The actual reason for most was from people embarrassed to wear facemasks at the grocery store. Otherwise, most people didn’t go out and socialize very often anyway, most people LOVED having an excuse to cancel the big, annoying jumping-castle birthday party.
The right capitalized on this petty whinging and made people feel validated for hating to change their habits in the most minor way and played it up to catastrophic levels to secure a rightward swing in the US.
And it worked fantastically well. This is the generation of apathy and laziness and self-entitlement and the left is equally guilty of succumbing to this long before the pandemic even.
Everyone is stuck up in their own asses because we have a million different comforts that we cling to and will scream and bargain to not have to make changes.
The number of people who took their masks off indoors and put them on outside made my goddamn BRAIN melt, and led to one of my larger despair-induced mental health breakdowns.
I knew it was bad, I knew a lot of people were kind of ignorant… but I had no idea it was THAT bad, I even got alienated from some family groups because I tried to explain germ theory and they said I sounded too hyped up on politics or something to that effect.
Yeah I work for a flooring distributor. My company labeled us essential so I too work through the whole thing. So did my wife as a dog bather. Guess Petsmart figured they were essential too.
Suddenly had a shitload of free time and still getting paid, so I went to the beach for a swim and went on bike rides or walks all the time. I think most people did.
My job at the time just requested that we work from home whenever possible, so I didn’t gain much extra free time (aside from transit time saved, which I won’t complain about 🙂)
All I heard was people bitching about it and going outside with any excuse they had.
I hear people bitching about not being allowed to go outside, even though where I live you were always to go outside
The actual reason for most was from people embarrassed to wear facemasks at the grocery store. Otherwise, most people didn’t go out and socialize very often anyway, most people LOVED having an excuse to cancel the big, annoying jumping-castle birthday party.
The right capitalized on this petty whinging and made people feel validated for hating to change their habits in the most minor way and played it up to catastrophic levels to secure a rightward swing in the US.
And it worked fantastically well. This is the generation of apathy and laziness and self-entitlement and the left is equally guilty of succumbing to this long before the pandemic even.
Everyone is stuck up in their own asses because we have a million different comforts that we cling to and will scream and bargain to not have to make changes.
Here people thought they can’t go out to parks or nature even though that was never forbidden. I think American cultural wars played into that
The number of people who took their masks off indoors and put them on outside made my goddamn BRAIN melt, and led to one of my larger despair-induced mental health breakdowns.
I knew it was bad, I knew a lot of people were kind of ignorant… but I had no idea it was THAT bad, I even got alienated from some family groups because I tried to explain germ theory and they said I sounded too hyped up on politics or something to that effect.
I just worked through the entire thing. Woooo! /s
I’m essential! [Chuckles] I’m in danger!
Yeah I work for a flooring distributor. My company labeled us essential so I too work through the whole thing. So did my wife as a dog bather. Guess Petsmart figured they were essential too.
Yeah, we got labeled essential by general Mills even though we hadn’t sold them any equipment in 4 years.
Yeah anything to keep us from getting that sweet time off.
Essentially fucked. Amirite?
Me too. That’s why I am still salty about it. Just stay home and it can be fixed sooner.
The trick with being a shut-in is that its only really practical when other people still have to go out and do things on your behalf.
As soon as you can’t get DoorDash or you A/C fails or the office fires you for clinging to “Work From Home” too long, shit gets real really quickly.
I went out more during covid than I did before it
Why?
Suddenly had a shitload of free time and still getting paid, so I went to the beach for a swim and went on bike rides or walks all the time. I think most people did.
Ah, that sounds really nice.
My job at the time just requested that we work from home whenever possible, so I didn’t gain much extra free time (aside from transit time saved, which I won’t complain about 🙂)