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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of stuff just never restarted because of laziness. At my kids' ES alone, many field trips are not back yet, many of the assemblies/all-school gatherings are still not back, several grade-level musical performances are not back, field day and holiday celebrations are shadows of their former selves. None of this is due to fear of Covid. Its just shear laziness. Nobody can be bothered and its sad.

Same is true with neighborhood potlucks, wine clubs, poker clubs, book clubs, etc. Many aren't happening any more and the ones that are have a fraction of their former attendance. Again, not fear of Covid, just laziness and people's preference to just sit at home in their sweat pants. I'm not sure we will ever fully recover from that. [/quote]

I have noticed the same and I agree. It seems like a fair number of people just don’t want to do anything anymore. It took the public libraries until literally LAST MONTH (September of 2023!) to get back to normal hours. I still don’t see as many preschool/little kid events there as I used to. There used to be a book club in my neighborhood, it stopped during Covid and never returned. The HOA used to put on a Christmas/holiday party - nothing big, just an indoor/outdoor thing at the clubhouse and in the parking lot, during the day for the kids to enjoy. Cancelled in 2020 and never returned.

It’s like we spent so long cooped up that we eventually came to prefer it + people are so burnt out after working and taking care of kids at the same time since schools and sometimes even day cares were closed, that no one has the energy to organize anything anymore. [/quote]

Yes to all of this. I think this is one reason why it can really vary by person as to whether they feel everything has shifted post-Covid. I think some communities/schools have recovered and gone back to normal, but not all. Mine definitely isn't. I am one of the people who used to plan and participate more pre-Covid and I struggle so much more now. I'm so tired and my mental health isn't as good as it used to be, so I've just dropped the ball on more things because I don't have the energy or mental bandwidth. I think many others are the same. I don't blame anyone. I think Covid hit some communities a lot harder in terms of what we went through, and that has impacted it. The communities where everything is "back to normal" I think probably were less scathed in terms of not just death and illness, but also probably didn't deal with as much of the stress of being in frontline jobs, having kids home for extended periods, maybe had fewer dual income families where both parents had to work, etc. We have friends who have SAHPs, were able to spend much of Covid at second houses, or have kids in privates that reopened quickly, etc., and they are, I think, more over Covid and don't feel the same aftereffects.

Also some communities (including ours) were more impacted by a lot of the conversation around police violence, racism, etc. Those conversations needed to happen but haven't always been handled well or made things better (there is a level of "open wound" that we can't seem to heal) and it all adds to more stress. More homogeneous or privileged communities might not deal with as much of that.[/quote]

Yeah the George Floyd stuff happening at the same time as Covid was so rough. I had a social group implode because of it. not because of difficulties/disagreements between people in the group, but because the group’s parent org didn’t handle the overall situation in the best way and people knee-jerk reacted by disbanding their own chapters of the larger group. We used to raise money for charitable orgs in the area and do donation drives - not anymore since the group disbanded. [/quote]

That was the beginning of the end. Social gatherings were wrong and deadly, unless it was a BLM march. How stupid did they think everyone was? [b]Life went back to normal after that[/b].[/quote]

No, it didn't.  
School didn't fully open in person for another year after that.
Masks were still mandatory everywhere for almost a full year after that.
Large events, like college/pro sports, plays, concerts, movie theaters, etc. didn't start happening for quite a while after that.[/quote]

Speak for yourself. My kids were back in school in Sept 2020. In person. Like many places in the US. We moved from a stifling bubble that stay closed well into 2021, which was insane, but we made the right decision. Everywhere isn't like your corner of the woods. Large events were also ongoing. Remember Super Bowl 2021? Some of you have amnesia about how much was actually going on around you.[/quote]

Around here it did not go back in September 2020 for public schools.   
Superbowl 2021 was at more than SEVEN MONTHS after George Floyd was killed.   You have trouble understanding a basic calendar. [/quote]

Hmmm the World Series happened in 2020, college football went on in 2020... a lot happened. Just because your school district and neighborhood locked down hard doesn't mean everywhere did. But, you stayed inside afraid to go out so you have no idea what was happening everywhere else. There is no collective, nationwide trauma over this, which is why you're struggling to find acknowledgment.[/quote]

I think the overall point is that a lot of us were ready to be more relaxed about Covid by September 2020 and certainly by early spring 2021, but restrictions were still being forced on us even at that point. I’m glad you could move away from all the craziness but some of us couldn’t.

Also agree with others that it really did start when Trump got elected. I’m no fan of his and I didn’t vote for him and absolutely would not in the future. BUT, you can’t deny that some reactions - both from policymakers and individuals - were knee jerk against Trump. When he came out in summer 2020 and said schools should be open for the fall, I knew right then and there it wasn’t happening in liberal areas. [/quote]

I feel bad for the people living under the draconian and senseless rules that dragged on for far too long, and yes, seemed very political more than sensible. But I don't feel sorry for the people complaining about their trauma, who insisted on living that way, and don't want to talk about the mistakes that were made, but demand empathy and understanding for their (self inflicted) troubles. There will never be a reckoning, but that also means the sympathy well has dried up.[/quote]

The resistance was entirely political . The [b]guidance was based upon the best science available to public health professionals at the time[/b].

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This is not true - public health professional[/quote]

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