Anonymous
Post 07/22/2021 05:27     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Gave me gray hair and cavities. But I quit drinking.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2021 02:28     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Anonymous wrote:I’m a nanny and I realize how little my bosses cares about me, just as a human being. I’ve been with the family for 9 years and it’s soul crushing when I think how I’ve given almost a decade of my heart and soul to this family, and the parents didn’t care about exposing me to dangerous situations. I arrived at work after a week off for Xmas, to find out everyone had covid. I found out when the kids told me and I was already exposed. I was sick for a month and my boss didn’t pay me beyond my 5 sick days.

Im looking for a new job in September.


I'm a nanny as well and heck no. I would've been outta there. In this time, nannies have been in high demand so unless they put a gun to your head, not sure why you actually stayed. Good luck.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2021 01:57     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Anonymous wrote:I’m a nanny and I realize how little my bosses cares about me, just as a human being. I’ve been with the family for 9 years and it’s soul crushing when I think how I’ve given almost a decade of my heart and soul to this family, and the parents didn’t care about exposing me to dangerous situations. I arrived at work after a week off for Xmas, to find out everyone had covid. I found out when the kids told me and I was already exposed. I was sick for a month and my boss didn’t pay me beyond my 5 sick days.

Im looking for a new job in September.




Sue them. WTF! They knowingly exposed you to COVID and INFECTED YOU. They didn't even have the decency to pay you during your sick days. Fu#k them!


THAT SAID, grow up and stop saying/thinking/behaving inane things like the bolded above. Your nannying job is just that - a job. You take care of kids from 9 to 5 (or whatever) and they pay you. That is it. That is the extent of your relationship to them.

Probably because you are sentimental about the job you will probably dismiss my advice to sue them.



Anonymous
Post 07/22/2021 01:40     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
I’m a nanny and I realize how little my bosses cares about me, just as a human being. I’ve been with the family for 9 years and it’s soul crushing when I think how I’ve given almost a decade of my heart and soul to this family, and the parents didn’t care about exposing me to dangerous situations. I arrived at work after a week off for Xmas, to find out everyone had covid. I found out when the kids told me and I was already exposed. I was sick for a month and my boss didn’t pay me beyond my 5 sick days.

Im looking for a new job in September.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2021 01:38     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Anonymous wrote:My husband died. And part of me died with him. Now I’m a sad person.


I could have written this. Life is not the same....and the isolation has been soul crushing.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2021 01:25     Subject: Re:What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
1 - made me fatter

2 - made me aware of how inadequate FCPS curriculum and the way they deal with learning disabilities SUCKS.

3 - made me realize how much I wish I had the $$ means to put my kids in a GREAT private

4 - made me identify less with left-wing politicians

5 - made me despise the woke crowd and SJW

6 - made me become less tolerant

7 - made me change my mind about to which organization I “would donate the bulk of my $$ if I ever win the lottery”

It is actually scary how much I changed philosophically.
Anonymous
Post 07/22/2021 01:01     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Anonymous wrote:
I’m sorry, but our country made its priorities very clear over the past 15 months and it’s apparent that children, particularly those with special needs/mental health issues/too young to benefit from virtual learning were absolute bottom of the barrel. Working moms a close second.

It’s not like the rest of the country was also hunkering at home along with the parents of young kids. I saw so many of my child free friends taking advantage of cheap flights, going out to restaurants, etc. while my 5 year old sat at home on an iPad trying to learn how to read and I tried to cling to my job. So sorry, but I think parents of young kids have a right to feel like we’ve been abandoned by society. We sacrificed the well-being of the young to by and large save the elderly (many of which I saw living their lives out and about on social media as if there wasn’t even a pandemic!).


I just wanted to pull this part out because it is 100% true. Pretty much sums it up.


When I see famous people bragging "it's over, we made it" and going out maskless all over the place because THEY got vaccinated, while my child cannot and has school in a few weeks, it really kind of makes me angry. It's not over. School is around the corner, and we should be looking ahead to what that means if maskless, vaccinated people are out licking their fingers at parties and resorts and spreading covid asymptomatically and not giving a F. The whole "selfish" meme thing from 2020 is out the window.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2021 23:23     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Anonymous wrote:Lost my job (airline pilot) and my home. Had a suicide attempt from the forced isolation and will never work again as a pilot. My marriage is hanging on by a thread and I will likely lose that, too.


I'm so sorry OP. I pray some supportive, helpful people lift you up, and that some miracles happen for you. When things look real bad, that usually means a blessing is coming.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2021 22:41     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
I know I’m an outlier but I got so much out of the past 18 mos. extra time with my teens that i never would have had and a closeness that didn’t exist there before. I had the space, time and freedom to explore and discover new passions and talents. I worked out regularly. I slept consistently well since we didn’t have the bus at 6:30. I learned to meditate and I learned that while I love my friends and getting together with people, I am also perfectly content and fulfilled by my own company. Yes I am desperately sad about the death and the turmoil and suffering and yes I missed my family but on a personal level it was a net gain.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2021 22:14     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Wow, some of the comments here are really really mean. I'm not a sah mom but I have no doubt it hasn't been easy isolating at home, whether a family makes $20k/$200k/$2million a year. It must be really damn depressing for many and I'm honestly glad I didn't have to be in that position.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2021 20:18     Subject: Re:What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Anonymous wrote:Wow, this thread has gone in a sad direction.

For what it's worth, we are a middle class family for whom the burden of losing childcare/school was a genuine hardship. I don't care if you think it was easy or not, I know what happened. We do not have the finances to simply replace in-person school with paid childcare. We used some savings to pay for some childcare just to make it possible to get by. We both work. Our children are young (3 and 5). We were fortunate that one of us could always work from home, though we both had to work in person at times.

But this year was brutal and I have only just started to recovery. Even now, we are dealing with insane schedules just to get by. We were able to buy about a month of summer camp with our kids (normally we'd be able to afford more, but we paid for part-time care throughout the year and are just tapped out at this point). The weeks we don't have camp, I usually work until 1am and then my husband watches the kids until 9am so that I can sleep in, and then I take over until he gets home from work, and then he handles dinner/bedtime while I pull another night shift. This is one of those weeks. I'm so tired. I keep telling myself that September is the finish line. We will limp across it.

It is unreal how many people blow off what families like ours have been through, simply because we didn't die. Oh, and if you are wondering, we have lost 3 family members in the last year, including one to Covid, plus are supporting another who is so deep in grief she cannot care for herself.

Lots of ordinary families who aren't necessarily first responders or essential workers took it on the chin all year. Lots of us are hurting. The lack of empathy in this thread for us is par for the course, but still hurts.


So you DID have the resources. You had savings, which you used. You didn't want to use it and didn't like using it, but you did, and your children were cared for, and you worked.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2021 18:50     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
I am a nurse, working in a big area hospital.
It made realize how utterly ignorant and selfish people, including those with education and/or those in healthcare, can be...
It made grateful for the things I have, for my health, my family.
It made me scared how easily things can fall apart, how a lot of people seem to have very few coping skills.
It made me jaded about how the CDC and hospital admin were willing to throw health care staff under the bus in the beginning with lack of PPE/guidance about appropriate PPE. Also F the Joint Commission, who will be picky about random things but didn't speak up in the middle of the pandemic.
Anonymous
Post 07/21/2021 18:32     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
I'm am independent contractor who works with clients outside of the home. Right in the first couple days of WHO announcing a Pandemic, I had so many cancelations. In the first 4-5 months, I lost 50%+ of my income, applied for unemployment last May and was denied, even though I paid taxes and everything was fine. It was such a scary time for me financially and mentally. I felt like such a failure. Business has picked up but still not back to pre-Pandemic times. I never want to feel that feeling of utter hopelessness that I felt in those first few months.


MaryamFamily
Post 07/21/2021 17:59     Subject: Re:What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
My understanding of what family means has changed. I lost my beloved grandmother to Covid, which breaks my heart to this day. But others I am blood-related to, even my own parents, don't feel like family anymore (ones who put politics over basic care for our family). And others who care more, who are kind of "adopted" into my family, feel more like family.

I also treasure my husband and children so much more. My husband has pulled more than his share of the weight since the pandemic started. I am grateful to heaven for him. I could not have done this with him. I feel for those who are struggling with raising children without a steady partner. I am reminded every day how lucky I am to have a husband & father of my children who's caring and does more than his share for the family.

I also look more kindly upon a lot of strangers. I guess a lot of this for me has been tied to political/societal issues too- not just Covid. When I see essential workers like grocery store staff, I look with such compassion whereas before I may have been too easily judgmental or impatient. Now I really try to take my time to let people know I appreciate them. God knows I am grateful I don't have to be on my feet for 10+ hours a day making minimum wage; I'm one of the lucky ones who works from home while caring for a toddler.

To sum up, I have a strange mix of being tired/fed up with some people I used to be close to, and am more compassionate/understanding of so many others.
Anonymous
Post 07/11/2021 21:09     Subject: What did COVID-19 pandemic do to you?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:It’s left me utterly confused. The politics… the masking… the vaccine… the public school parents… everyone seems completely intolerant of different points of view now.



Yes. I truly cannot relate to a lot of people. Not looking to debate here just saying I personally cannot relate to people who supported the school closures in dmv, who continue to outdoor mask on hikes etc. I look at them and see nothing in common. It’s unsettling to feel like our society has splintered into maybe 3-4 very distinct camps.

Yeah, this is me. I can’t relate to the crazy lockdown people in DC, or my relatives in the South who don’t believe that covid is real.

I’m feeling pretty alienated from American society in general.