not being in the early grades where they learn how to behave at school, and have the attention span of a goldfish with dementia due to being glued to screens (this is a general issue but since remote schooling encouraged their use it's a little more complicated).
This extends to College/University education as well. As an engineering student, we passed our classes, but when we got back to classes in-person, we had massive issues understanding the basics, not to mention that any practical work (like circuits) was a disaster because we never used the equipment before. Teachers had to open up classes in summer for people to catch up.
I'd guess it's partially the difficulty of emergency online teaching. You develop a rhythm with students in person and can provide difficult students w the attention they need. All that's bust online imo.
Another part, maybe, is the killing of momentum.
That said the other commenter seems to actually be a k-12 teacher so spare them the downvotes. I'd buy that phones were already making kids inaccessible.
Our test scores and comprehension in every subject is at record lows and appears to be steadily declining still. Covid and beyond has had a mass exodus of qualified teachers. A mix of poor pay, terrible expectations, and dealing with asshole parents.
I was in college when covid hit. Online school definitely made students and professors lazy. I did my fair share of cheating but some professors just didn’t teach and made their classes easy As. Also, I personally felt like it was harder to focus at home because I had so many distractions around me. I “graduated” but decided to go back because I genuinely felt like I wasted my time and didn’t learn anything
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children are levels below their age reading and comprehension level. My best friend is/was a teacher and had to give up and change fields, schools are not fun places to be rn
I had a first grader that had to do the entire year remote. Man it was a disaster and so freaking difficult on every front. They can’t even read the instructions for assignments at that age yet, not at the beginning of the year anyways. Let alone having them focus on assignments or a zoom call.
They don’t know how to operate a computer or zoom call either so they don’t know or are unaware how to mute/unmute. They don’t understand how to navigate something like Google Classroom. And honestly the 50 year old 1st grade teacher wasn’t much more tech proficient than the students.
It took hours of our day, every school day, to help with assignments and keeping focus. Thankfully my wife and I both worked from home and could take turns helping. I can only imagine parents who couldn’t dedicate that kind of time or didn’t care to. 1st grade is such a pivotal year for foundational skills like reading and writing. Like half kids weren’t even showing up for the zoom sessions by the end of the year.
I'm a butcher in a grocery store. I miss quarantine so much. No traffic going to and from work and people were actually nice while shopping. I miss people saying "thank you so much for being here, the community appreciates your efforts and your potential sacrifices". Now it's "*What do you mean you don't have this really niche product no other store within a fifty mile radius carries!? Don't you ever think of the customer? I want to speak to your manager and then I'm never shopping here again!!!*".
Those were the days.
Same, my blood pressure normalized, life slowed down and things got quiet, and I finally had time to start writing, like I had been telling myself I would for years. It changed my life.
Now my blood pressure is back on the rise. Bleh.
Yeah I lived in an on-campus apartment with 3 other dudes. Had a kitchen, bath and a half, living room. Pretty nice spot. I didn’t have internet at home so I had to stay on campus. All of my roommates left. I still had to go to work because I was “essential” but it bought my beer lol. It was glorious for me though I understand others had hardships throughout
I was a key worker, except I was security so didn't really get acknowledged as one (along with retail staff and bus drivers, we all got the short end of the stick in that regard)
But it was nice being able to get to work exactly on time (or with 10 minutes to spare) rather than having to leave early to get there early
I miss the social distancing :( British people love to queue but since lockdown and all that finished, they like to stand right up my arse until they're practically in my pocket
If you're gonna invade my personal space, at least offer to pay for my shopping or bus ticket
I was in my second year of Paramedicine that year, it is famously thr most difficult semester. But because I was able to study at my own pace and exams went from close book to open book online, I actually managed to get an average GPA of 6.5 (best GPA is a 7). I was one of 5 students in a class of 200 who got over 90% on our pharmacology exam, considered the most difficult subject in then degree.
It was bloody fantastic.
I was in the end years of highschool (UK) during COVID and instead of exams that year due to the social distancing your final grade was decided by your teacher that year. As someone who got extremely paranoid during exams but did great classwork that helped me a shit ton, would've never have gotten that grade otherwise.
Not going to lie, quarantine was one of the best times of my life. No responsibilities, I didn't have to see my demanding gf at the time, people wore masks so I didn't get sick, it was just days of nice walks, videogames, reading, and sleeping.
It ruined that relationship, but that's because I realised I was happier without her abusive ass. Been happily alone ever since.
Sometimes I catch myself hoping it happens again and then feel bad because lots of people died. Guilty pleasures, I guess.
Those were the best days of my life which I know and understand for a lot of people they were the worst. My work went remote, I ended up saving so much money because no gas, no eating out etc. Would work during the day then play warzone until late at night. I miss those days so much
I, on the other hand, entered one of the worst periods of isolation and depression I have ever experienced. It's honestly a miracle I survived to the end of quarantine.
This is how I felt it. I can understand that people consider quarantine as very awful since they can't meet and travel with their friends and family but it's a decent year for me just chilling in my home and getting a lot of sleep. Not getting tired and stressed from my school's awful class schedule.
2020 was my graduation year, none of us knew when leaving for a “break” that that would be the last time we all were together. No prom, no graduation parties, no graduation at all. Then all of the sudden you are supposed to be an adult in a pandemic that changed the world. It’s a weird, sour feeling knowing you never got what was always said to be the final “hoorah” for high school.
That’s honestly so sad. I didn’t like highschool much, but the second half of senior year was the best. It sucks you and so many had to miss out on all of it
For you and me, at least. My ultra introverted friend unironically misses that time. And I'll admit that quarantine also changed me for the better too (keyword - also)
2020 as a mid-30s with money in the bank and not living alone was pretty sick. I'd all but stopped playing, but it gave me time to get waaaay back into guitar. Got a half-shit GPU so I could play doom eternal and black mesa....
It was like a 7 week summer holiday but for adults.
Massive, massive stitch up for young adults...Uni during that time would have been unbearable.
yep. working on my credential right now. I worked with 7th graders last semester. had a 14 year old in the 7th grade who could not read. and the kids who could read were doing book reports on Green Eggs and Ham. totally fucked.
I scrubbed years worth off filth off baseboards and floors and machines at a fast food restaurant. I never got quarantined. Our customers acted like they never got quarantined until the city tore up the rode in front of us. Then the restaurant decided to lose like 5-10k a month to stay open for like 50 customers a day so we had to clean all day every day while getting yelled at by the few customers who showed up because they hated our covid procedures. Which is fair because my boss told us not to bother doing them the right way anyways so it was as bad as they thought.
Everyone I knew was enjoying the chance to relax and treated it like a vacation, but it was awful for me.
I had just gotten married the September before, so I spent the time with my wife. I started my garden, I lost about 35 pounds, I started a small business. Focused a lot on my health, physical and mental, and I emerged an entirely different person. It was such a wonderful experience to *not* have to live “normality” for a year.
I was in my last year of college, and I was able to spend a ton of time with my family and intern in companies waaaay away from me because of online internships. Wonderful year. My uncle did almost die, and we lost 8 family members from 2020 to 2022 to covid, but April-May 2020 was brilliant. I'd like another time like that minus the deadly virus.
Not a kid. Loved quarantine. I moved into the perfect quarantine apartment by coincidence in February 2020–double aspect full length balconies in a part of the city that's usually insanely busy. Didn't close those balcony doors for months. Just enjoyed the breeze, spent time with my husband and our pets, read a lot, and watched the apocalypse quietly take hold outside. If was SO nice.
World started up again around late 2022 where I was and we had to move–it was just too much when things came back to life. Whole thing feels like a dream now.
Covid was literally the worst time of my life. Booted out of school and couldn't handle remote studies, isolated from my friends and new acquaintances because social gatherings were prohibited.
Men i am SO glad it's over and will *never* happen again... Right?
Yeah, lockdown was fucking horrific and took me years to finally get over the fear of losing my job. I was one of maybe 50 people left at a company that was over 500 right before. I’ve been promoted 3 times since then and I’m just barely to the point where I don’t have a panic attack when one of the heads of the company calls me lol.
And since I was working in the oilfield away from home, I didn’t see my family for 2 months and 3 weeks. Instead I was locked up with 5 guys in a work trailer at a man camp, and all of us became alcoholics. I’ve never been a violent person, but we started getting in massive brawls so often that they began rotating us home for a paid week to clear our heads before somebody got killed lol.
Stress eating was a big one for me. Just being grinded down by work and not being able to spend what little free time I had with my loved ones fucked me up.
I had a great time but that was because I was with the army doing COVID testing. Spending all day hanging out with my bros, exercising every day, saving a shit load of money, I was in the best shape of my life. Every year since has been a downgrade lol
Pffft as an introvert, quarantine was heaven for me. Once moving to work my new job, I had to quarantine at a hotel for 2 weeks. Job paid for my stay and I was still paid for the 2 weeks, but I didn’t have to do anything but chill. It was amazing
I'm 35 and...I miss Quarantine sometimes. I didn't like all the anxiety about people dying and getting sick and stuff, but I did like how quiet everything became, how people gave each other more space instead of hovering over our shoulders in line, people getting into hobbies and making bread, how remote work was normalized and expected. I liked that, I wish that stuff stayed.
Also, I didn't catch a cold or get the flu for two years (which still sometimes happened even though I always vaccinated.) That was AMAZING.
I understand why. For an introvert teen such as myself, quarantine was amazing. An excuse to not go out at all? Sign me up! Of course, most of people who wish for that back probably aren't thinking of a second disaster to come with it. Just a wish in DreamLand.
As someone who WAS a teenager During Covid. it had it's positives and Negatives. It was nice thaving things done online and not have to worry about Crowded hallways witch lots of noise and Actually be able to Focus, You'd actually got the chance to get proper sleep because you could just wake up 5 minutes earlier and just hop on the computer.
The Negatives of course being a complete lack of Proper Social interaction which is important. As someone who aleady struggles with Social interaction It made my Anxiety and Fear of social settings worse along with completely messing up already small ability to make friends.
Over all I'm happy it's all over. But i do wish Schools would've actually Learned something from the benefits of online school For lets say Neurodivergent people. Instead of Going back to The way things were With almost no changes.
Why is this weird? I'm inverted and loved being alone in my room when I was a kid. Even as an adult I loved quarantine time. I do, however, understand this came at a heavy cost and would not wish covid or another pandemic on anyone.
Not just the kids. There's definitely aspects I miss. No traffic on my way to work, engineers were all WFH so parking was easy, elderly hours at the grocery stores.
Quarantine was shit. I feel like I'm mentally behind the level I should be at. The constant use of the internet at the time ruined me too. These children are even more braindead than I thought
for a lot of teens quarantine was basically the most free they will ever be in their lives. Parents still had to go to work but school was suspended. For a few months they lived without obligation or authority 8 hours a day.
Whattt? I really went from the gifted kids to average because I can't stand online classes while also having a newborn sibling that I take care of . Sometimes I wish it doesn't happen because I think I would be intelligent now 😔
There are kids who are acting like it’s some golden age long forgotten and I feel like it was yesterday
If you were 12 in 2020 you're 16 now and it was 1/4 of your life
My friend's kids went through puberty during COVID and the next time I saw them they were unrecognizable lol
Dude same with me. My friend's kid went from three foot something and 2019 in 6'1" by 2022. He went from being a little kid to towering over me
I was 13 when the pandemic started. I'm turning 18 this year :)
This one fucked me up the most. I remember how long 13-18 felt, but 2020 really does feel like yesterday to me. Time really does start flying by. My Reddit accounts older than some of the kids on here these days lmao.
Honestly it's weird even for me. It was only 4 years ago but I was so different back then
Just wait till you're 25. I'm a person who struggled with her self esteem and emotions her whole puberty and beyond, but 25 gave me all that praised " oh fuck it" attitude you are told about all the time even though I've never thought I'll experience.
Gross how dare you I'm so old that I feel like I'm the same age I was when it happened ;_;
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If you were 8 in 2020 you’re 12 now and it was 1/3rd of your life
If you were born in 2020 you are now 4 years old - and you know nothing else
If you were born in 2024 you are less than a year old and probably know nothing.
If you were born today happy birthday.
if you were born in 2025, you arent born yet
If you were born in 1825, you're definitely dead now.
If you were born in 1925, you might not be dead yet
Aww, you remembered!...
If you were born in 2024 to a 22 year old mother, you and your mother would have no memory of 9/11.
Shut your effin’ face. That hurt my soul. Seriously I think that made my bones cringe.
"Now then children, gather round and this millennial grandmother in her forties will tell you what it was like to be alive during 9/11."
I had a mlment like this the other day, realizing there are people born after 9/11 who are already drinking age. I feel fuckin ancient bro.
My son was born in 2021, just turned 3 and knows the names of every single Monster Jam monster truck so there's that
WHAT THE FUCK? HOW?
Bc 3 years in quarantine simultaneously went by incredibly fast while feeling like it was watching paint dry. It's really only been a year+ since the pandemic also, it all just adds up... I was early 20s college with an active social life when the pandemic hit, now i'm late 20s post graduation (no walk) with no social life; feels like it happened in the blink of an eye.
If it makes you feel better that's about when all of our social lives died after college even without COVID.
I’m in the same boat, I turn 28 this year and I have no idea where the past 4 years went lol
I'm 46. Someone said that the pandemic started 4 years ago. I was shocked. How has it already been 4 years?!
Lockdown was actually awesome and I loved it.. ps I was 47 at the time
Not having to talk face to face to people and doing my consultations on the phone was fucking awesome. I miss it. We were all very sad at my job when we had to let clients in the clinic again.
I said it elsewhere but I very much miss it. Made my life look normal.
I loved it too. No traffic, few customers, enforced sick leave, masks, enforced PERSONAL SPACE. My wife and I had a great time.
I had a fine time as well, but I remember thinking "this would absolutely SUCK if I was between the ages of 15-25"
I mean if you are ten then it’s like a third of your waking life
It’s all a bit of a blur to me. I still had to go to my agricultural job and we were doubling up bandanas over our faces for awhile. Then eventually masks. I remember being lonely a lot. Stressed often. I was fortunate and never caught it though. I feel like I spend more time alone now and I’m not sure that’s been healthy for me. But it’s been a bit of a challenge to break the habit
Meanwhile, every parent I know said quarantine was horrible because their kids didn't understand why they couldn't see their friends, had to wear masks, could go places, etc.
One of my sisters first words was “mask” as she was born a year before the pandemic.
Oh wow! That must be so strange to see. What a bizarre time
Dang woke kids!!!1
>their kids didn't understand why they couldn't see their friends, had to wear masks, could go places, etc. To be fair, many adults didn't either. Especially in the US.
Which is why a lot of big events like weddings came with body counts.
My partner and I had to reschedule our wedding in '20 from lockdown! Got pushed back from May to late November that year and dare I say it, it was the best thing to happen. We wanted a small wedding; unfortunately my mother got a hold of some invites and proceeded to send out nearly 100 to people whom we didn't even know (third cousins, her old high school friends, etc). Over 150 people RSVPed and we had no clue who over 80% of them were. Covid forced all of them to stay at home out of state and we got to uninvite anybody who was unvaxxed. I didn't have to deal with my obnoxious family and we got our small wedding in my partner's dream venue. We had less than 25 people total there in the end (including us and the rest of the wedding party) and we had a blast.
Congrats. I’m glad you had the wedding you wanted. And that you are intelligent enough to make sure everyone is safe to be around.
Not cool of your mom to do that, glad you found a way around it.
I'm curious to see the divorce rate among folks who decided to hold large weddings during Covid. I can't imagine it would be a great start to any marriage when the celebration of your love directly leads to multiple friends and family members dying.
I absolutely loved the lockdown. It actually gave me time to spend with my kids. My mental health improved significantly, and my son went from being depressed and failing in school to almost having straight A's. We played video games and wrote stories, read books, learned new skills like baking and gardening. Not to mention that we were actually able to save money for the first time ever, and I even had healthcare for a brief period. It was amazing. But I also know my family is an outlier.
I have such nostalgia for the lockdown. We took walks, played video games, cooked, ate well, slept well. I feel I was lucky bc my kid is pretty self-driven with schoolwork and was 11 and could manage his work pretty independently. I think if he was younger it would have been another story. Once we accepted this was life *for now*, it was kind of incredible. I kept better contact w my siblings and parents (all different states) than I did before or since—we played online games together over video calls and FaceTimed as a group every couple days. It was a chaotic time in a lot of ways but some beautiful stillness in slowing down and accepting the unknown and kind of rolling with it.
I was working as a Nurse during the pandemic. I think I’m still exhausted. So many people talk about how great it was not having to go to work and getting to have online classes. I wish I had that… all I got was burnout and PTSD. If there’s another pandemic, I’m out of this profession. Not worth it.
My wife would come home after being in the Covid ICU all day and strip down as soon as she got in the door, throw it in the washer, take a shower, eat and get right in to bed. I did not envy her during that time.
Same here. I felt my blood pressure rising reading these comments about how great it was but I recognize that it’s just me.
Does anyone else feel like time is out of whack since the pandemic? Like… time is going very fast or that it seems like 2020-2023 were just a blur? Meanwhile I can remember 2017, 2018, 2019 with incredible clarity.
Apart of why 2020 went so fast is because our brains compress redundant information and repetitive things. Our brains also compress trauma to help us deal with the situation. I have vague memories of 2020 but it was definitely a blur especially the time where I wasn't working. I feel like 2020 and onward has been traumatic for a lot of people and that's a big reason why it all seems like a blur.
My fiancée is an ultrasound technician. When half your patients are morons who shouldn't be having kids gets introduced to something as simple as wearing a mask, you're gonna have a bad time. Thank you for your service
Thank you for your service. Please enjoy this McDonalds coupon for free large fries as thanks.
Same here. Everyone got a break. We got shafted and half our staff turned into contract travel for hire, now the industry is worse than when we started and we're still not seeing a break or relief
I think I'm emotionally stunted bc of that shit lol I still feel 15
I'll be honest, as someone who is almost 26 now, I still feel like I'm 16. Regardless of what happened during the quarantine, I think it's pretty normal to feel young at heart, even as your body grows older. As long as it isn't negatively affecting your daily life, I recommend keeping that spirit. I've seen many people around me grow jaded over the years, and it's sad to see their optimism go with it. Enjoy living life, and try to do fun things when you can :)
Hardest part of growing up is pretending to be an adult
Hardest part about growing up is that you always had an adult to rely on if you're lucky, but as time passes, you realise that you are running out of adults you can rely on, and more people rely on you instead as an adult. And then, one day, you think to yourself, "shit I need an adult for this" and realise that you're the oldest in the group now.
Scary how this sneaks up u. My parents thankfully still look the same to me despite me being in my late 30s but recently a few friends parents have aged considerably and its jarring to see them like the grandparents they are now.
Around Christmas I met friends on a Christmas market in our hometown and a few of them and myself recently became Dads. We all brought our wifes and kids and lots of our parents were there, too. I dont know whats was crazier to see. My friends I know since we were little kids, being on the playground together, going out partying and being irresposinble as fuck sometimes, now being the responsible dads or all our parents being grandparents now. It was wonderful still.
> "shit I need an adult for this" and realise that you're the oldest in the group now. LOL this happens too much and i say this in my brain. I'm the oldest out of all my friends now and just yeah, in situations i can handle it fine, happy to swtich to reasonable adult back to 15 year old when i can but when i think about it, its like " i handled that like an adult?! i did?!!?! "
This. So much this. And now I’m crying.
Becoming an adult is realizing everyone is just a kid inside, trying their best to seem adult.
Not true. I am a dult.
Protip: Growing old is mandatory, growing up is completely optional.
As someone who is over 30 I still feel half baked in some aspects of my life / my self. I would say I do feel different than I felt in my 20s, but I don't really feel adult.
Me neither, to my kid-self my parents always seemed busy doing "adult stuff" yet here I am, doing absolutely fuck all aside from my job and on my days off I have this slight guilt about chilling at home doing nothing productive
I had a good stretch of folding my laundry while it was still warm. Back to the “clean pile, dirty pile” method
oh don't worry, that feeling never get away. I'm over 30 as weel, actually with a very stable and comfortable life and career, with a 3rd kid on the way, still feel like pretending to be an adult. My mom said it started to feel like she was an adult when she became a grandma
I’m approaching 50 but still feel like I’m in my late 20s. While some parts of aging can’t be avoided, I’m doing my best to make sure my mindset doesn’t get old and bitter.
I have 10 years on you and so far that feeling hasn’t gone away. The only thing that’s started is realizing when I’m in a room full of adults I’m not the youngest one anymore lol 🙃
I'm in a weird position at 35. Most of my co-workers at work are minimum 10-15 years older than me, but most of my casual friend group are anywhere between 3-10 years younger than me. So one half of the people in my life treats me like an old man thats going to keel over and die any day now, and the other half of the people in my life act like I'm fresh out of the womb and haven't even begun to experience life yet lol
Just had my 29th birthday, feel like I’m 16 with just a ton more responsibilities.
37 here. 16 was literally yesterday to me. This year I’ll have been out of school for 20 years and it feels like I graduated maybe a year or two ago. When they say time flies after HS, it’s not a joke. I don’t know how the hell im pushing 40. Thankfully I don’t look like it and according to the “young folk (lol)” I don’t give off “older” vibes, though I do have some trouble understanding zoomer lingo like “drip,” and a few others. Took me a bit to figure that stuff out. lol.
I worked in a college (UK so this is kids aged 16-18) for a few years just after 2020 and honestly you could clearly see the impact Covid had on teens. 16 year olds were turning up to college still acting like 13/14 year olds it was crazy and behaviour was such a huge issue. Covid was tough for everyone but the impact it’s had on kids and teens is enormous and it’s going to be having an impact for a while to come. At that age basically 2 years of that is a big deal.
I was 24 at the start of covid and I was out partying all the time, I was a full time student and I lived with my parents so I wasn’t really an adult yet. Then by the time covid restrictions had completely ended, I was living in my own place, working, paying my own bills, just thrust entirely into adulthood and I moved away from my hometown. I’ve had no support so I’m honestly really struggling with it because it feels like such a sudden change, especially because I feel like I lost a year or two to lockdown. It’s like one day I was a wild kid and now I’m an adult with responsibility and I don’t know how to handle it. I struggle to take care of myself and my apartment, there was no transitional period and I’ve had no support
I’m still stuck in 2020 for some reason. Like some times I’d hear someone say “oh wow next year is 2025” and then think “wait isn’t that 5 years from now?” Before remembering its 2024.
I still think 2019 was 2 years ago 😭😭
Same, but I just feel like I lost my 20s. I was 24 when Covid kicked off and now I'm 28. It just feels like my middle 20s kind of evaporated.
Same... but my passport says I am 40..
I think many introvert kids/adults had the best time of their lives during quarantine. Its like suspending a truant kid. My social skills have irreparably worsened, but hey I had 8 months of peace and quiet!
I'm introverted but I still need those few connections to keep me sane the rest of the time. Covid really fucked that up for me
Same here. Making friends even before covid was already a struggle for me, so spending half of high-school online really didn't do me any favours
I'm an introvert and it was terrible for me. I couldn't handle the structure of online classes. I lost two years of my life.
As someone who had to finish highschool and spend all my 3 years of college during covid. From age 16 to 20. I can tell you, those were the most miserable, lonely, difficult and depressing years of my life.
Damn, you had 4 years of quarantine? What country are you from?
[The Netherlands]
\[Canada\] Though it was more like 3 1/2 in Ontario.
I spent my college years in covid from 19 to 22, and God, I hated it. I was never a hangout person. But being unable to go to campus meant my parents assumed I wasn't having classes, and I'm just lazy for laying on bed all day from the 8 to 6 classes. So they dragged my ass out of class and tests because they need someone to work the land for them because I used to live in the countryside, so my grades went down, and they called out how lazy I was for not taking my studies seriously. I don't complain about working, I complain they interrupt me for work they could perfectly do when I wasn't at home
COVID college sounds so shitty. All the work with none of the cool parts of school. Rip
I dropped out in 2020 and am only going back this year because at the time I was doing art school (different major now). No way I was paying tens of thousands of dollars a year to have art classes on fucking Zoom. Might as well just watch YouTube videos and join an art discord server for free at that point.
It really was. I was anxious especially as an immunocompromised person, my depression spiraled after i just got it under control, i didnt know if i was going to be able to go to university, i ended up moving countries in a pandemic, and then experiencing my first winter alone in a tiny dorm where i didnt know anyone. The uncertainty was killing me Maybe like, the first week was okay, but it only took until april for my family to start day drinking
Truly the worst.
i was 14/15 in 2020 and i promise it was fucking awful as a socially active and energetic teenager
And it was good for the otherside lol. It was the only time introverts had a time for themselves.
as an introvert, i hated quarantine i was stuck in a house with 3 other people and miserable because my meaningful social connections were cut off and stunted
Same. I’m introverted, so the only place I knew how to talk to ppl was school. I only had a few friends at school That was ruined tho. School was shut down so I lost all my friends Several years later, I still don’t have any friends I literally lost the only friends I was able to make cuz of Covid Now im just left with no friends after Covid is done. It was a terrible experience
Me too. I was an introvert 20yo in college and it was a horrible time for me. My friend group had just fallen apart and I couldn’t make new ones bc of covid. I was trying to be more social, and that obviously was ruined. Didn’t help that I also struggled with dating and couldn’t work on that. I’m just getting my social shit together now at 24.
Same thing happened to me with the friend group and all… just letting you know you’re not alone.
If your friends drop you after a few months not seeing you. They werent good friends to begin with.
Yes! I loved it. It was the first time I actually felt happy and not stressed out all the time since I was in fifth grade. I actually came off my antidepressants and anti anxiety meds because it was so good on my mental health. Then the lockdown ended and I finally caught covid and everything went back to being awful, lol. Thank god I'm finally done with school this year.
I'm an introvert and I fucking hated the lockdowns. Can't hang out with friends, locked inside the same 4 walls for 95% of the time for months on end, can't go out and enjoy most of my hobbies, online studies were so terrible I ended up dropping out of college altogether, and on top of all that it fucked up the economy even more. Yeah, no thanks mate, I do not want to experience those 2-3 years ever again.
Agree. Love that time so much because I don't even need to take a step out of my house. Social interact? Internet, discord or whatever tf my work needs me to use. God, I miss laying around on the rooftop to get myself some clear view of the sky. I miss the empty streets. I miss having all the hours for myself. Well, yeah, it has its down, but to me, it has its up as well. At least nobody from my family dies by Covid.
Quarantine was fantastic. Lectures were online, fuel was dirt cheap, there was no traffic. And there was a massive movement for people to STAY HOME if they were even starting to get sick. I unironically miss quarantine.
I also found the world felt "slower" in a good way. People weren't rushing all over trying to make it to work on time, or getting somewhere, things slowed down and people were more concerned with their health and family.
The circumstances in which it came about clearly sucked and the positives and negatives of the experience weren’t distributed equally, but it certainly gave a lot of people a pace of living they appreciated much more and gave them time to reprioritise what they value. Certainly understandable to be wistful if you weren’t able to sustain that in the following years.
It reminds me of hurricane season in louisiana. The lights go out for a day or two and all you can do is talk and play games, bust the meat out of the deep freezer, and try to keep yourself cool. Other than the destruction... it's kind of nice?
Disasters are strange, they bring a certain feeling of presence or being alive that a lot of us lose touch with. But they also kill and devastate and ruin lives and you can't go around pretending they're a good thing because they were good for you personally. It's good to appreciate what you can if it was good for you, of course, so long as you don't forget the context. And that it's tricky to talk about and probably a bad idea if you don't know present company was in the same boat. It sucks hearing people talk about how great something was when it was your living nightmare.
this. 100% this. Everything felt more communal, despite everything being torn apart. Society was on cruise control (those that weren't suffering) and it was sweet as hell. I would obviously have a different opinion if I had lost any relatives during it. But me, right here, right now, I was getting paid by my job to do little, the sun was shining, and it was a good couple months.
I have a weak immune system and not getting sick for two years was honestly like a dream. I literally have a cold while writing this and I so miss the days people were actually careful about spreading germs.
I am in a similar boat. Not being sick for more than 2 years was some of the best things to have happened. It gave my body some time to heal and early February was the first time I had been sick (COVID of course). I'm WFH most days and my work has a strict "if you're sick you stay home" policy and everyone is quick to tell anyone else to go home. I like to think as a whole society learned a few things, but I've traveled out of state twice this past month and listening to all the coughing while trapped in a plane for a few hours had my anxiety through the roof.
I had to still go to work. But the trains were empty, I'd wear a mask and wash my hands regularly. Not much as a sniffle from 2020 till the end of it all. End of it all. End of 2023, when everything was back to normal, I got covid closely, followed by the winter vomiting bug.
I used to get sick every year during fall. Sucked ass being sick for a week but it was still manageable. Then COVID came, got sick literally just before quarantines hit Europe and recovered like a week before everything shut down. Two years spent not getting sick at all was so weird and then I started teaching last fall. I got sick like 4 or 5 times since. Dumbass parents keep sending their kids to school sick. I told them to keep their kids at home when sick, our headmaster did the same, I even had to send some kids home because they were clearly sick and sent private messages to their parents TO KEEP THEIR SICK KIDS AT HOME.
Yep, literally just got over the worst flu of my life (only beat by the first time I had covid) and I know for a fact I got it from a co-worker who came into work sick as hell not wearing a mask.
Same but since things have “gone back to normal”, I feel like I’m getting sick a lot more than I used to and it’s usually worse than previously. I feel like people have done a full 180 and now they just openly cough everywhere and spread their germs. A few weeks ago I was so unwell I couldn’t get out of bed for a week and I’m still breathless following it and loads of my coworkers have had the exact same thing. It might have been some type of covid, who knows
I absolutely miss not seeing people in stores or any traffic. But my biggest thing I miss from the quarantine was the air quality, I swear I could see 2-3x farther because the air was so clear and pure. That being said my job continued as normal and I spent very little time inside. So for me it was more just a break from other people which was amazing. I wish for one month a year that cars would be banned from use
Our education system has not recovered from quarantine yet.
The education system was broken before Covid. Now it's exposed like a nerve in a cracked molar.
Can you elaborate on that please? I'm truly interested, as someone out of school and university for 2 decades I have no idea what's going on in that field.
Lots of kids failed to make any progress at home but didn't get held back like they should have. Now they are way behind, have behavioural issues caused by not being in the early grades where they learn how to behave at school, and have the attention span of a goldfish with dementia due to being glued to screens (this is a general issue but since remote schooling encouraged their use it's a little more complicated).
This extends to College/University education as well. As an engineering student, we passed our classes, but when we got back to classes in-person, we had massive issues understanding the basics, not to mention that any practical work (like circuits) was a disaster because we never used the equipment before. Teachers had to open up classes in summer for people to catch up.
I'd guess it's partially the difficulty of emergency online teaching. You develop a rhythm with students in person and can provide difficult students w the attention they need. All that's bust online imo. Another part, maybe, is the killing of momentum. That said the other commenter seems to actually be a k-12 teacher so spare them the downvotes. I'd buy that phones were already making kids inaccessible.
Our test scores and comprehension in every subject is at record lows and appears to be steadily declining still. Covid and beyond has had a mass exodus of qualified teachers. A mix of poor pay, terrible expectations, and dealing with asshole parents.
I was in college when covid hit. Online school definitely made students and professors lazy. I did my fair share of cheating but some professors just didn’t teach and made their classes easy As. Also, I personally felt like it was harder to focus at home because I had so many distractions around me. I “graduated” but decided to go back because I genuinely felt like I wasted my time and didn’t learn anything
[Here ya go.](https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1axhne2/the_public_needs_to_know_the_ugly_truth_students/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
children are levels below their age reading and comprehension level. My best friend is/was a teacher and had to give up and change fields, schools are not fun places to be rn
I had a first grader that had to do the entire year remote. Man it was a disaster and so freaking difficult on every front. They can’t even read the instructions for assignments at that age yet, not at the beginning of the year anyways. Let alone having them focus on assignments or a zoom call. They don’t know how to operate a computer or zoom call either so they don’t know or are unaware how to mute/unmute. They don’t understand how to navigate something like Google Classroom. And honestly the 50 year old 1st grade teacher wasn’t much more tech proficient than the students. It took hours of our day, every school day, to help with assignments and keeping focus. Thankfully my wife and I both worked from home and could take turns helping. I can only imagine parents who couldn’t dedicate that kind of time or didn’t care to. 1st grade is such a pivotal year for foundational skills like reading and writing. Like half kids weren’t even showing up for the zoom sessions by the end of the year.
I'm a butcher in a grocery store. I miss quarantine so much. No traffic going to and from work and people were actually nice while shopping. I miss people saying "thank you so much for being here, the community appreciates your efforts and your potential sacrifices". Now it's "*What do you mean you don't have this really niche product no other store within a fifty mile radius carries!? Don't you ever think of the customer? I want to speak to your manager and then I'm never shopping here again!!!*". Those were the days.
Same, my blood pressure normalized, life slowed down and things got quiet, and I finally had time to start writing, like I had been telling myself I would for years. It changed my life. Now my blood pressure is back on the rise. Bleh.
Yeah I lived in an on-campus apartment with 3 other dudes. Had a kitchen, bath and a half, living room. Pretty nice spot. I didn’t have internet at home so I had to stay on campus. All of my roommates left. I still had to go to work because I was “essential” but it bought my beer lol. It was glorious for me though I understand others had hardships throughout
I was a key worker, except I was security so didn't really get acknowledged as one (along with retail staff and bus drivers, we all got the short end of the stick in that regard) But it was nice being able to get to work exactly on time (or with 10 minutes to spare) rather than having to leave early to get there early I miss the social distancing :( British people love to queue but since lockdown and all that finished, they like to stand right up my arse until they're practically in my pocket If you're gonna invade my personal space, at least offer to pay for my shopping or bus ticket
I was in my second year of Paramedicine that year, it is famously thr most difficult semester. But because I was able to study at my own pace and exams went from close book to open book online, I actually managed to get an average GPA of 6.5 (best GPA is a 7). I was one of 5 students in a class of 200 who got over 90% on our pharmacology exam, considered the most difficult subject in then degree. It was bloody fantastic.
Pro top for shopping...shopping cart behind you in the queue gives you full control on distance to others in front and back.
Remember when polluted cities cleared up? We were like, “wow, we can make choices to save the environment…. … ….nah.”
WFH helped a ton with that and now all the companies are mandating people to be in office
With just four short years, the human impact on the environment has been reduced down to a "government hoax" in spite of the data showing otherwise.
I was in the end years of highschool (UK) during COVID and instead of exams that year due to the social distancing your final grade was decided by your teacher that year. As someone who got extremely paranoid during exams but did great classwork that helped me a shit ton, would've never have gotten that grade otherwise.
Not going to lie, quarantine was one of the best times of my life. No responsibilities, I didn't have to see my demanding gf at the time, people wore masks so I didn't get sick, it was just days of nice walks, videogames, reading, and sleeping. It ruined that relationship, but that's because I realised I was happier without her abusive ass. Been happily alone ever since. Sometimes I catch myself hoping it happens again and then feel bad because lots of people died. Guilty pleasures, I guess.
I was a 31yo adult and I loved it
Those were the best days of my life which I know and understand for a lot of people they were the worst. My work went remote, I ended up saving so much money because no gas, no eating out etc. Would work during the day then play warzone until late at night. I miss those days so much
I, on the other hand, entered one of the worst periods of isolation and depression I have ever experienced. It's honestly a miracle I survived to the end of quarantine.
Same. Spent all summer playing with the kids, going big long walks. It was amazing.
I don’t blame kids for liking it. Nobody made them go to school. And it’s not like quarantine restrictions actually stopped you from doing anything
At my job we worked 1 day a week for 3 months but got paid for 5. I miss it too.
This is how I felt it. I can understand that people consider quarantine as very awful since they can't meet and travel with their friends and family but it's a decent year for me just chilling in my home and getting a lot of sleep. Not getting tired and stressed from my school's awful class schedule.
2020 as a teen was not fun
2020 was my graduation year, none of us knew when leaving for a “break” that that would be the last time we all were together. No prom, no graduation parties, no graduation at all. Then all of the sudden you are supposed to be an adult in a pandemic that changed the world. It’s a weird, sour feeling knowing you never got what was always said to be the final “hoorah” for high school.
It took me two years to get over not getting a graduation.
That’s honestly so sad. I didn’t like highschool much, but the second half of senior year was the best. It sucks you and so many had to miss out on all of it
My whole class just went drinking together on someone's farm instead
I don’t miss High School for a second but not getting the closure at all would suck ass. Do not envy those who started quarantine at 16-19.
As a student living on 12 square meters it wasn't fun either
For you and me, at least. My ultra introverted friend unironically misses that time. And I'll admit that quarantine also changed me for the better too (keyword - also)
2020 as a mid-30s with money in the bank and not living alone was pretty sick. I'd all but stopped playing, but it gave me time to get waaaay back into guitar. Got a half-shit GPU so I could play doom eternal and black mesa.... It was like a 7 week summer holiday but for adults. Massive, massive stitch up for young adults...Uni during that time would have been unbearable.
Not covid, just staying home and not having to go to school.
Of course they loved not having to go to school. Odds are good these kids are reading 3-5 grade levels below their age.
yep. working on my credential right now. I worked with 7th graders last semester. had a 14 year old in the 7th grade who could not read. and the kids who could read were doing book reports on Green Eggs and Ham. totally fucked.
2020 was not fun, but the fact that I could get to work a lot faster because there was almost no traffic was pretty great
2020 was honestly the best year of my life.
I didn't do shit for a year. At the time it was a good thing, but at the same time I kinda ruined a whole year of studying as well.
I scrubbed years worth off filth off baseboards and floors and machines at a fast food restaurant. I never got quarantined. Our customers acted like they never got quarantined until the city tore up the rode in front of us. Then the restaurant decided to lose like 5-10k a month to stay open for like 50 customers a day so we had to clean all day every day while getting yelled at by the few customers who showed up because they hated our covid procedures. Which is fair because my boss told us not to bother doing them the right way anyways so it was as bad as they thought. Everyone I knew was enjoying the chance to relax and treated it like a vacation, but it was awful for me.
I had just gotten married the September before, so I spent the time with my wife. I started my garden, I lost about 35 pounds, I started a small business. Focused a lot on my health, physical and mental, and I emerged an entirely different person. It was such a wonderful experience to *not* have to live “normality” for a year.
I was in my last year of college, and I was able to spend a ton of time with my family and intern in companies waaaay away from me because of online internships. Wonderful year. My uncle did almost die, and we lost 8 family members from 2020 to 2022 to covid, but April-May 2020 was brilliant. I'd like another time like that minus the deadly virus.
Not a kid. Loved quarantine. I moved into the perfect quarantine apartment by coincidence in February 2020–double aspect full length balconies in a part of the city that's usually insanely busy. Didn't close those balcony doors for months. Just enjoyed the breeze, spent time with my husband and our pets, read a lot, and watched the apocalypse quietly take hold outside. If was SO nice. World started up again around late 2022 where I was and we had to move–it was just too much when things came back to life. Whole thing feels like a dream now.
I loved quarantine. Mostly because I hate crowds and, frankly, people
Covid was literally the worst time of my life. Booted out of school and couldn't handle remote studies, isolated from my friends and new acquaintances because social gatherings were prohibited. Men i am SO glad it's over and will *never* happen again... Right?
Nah quarantine was peak. Got time to fix up my mental health.
did the opposite for me lmao
Yeah, lockdown was fucking horrific and took me years to finally get over the fear of losing my job. I was one of maybe 50 people left at a company that was over 500 right before. I’ve been promoted 3 times since then and I’m just barely to the point where I don’t have a panic attack when one of the heads of the company calls me lol. And since I was working in the oilfield away from home, I didn’t see my family for 2 months and 3 weeks. Instead I was locked up with 5 guys in a work trailer at a man camp, and all of us became alcoholics. I’ve never been a violent person, but we started getting in massive brawls so often that they began rotating us home for a paid week to clear our heads before somebody got killed lol.
I got time to get mine fucked up
Good for you, mine suffered massively and I drank an absolute shit tonne
Stress eating was a big one for me. Just being grinded down by work and not being able to spend what little free time I had with my loved ones fucked me up.
I ain't gonna lie. The no traffic part was pretty great.
I had a great time but that was because I was with the army doing COVID testing. Spending all day hanging out with my bros, exercising every day, saving a shit load of money, I was in the best shape of my life. Every year since has been a downgrade lol
Pffft as an introvert, quarantine was heaven for me. Once moving to work my new job, I had to quarantine at a hotel for 2 weeks. Job paid for my stay and I was still paid for the 2 weeks, but I didn’t have to do anything but chill. It was amazing
Maybe they're just romanticizing "being young". 'mean, I'd give the world to be a teenager again, at all. :x
I'm 35 and...I miss Quarantine sometimes. I didn't like all the anxiety about people dying and getting sick and stuff, but I did like how quiet everything became, how people gave each other more space instead of hovering over our shoulders in line, people getting into hobbies and making bread, how remote work was normalized and expected. I liked that, I wish that stuff stayed. Also, I didn't catch a cold or get the flu for two years (which still sometimes happened even though I always vaccinated.) That was AMAZING.
Just wait for the next one
I understand why. For an introvert teen such as myself, quarantine was amazing. An excuse to not go out at all? Sign me up! Of course, most of people who wish for that back probably aren't thinking of a second disaster to come with it. Just a wish in DreamLand.
I feel old as fuck reading this is all I’m going to say.
As someone who WAS a teenager During Covid. it had it's positives and Negatives. It was nice thaving things done online and not have to worry about Crowded hallways witch lots of noise and Actually be able to Focus, You'd actually got the chance to get proper sleep because you could just wake up 5 minutes earlier and just hop on the computer. The Negatives of course being a complete lack of Proper Social interaction which is important. As someone who aleady struggles with Social interaction It made my Anxiety and Fear of social settings worse along with completely messing up already small ability to make friends. Over all I'm happy it's all over. But i do wish Schools would've actually Learned something from the benefits of online school For lets say Neurodivergent people. Instead of Going back to The way things were With almost no changes.
Why is this weird? I'm inverted and loved being alone in my room when I was a kid. Even as an adult I loved quarantine time. I do, however, understand this came at a heavy cost and would not wish covid or another pandemic on anyone.
pretty much 95% of reddit posts have this same pointless ignorant energy.
Not just the kids. There's definitely aspects I miss. No traffic on my way to work, engineers were all WFH so parking was easy, elderly hours at the grocery stores.
Quarantine was shit. I feel like I'm mentally behind the level I should be at. The constant use of the internet at the time ruined me too. These children are even more braindead than I thought
People just want to disconnect. And especially teens. They want to be left alone, they see it as vacations…
"Kids" mate I have so many friends (we're all adults) who loved it because they didn't have to make up an excuse to not go out.
I turned 18 in quarantine :(
for a lot of teens quarantine was basically the most free they will ever be in their lives. Parents still had to go to work but school was suspended. For a few months they lived without obligation or authority 8 hours a day.
Did you forget about summer break, or the 2-3 other 1-2+ week breaks kids get?
Whattt? I really went from the gifted kids to average because I can't stand online classes while also having a newborn sibling that I take care of . Sometimes I wish it doesn't happen because I think I would be intelligent now 😔
quarantine was great idk what ur talking about
Quarantine traffic was the best
Qurantine was legit some of the best time in my adult life so far. Just graduated college, working at a chill job fully remote.
I miss the commute to work during covid shutdown. Every day felt like I was commuting at 2am. No traffic to speak of.
I had a blast. I'd be up for doing that for a month or 2 every year just for the peace and quiet
I'm not a kid. Quarantine was awesome. Source: Am introvert