Covid. The big shift

[Anonymous]

Toilet paper rolls never returned to their pre-pandemic thickness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I'm better for it. Made decisions that improved my happiness. I have way more work life balance. We made so many changes that drastically improved our lives and made us a closer, happier family. It sucks that it was all brought on by something that caused a lot of death and misery.

+1. My life is so much better post-Covid it's almost hard to believe.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if folks who feel some big shift have kids?

I have two in school and it’s like it never happened, thank god. I work in an in-person job which I prefer. Grateful I didn’t have an industry that stuck with remote work as I found it depressing and isolating. My spouse does have some lingering covid issues but they’re managed.

It feels like a distant haze and I guarantee you kids and teens never ever think about it and didn’t feel some big shift to them.

[Anonymous]

Oh yeah and everyone shakes hands again.

That one is weird from the PP.

[Anonymous]

I think things are gradually going back to “normal”, as they do after any pandemic. Covid did hasten the acceptance of things like WFH and video calls, but that was going to happen eventually anyway.

When I say “the before times” I still mean pre 9/11. Those of you born after about 1985 or so really have no idea how much things have changed.

[Anonymous]

I was charge on one of the Covid units. I've learned to be more assertive, trust my instinct more, and advocate harder. By the end, I was scarily accurate on predicting patient outcomes and figuring out what they needed.

I'm sure there negatives to what I went through, but I learned long ago to only concentrate on the positives

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Anonymous wrote:I think things are gradually going back to “normal”, as they do after any pandemic. Covid did hasten the acceptance of things like WFH and video calls, but that was going to happen eventually anyway.

When I say “the before times” I still mean pre 9/11. Those of you born after about 1985 or so really have no idea how much things have changed.

That is interesting. I agree 9/11 brought far more permanent changes to life.

[Anonymous]

My social life and plans with my friends-but-not-best-friends has not recovered. Neighborhood events never recovered. Attendance at school events is still way down. I feel like my kids (teens) social circles has shrunk too. None of this feels for the better.

Also, the MS and HS teachers are still teaching like it’s virtual school. All on Chromebooks. No lessons and hands on teaching anymore.

[Anonymous]

One daughter was a senior in HS in ‘20-‘21, the other was an eighth grader. Lack of socialization and more time spent online pretty much ruined their lives. They are not the same.

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Anonymous wrote:I wonder if folks who feel some big shift have kids?

I have two in school and it’s like it never happened, thank god. I work in an in-person job which I prefer. Grateful I didn’t have an industry that stuck with remote work as I found it depressing and isolating. My spouse does have some lingering covid issues but they’re managed.

It feels like a distant haze and I guarantee you kids and teens never ever think about it and didn’t feel some big shift to them.

My teenager has a good friend who is still not permitted to hang out indoors, so there are a few who haven’t escaped it yet.

Save for the fact that my own kids have had Covid in the past few weeks, we don’t think about it much anymore, but I think its effect on our family dynamic is still alive and well. We became closer in a good way, but also maybe a bit cloistered sometimes, and it takes a little effort to encourage my kids to break free from us and get out into the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was charge on one of the Covid units. I've learned to be more assertive, trust my instinct more, and advocate harder. By the end, I was scarily accurate on predicting patient outcomes and figuring out what they needed.

I'm sure there negatives to what I went through, but I learned long ago to only concentrate on the positives

I still remember smoking on planes. Ashtrays in armrests, and just stick the smoking passengers in the back few rows.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think things are gradually going back to “normal”, as they do after any pandemic. Covid did hasten the acceptance of things like WFH and video calls, but that was going to happen eventually anyway.

When I say “the before times” I still mean pre 9/11. Those of you born after about 1985 or so really have no idea how much things have changed.

That is interesting. I agree 9/11 brought far more permanent changes to life.

I don’t know. I lived in NYC on 9/11 and experienced the aftermath up close, and yes, a lot of things changed in very obvious ways. But the Covid shift feels like more of a slow burner—insidious and impossible to quantify just yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My social life and plans with my friends-but-not-best-friends has not recovered. Neighborhood events never recovered. Attendance at school events is still way down. I feel like my kids (teens) social circles has shrunk too. None of this feels for the better.

Also, the MS and HS teachers are still teaching like it’s virtual school. All on Chromebooks. No lessons and hands on teaching anymore.

Not my experience on one single one of these. Not invalidating. Just interesting. Wonder if it’s more regional. Are you in one of the very extreme blue bubbles?

[Anonymous]

My kid turned into a hermit. Anxiety about getting COVID was high. This pandemic affected their learning and social development.

We had to play catch up getting them prepared to move away to college. Even then, there were gaps. They’d never used a debit card for instance. They rarely went out and, when they did, used our credit card.

The learned to drive “late.” Once they did, that helped to accelerate their growth.

They caught COVID finally and felt pretty sick. In a sense, it was probably good to finally catch it and get that over with.

Zoom and telehealth have saved me hours.

We missed saying goodbye to a dying parent due to hospital COVID protocols. Still hard to believe that.



Long COVID is a disease of inflammation, a doctor told me. I hope you feel better every day, OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid turned into a hermit. Anxiety about getting COVID was high. This pandemic affected their learning and social development.

We had to play catch up getting them prepared to move away to college. Even then, there were gaps. They’d never used a debit card for instance. They rarely went out and, when they did, used our credit card.

The learned to drive “late.” Once they did, that helped to accelerate their growth.

They caught COVID finally and felt pretty sick. In a sense, it was probably good to finally catch it and get that over with.

Zoom and telehealth have saved me hours.

We missed saying goodbye to a dying parent due to hospital COVID protocols. Still hard to believe that.



Long COVID is a disease of inflammation, a doctor told me. I hope you feel better every day, OP.

How do teens end up with anxiety about covid? I truly don’t understand that