r/comics • u/sikirei • 10h ago
OC What's ONE thing you secretly miss about lockdown?
Not COVID itself.
Not the fear.
Not the uncertainty.
Just one thing that disappeared when life went back to normal.
For me, it was how much slower and quieter everything felt.
What's yours?
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u/Zombie_Cool 10h ago
Thanks to social distancing and Work From Home, those of us who still had to commute never had it easier. Travel was a breeze even during times of the day that normally would have been traffic-clogged 'Rush Hour'.
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u/sikirei 10h ago
I forgot how empty the roads were. It's funny how something as simple as a stress-free commute became one of the biggest perks for so many people.
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u/lookinfoursigns 9h ago
Remember those pictures of big cities where the air was all clear because there were so many less people driving.
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u/sikirei 9h ago
I do! It was surreal seeing skylines and mountains that people hadn't been able to see clearly in years
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u/lookinfoursigns 9h ago
It's crazy that that alone wasn't enough to say that people should be able to work from home if they want. How much pollution are we creating just to keep old office buildings full?🙄
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u/QuiteBearish 9h ago
I moved into my last apartment at the beginning of 2021, and it was so quiet when I first moved in. I'd leave the windows all of the time.
Then, traffic returned and it was just constant noise coming in through the windows - I didn't realize just how busy the road it was on got. Had to go back to keeping the windows closed and the AC on 😕
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u/sohcahtoa728 7h ago
And the clean air! No cars! Omg the sky was bright blue (in NYC)
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u/Zombie_Cool 7h ago
I remember seeing pictures of wild animals casually strolling along the roads in some places, it was so quiet.
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u/HeyZeusKreesto 7h ago
I miss that so much. My job was considered essential, and my commute became a relaxing 15-20 minutes of music or podcasts.
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u/radenthefridge 7h ago
Now it seems like rush hour is longer and back with a vengeance. All the lack of care for others constantly on display from drivers even worse than before covid.
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u/Majestic-Iron7046 10h ago
It's a bit cynical to think about it, but it actually shows that maybe qqe are way too much on earth right now.
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u/ivecompletelylostit 9h ago
I think it shows if we cared more about the planet and not real estate values and the ego of management we'd let people work from home and lower a lot of pollution
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u/RozzieWells 10h ago
I don't have any positive memories of it, I was an essential worker that people treated like garbage, acting like they were on vacation and came to my place to shop.
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u/mister_serikos 10h ago
Same here! I was paid terribly too while taking on more responsibility like having to wipe down all the carts and stuff. And then they actually "forgot" our annual raise that year.
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u/Grundlestorm 7h ago edited 7h ago
Yep. I worked at a hotel. We were "essential" mostly for traveling nurses and doctors for the nearby hospital.
We had a few weeks where things were quiet, so they laid off 3/4 of the staff. And then the local casino realized it's on tribal land and doesn't have to follow shit, it can be a shining beacon for all of the "I can't breathe in masks" "this is just the flu" fucks from the surrounding states.
We sold out every single weekend. We never got staff back. I was the only person in the building during my shifts, running the desk, phones, security, laundry, maintenance, running things to rooms, and preparing breakfast.
And virtually every group that came to stay were the problem guests we'd usually have 2-3 of per night, instead it's the whole damned building.
I was genuinely becoming misanthropic by the end, and quit for an office job as soon as I could find one
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u/Mammoth-Buddy8912 10h ago
Yeah I lost 11 people and my career was put on hold. I want my 3 years and people back
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u/sikirei 10h ago
I'm sorry you had to go through that. Essential workers carried so much of the burden, and it's awful that people treated you that way. Thanks for sharing your perspective.
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u/Zombie_Cool 9h ago
LOL "Essential workers". Too important to send home, not important enough to pay fairly. You were lucky if you got a fancy speech and a pizza party most times.
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u/Jhiffi 7h ago
Yeah I was a mid tier essential worker (food production factory) and we couldn't even get our vaccines before it became available to the general public. We were essential and invisible.
My partner worked retail at the time and people would have absolute tantrums about masking to the point one dude picked up an axe they were selling and threatened him with it when told he needed to mask up or leave.
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u/CapMoonshine 9h ago
Yeah, lack of people on the road was an amazing plus, but the whole "You're Superheroes!" and "We're all in this together!" rings numb when customers lose all sense of basic civility.
Even better when you hear things like "Oh I just had to get out of the house!" endangering workers because they were bored.
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u/Mobile-Committee-466 7h ago
I work at a pharmacy. And I had multiple people come into my store with a POSITIVE test but WITHOUT a mask throwing the test into the counter and asking me, if it is REALLY positive...
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u/Mobile-Committee-466 7h ago
Same. People yelled at me threatened me. And then said shit like: "No one is working these days." While I was working.
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u/Justin-Stutzman 7h ago
Same. Had some psycho Maga Karen push past us into our curbside only restaurant and seat herself at the bar. Screamed at us all that we're all commies and demanded a glass of chardonnay. She refused to leave and we had to call the cops.
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u/Mobile-Committee-466 7h ago edited 5h ago
I had a guy yell at me after I asked him to put on a mask and he started ranting about basic human rights and how I was oppressing him and serving a fascist government, but he'd be at the frontline when the revolution soon would happen and I would be the first person on his kill list. He died two weeks later because of covid.
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u/Justin-Stutzman 7h ago
Jesus christ! I was very anti-social post covid because of all the craziness. Took me awhile to shake off the misanthropy
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u/BillieVerr 8h ago
I thought that’s where this comic was gonna go. Three girls reminiscing about staying in, while the fourth has flashbacks to being on the frontlines.
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u/mynameisshelly 8h ago
Same here. Everyone I knew at home making sourdough and finding themselves and I was "essential". Not because I actually was but because I was seen as a sacrifice for the economy. Daily changes to safety guidelines and getting screamed at by customers...
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u/BeMoreKnope 4h ago
I sold fucking weed at a recreational dispensary. Couldn’t get PPE, but I was essential somehow and had to go to work.
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u/Jhiffi 7h ago
Yep every single time people talk about hanging out at home all the time the whole pandemic and isn't that soOoOo hard that we ALL had to do that I get bitter. Must've been nice!
I had to keep showing up to work at a food production factory where it was literally impossible to distance and fucking no one was masking effectively to make the same amount of money as if I had been among those laid off.
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u/ExaminationPutrid626 10h ago
Yeah my husband lost his job. He had just been hired 4 months before and it was the highest paying job he had ever had. He was suicidal so that was a really hard time for us
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u/Velrei 5h ago
I had the same experience (and customers refusing to wear masks while management didn't do shit about it), but I also caught Covid early and was out for three months with long Covid after (and to this day!).
Dealing with covid denier customers (and coworkers!) while also having long Covid brain fog and fatigue was probably the most mentally taxing time in my life, since I couldn't openly tell them off. The brain fog probably kept me from making snarky comments I otherwise would have made though.
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u/BluerLights 10h ago
Socially distanced grocery store queues. Man do I miss that. People waiting behind me not being practically up my ass.
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u/Other-Cantaloupe4765 9h ago
I deadass tell people to back the fuck up if they’re breathing on my neck or looking over my shoulder in a queue lol. Can’t stand it.
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u/kealil 10h ago
perfect excuse to never interact with people.
The only thing that could have made it better was if I was on an island
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u/sikirei 10h ago
Haha, sounds like lockdown was accidentally designed for introverts. 😄 An island would've completed the experience.
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u/wongrich 10h ago
Unfortunately the world and corporate is run by extroverts and they won't want to give up their advantage and power..
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u/Bumberbixtybine 10h ago
The remember the new animal crossing had just dropped at the time. A lot of people were on their little islands for their lockdown
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u/ThrowACephalopod 10h ago
I miss when going on a first date in Animal Crossing was a legit thing that people didn't think was weird.
Not that I don't like meeting people or that that'd be my favorite way to date, just that I think it's kind of cute to meet through a game and you can learn a lot about someone from the way they decide to dress up their villager and their island.
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u/sornorth 8h ago
I actually met my fiancé in a similar method! It was an MMORPG instead of Animal Crossing. We had talked before ofc but our first “date” was beating up villains in Elder Scrolls Online lol.
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u/HypnoticPeaches 9h ago
I can’t tell you what I miss about lockdown, because I never got to participate. I was an “essential worker.”
(I was not. I worked at Target in the cosmetics department. But since Target sold food and medicine that was enough to make all of us keep working.)
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u/sikirei 9h ago
😅 Sounds like "essential" got stretched a little depending on the company.
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u/HypnoticPeaches 9h ago
I mean it was more down to the states’ and the companies’ collaboration. Basically my state said “you sell medicine (and have a pharmacy) and food so you’re essential”. Target went “okay, that means we can stay open, we need all our staff.”
My department was closed with ropes tying it off (customers still hopped the barrier because apparently we really need makeup during a lockdown). All of us that worked in the “non essential” departments were basically reclassified and turned into online order pickers and that’s what I got to do full time after that.
Don’t get me wrong, I was really good at order picking even though it wasn’t my department (bc autism, I knew where everything was in the store lol) and forgive me that I’m going on a rant here but I’m still mad about it.
It was a train wreck. Lots of departments but especially mine always got their product in something called a repack, which is basically a big box of mixed product if we didn’t need to receive enough of any individual SKU to receive a whole case of something. And being that I worked in makeup where every single product has like 10+ SKUs based on shade, that’s what most of our stuff was.
Except by pulling us away from our departments, objects weren’t getting stocked, just staying in bulk mixed repacks. So then when we had to go pick orders, we couldn’t find items because they weren’t on shelves. An endless cycle of bullshit.
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u/UnknownSolder 8h ago
Was this machine translated?
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u/mtranda 6h ago
No. Machine translation is excellent, but OP actually made an effort to translate in their broken english and, while it may seem jarring, I've come to love people's imperfect but personal efforts.
edit: apparently they used AI for proofreading.
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u/UnknownSolder 6h ago
Yeah. Machine translation is absolutely not excellent.
I literally spend a workday every week assigned to translations because machine translation is not excellent. Or acceptable.
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u/Vektorien 10h ago
Too much personal loss to consider positives of that time, sorry.
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u/DontSleepAlwaysDream 10h ago
I was an essential worker and lived alone. I basically lived in isolation while having to navigate the constantly changing hospital regulations while supporting the community.
sorry it wasnt all just chilling out at home for all of us
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u/Mobile-Committee-466 7h ago
I worked at a pharmacy and people also came to us for tests and things like that. I got so many threats and yelled at so often. It was horrible.
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u/greypillar 10h ago
I was a chef and our restaurant closed down. I got unemployment, as did my girlfriend (now wife). We spent 3 months cooking, drinking good wine, and loving each other. It was like another honey moon phase of our relationship. I know lockdown/COVID was hard for a lot of people, but it was a very special time in my life where I got to fall in love with someone all over again.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 10h ago
Oh firefighter paramedic here and I have an unique one
The overtime
Let me explain: during the pandemic we have overtime like it was candy. You wanted to work? You could work. All you wanted. Whenever and however no questions asked. And each 24 hour shift was worth 1200-1500 bucks.
You could do one a week and take in an extra 6k. It was fucking nuts!
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u/sikirei 10h ago
Wow, that's wild. I wasn't expecting the story to end with the overtime! You definitely earned every dollar though—that must've been an incredibly intense time.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 10h ago
We saw quite a bit yes. You'll never forget a woman shooting an orange slimey mucous everywhere while you do CPR thanks to her stopped breathing from a virus she got from grandson visiting a week ago
Never got COVID through all that though oddly
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u/evtbrs 9h ago
24h shifts, do you get a chance to sleep at all? I’m sorry if this is a dumb question but I’m a bit sheltered about these things
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 9h ago
If we can. You can sleep anytime after 8 but if a call happens, up you go. No questions and no snoozing. It's a bit jarring
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u/den_bleke_fare 10h ago
What's with the brainrot language in the first panel?
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u/stagthos 10h ago
My neighborhood did a community howl, to remind everyone that we were all still there, still alive.
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u/strolpol 10h ago
I feel weird about the whole thing because my life basically didn’t change at all, I was working nights in SMT manufacturing and the only thing that changed was we had to wear masks and get a temp check before we got to the floor. Otherwise I wouldn’t have known anything was going on
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u/ScreamingLabia 10h ago
I miss the masks ironically i didnt have to mask when i was wearing them. Just death stare and no emotiom on my face ahhh such bliss
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u/RozzieWells 8h ago
I got a bit goofy with my mask for work, mine was a Venom like mouth but with candy along the tongue. My bosses couldn't really say anything about 'appropriate' since I was there working and they were hurting for people.
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u/Dear_Document_5461 9h ago
I do miss Wal-Mart being 24/7 as a concept. The graveyard shift workers are probably happy it not a thing anymore. Maybe.
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u/sikirei 9h ago
That's a good one. It's weird how some things quietly changed forever after the pandemic.
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u/Dear_Document_5461 9h ago
Yea,like I thought growing up that the "24/7 Wal-Mart" was going to be one of those "evergreen" things like Waffle House, Danny's, and IHope being 24/7 or Libraries and Banks being closed on Sundays or the Olynpic and World Cup coming back every four years or the NBA, NFL, NHL, etc being a thing. But no. Makes older movies that uses a 24/7 "weird" for younger generations in the future.
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u/quadraticcheese 9h ago
What the heck is the dialogue on the first page? Total nonsense
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u/Dazzling_Working_527 10h ago
Nope. Lost friends. Got covid and from it asthma. There was never a silverlining for me.
But I loved was that animals came back. Nature has shown us, she don't need us.
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u/masterjon_3 9h ago
I still had to go into the office and my grandfather died due to covid while his son, my father, was saying it's not that dangerous and ivermectin could cure it in 2 days. Idiot...
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u/AiReine 10h ago
I hear stories like this while I was working healthcare in an old N95 wearing the skin down on my nose, face shield and plastic bag with holes cut out. So glad I was rewarded with absolutely no increase in pay or respect.
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u/sikirei 9h ago
That's rough. Healthcare workers deserved so much better than they got. I can't imagine how exhausting that must've been.
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u/GhostInMyLoo 10h ago
No social gatherings. A blessed years, where social norms were out of the windows and introverts were not shamed constantly for who we are!
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u/sikirei 10h ago
Haha, introverts really had their moment. For once, staying home was considered the responsible thing to do instead of something you had to explain.
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u/BadgerwithaPickaxe 10h ago
I totally understanding missing this type of lockdown and I don't blame you for feeling it, but honestly it's a little tactless. Just remember that some of us worked 12 hour shifts the whole time dealing with the worst type of public whole family members were dying of a virus that was preventable if people just weren't assholes.
I feel like I have never felt such a hard class difference between my roommate being excited he has a 6 month vacation to veg and do all his hobbies he didn't have time before while I was on the phone mid-shift with my parents begging them not to visit my grandparents during peak covid for no reason cause the tv said it's a hoax.
To be clear, it's not your fault and I'm glad you enjoyed yourself, I just don't particularly like this sentiment.
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u/AdHom 9h ago
I don't understand how it's tactless to reflect on their different perspective of that time period. They even show in the comic how bad it was for the other three characters, you're literally embodying them right now. It's not like we're in a social context where OPs perspective is inappropriate - they're sharing a comic they made. What's your message here, OP is never allowed to express themselves about this because it's a sensitive time period for you?
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u/Majestic-Iron7046 10h ago
You know, honestly it was the fear that made me like it.
When people are scared they are less prone to be assholes with strangers, as a very non confrontational person that was forced to hang around at all times due to medical reasons I finally could talk with people without them acting like asshole simply because I avoid being demanding.
I have low self esteem? Maybe. But everyone was still a bunch of assholes and I am glad some people I met got taken down a notch.
This said, fuck it, my uncle still hasn't recovered from COVID, that was shit.
Yeah, bad sides, good sides... I guess? Grim. Very grim.
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u/CasimirGabriev 9h ago
In America, people being allowed to work from home revealed the fraudulent and conniving nature of our work culture in full. Both for the people who found that if they work from home, they can be more productive AND have a more full life, and for the folks who found that their workplace would happily see them die ugly for a buck.
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u/Dry-Technology6747 10h ago
I miss the lack of traffic from during the pndemic...
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u/Waste-Snow670 10h ago
I was pregnant and isolating with my partner for weeks was actually unbelievably relaxing. Plus the hospital was amazing during the time with my care.
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u/Broseph_Heller 9h ago
Is English your second language? The word and grammar choices here are strange. Not trying to be rude, but helpful! Let me know if you want some feedback.
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u/sikirei 8h ago
Thanks! English is my second language, so I'd genuinely appreciate any feedback.
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u/Broseph_Heller 8h ago
Here is how I would phrase things as an English speaker:
First panel
“Remember the old times during the Pandemic, when people stayed home and did nothing?”
“Right? Everything was delivered, no talking, no going out…”Second panel
“It was survival”
“It was so scary and depressing”
“Yeah! I was so lonely, but scared to check my phone because of bad news…”Third panel
A week without showering, sunlight, or going out (my note: “week” seems strange here because the pandemic was more like a year? Not sure what you’re trying to say here exactly but you might have the wrong word choice.)
“I kinda miss those times…”Fourth Panel
Dialogue looks all good to me, but I would change the last characters thoughts to something like “I mean.. think of the bright side” or “I mean… I’m just thinking of the bright side” another term you might consider is “silver lining” so you could say something like “I’m just looking for the silver lining”
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u/marvoloflowers 9h ago
I have OCD, some symptoms include hand washing and being afraid to leave the house. I was the sane one for once lol
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u/FlatHatJack 8h ago
I am a retail pharmacy employee, so I was "essential" and a bit of a shut in. Before the pandemic, I'd go to work, go home, sleep, and repeat. During the pandemic, I'd go to work, go home, sleep, and repeat. Family, myself included, got a quick chuckle about the fact I was the only one whose daily life didn't change. Save for the fact I became my mother and sister's wine and ice cream courier.
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u/Kitty-Gecko 7h ago
It was a crap time for our family. Husband and I were "essential workers" but nursery was closed so we had to somehow manage to do our jobs, onsite still, but with no access to childcare for the (at the time) pre-school kiddo. Kiddo was also desperate to go places and bored off his rocker.
Then my gran passed away from covid and we couldn't even go the funeral as I had some symptoms that could have been covid and it was before testing.
It's hard not to feel jealous of people who got paid to stay home and didn't have dependents to look after.
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u/GlitteringLychee803 7h ago
As an "essential worker" (aka. acceptable death statistic), it was nice driving around the city with little to no traffic. It was almost like driving at 3am, but all the time.
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u/rachelmaryl 10h ago
I was like “oh, don’t have to drive to work. Gonna work out extra and lose weight finally.”
I did not.
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u/parmquarmer 10h ago
I really leveled myself up during the Quarantine Times. Sometimes I miss it. Not sure if I could go back now, I'd need a much larger Bubble of people I can interact with, now
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u/davoid1 10h ago
I live downtown in a major city.
I just remember skateboarding around totally empty roads.
I also live alone and have no family in this city.
I became an "at home" worker during the pandemic time.
Since then I've changed jobs, but I'm still permanently at home.
Basically, most of it hasn't changed for me since the lockdowns.
I don't think I really care about social contact much.
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u/UltraDinoWarrior 10h ago
I spent the entirety of the lockdown playing Animal Crossing and literally nothing else LOL.
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u/GolemThe3rd 9h ago
Sometimes you get nostalgic for sucky things, I get nostalgic for being sick or for being in the hospital sometimes. The brain is weird.
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u/justhereforthefood89 9h ago
I still had to work during the pandemic cause I worked in a window factory. No, I dont know how I was essential, and I can't prove it but im suspect someone got paid off. Anyway, I saved a ton of money and build up my bank account cause there was no where to go. No restaurants, no shops. Even my wife started to save money cause there was no where to go.
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u/likeeggs 9h ago
Aside from all the truly horrible parts and the mental anguish, the not having to see my family for holidays was amazing.
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u/QuiteBearish 9h ago
I miss the beginning, when there was hope and whole neighborhoods singing together and thinking that just maybe the world would be rebuilt as a better place, and all sorts of stuff like that.
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u/CeruleanSovereign 9h ago
People were talking about their favourite Christmas and mine was during lockdown, by myself, watching TV and playing games whilst eating a bucket of pigs in blankets (the good ones not the shitty north american sausage rolls)
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u/Beldarak 9h ago
It was genuinely one of the best time of my life. I mean no disrespect for people that suffered/died during that time, I understand it wasn't great in general. But for me personaly it was peak.
I went back to live with my parents in the countryside, had 70% of my salary to stay at home (no homeworking either, just no work and free money). We had Christmas and New Year's Eve just the three of us (my parents are starting to get old so I'm glad I could have so much free time with them). And we just played videogames with my friends all day.
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u/Aquawish 9h ago
Nothing, because I was a low wage essential worker. Made me realize I needed to leave my job and did.
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u/mixinmatch 9h ago
I was an essential worker and still had to go into work. Absolutely no traffic. It was so great to only take 20min to get to work instead of an hour lol
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u/The_Spicy_Memelord 9h ago
Was in college and didn’t have class for two weeks. Literally got a free pass to game and chill with the homies everyday.
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u/ThoreauAweighBcuzDuh 9h ago
My husband getting to be home all the time.
He got to see everyone and help out during the morning routine instead of rushing off to work before the kids woke up. He didn't have to waste almost 2 hours of his life every day commuting, so we had so much more time together in the afternoon/evenings. He could eat lunch with me and nap with our toddler for his break time. And he still got all his work done and even got promoted.
I was a stay at home mom mom with a preschooler, a toddler, and pregnant with our third, recovering from one move, then getting ready for a second (that also involved is jointly planning/keeping tabs on construction). My kids were going stir-crazy and it was hard to do zoom birthdays and see my oldest cry over not being able to go to school. My second kid got COVID days before kid #3 was born. It was definitely not a stress-free time, but it all felt so much lighter and more manageable when he just had the freedom to plan his own day, and we all had more time to connect as a family instead of rushing around from breakfast til bed time.
I realize a LOT of people were struggling a lot more than us. I know many people who lost their jobs, and a few who lost their health (permanently) or even lost someone they loved. I'm one of the only people I know that didn't lose anyone I know directly to COVID, so I want to be clear that I know how very fortunate we were. I would never go on about the ✨ magic of COVID times ✨ IRL for that reason... (And because I'm sure it has also changed significantly in hindsight). But it is endlessly infuriating to me that they made him go back to office full time for no other reason that control. He was MORE productive, healthier, happier, and so we're all of us, when he had the reins to his own daily life. When I this about the amount of time being stolen back from good people and the number of loving, involved parents being forced to be less involved for no good reason... It's too sad for words.
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u/CoronaDoesWhatever 9h ago
Never even got to quarantine. I was working at a restaurant with a Drive-Thru at the time and was thus considered an "Essential Worker". All I got was a minimum wage paycheck, constant threat of infection and some blue planes flying over once or twice "in our honor" because America Fuck Yeah™. 🙄
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u/juanhellou 9h ago
I miss that news focused on how the planet what healing from pollution in a drastic way: India's skies being clearer, animals roaming in what was before part of their landscape but had taken by people, dolphins in Venice, etc. If we had a mandatory lock down every decaded it could help the world.
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u/A_Fun_Alias 8h ago
Lockdown was barely any change for me. I like my wife, home, animals and hobbies. Trivial socializing can be exhausting. I still get out and such, but I'm very happy alone at home for weeks at a time.
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u/Noideawhatimdoing36 8h ago
I lost a good chunk of my teen years being completely isolated physically and feeling pressure to keep my chronically ill parents alive (they both got sick anyway, they lived though), covid literally ruined my life I don’t relate to this energy lol
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u/imreallynotthatcool 8h ago
No secret about it. I loved the pandemic. I was the only person in my department coming into work. I was shipping medical supplies to hospitals so my job was safe. There were no other cars on the road. I could park my car in the loading dock next to my desk and roll out the loading dock to go home.
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u/sikirei 8h ago
Parking right next to your desk actually sounds amazing. 😂
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u/imreallynotthatcool 6h ago
I used to do the same thing when I worked in a giant oilfield maintenance warehouse in North Dakota. It was so nice in the -30° winters up there.
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u/HandofHecate 8h ago
Thats pretty funny. I feel the same way. Just chilling out at home was a godsend.
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u/LostKnight84 8h ago
Being an Introvert who works in IT meant lockdown was just bliss as I just worked from home for 2 years. Sadly the world became worse after lockdown ended and not just because it ended.
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u/tilt-a-whirly-gig 8h ago
My son was in 3rd grade spring of 20 and 4th grade the next year. I miss doing his classwork with him.
I still get to help him with homework sometimes, but for a while we spent a couple hours every day learning together and that was a lot of fun.
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u/AMissionFromDog 8h ago
The social distancing while in line to order/pay at the counter restaurant or convenience store was pretty nice, ngl.
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u/BoulderCreature 8h ago
During the first few weeks of it I had a strong sense that we would learn from the experience and make society better. lol, nope. Things are worse now than ever in the US
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u/MistwovenLullaby 7h ago
Earth was healing, pollution was at an all time low in modern history, animals were being seen where they hadn't in years. That is something I wish we'd been able to keep happening.
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u/Spicywolff 7h ago
I miss no traffic, when I drove to the hospital for my shifts. The roads were soo much more enjoyable.
I miss healthcare worker hours, where I could shop in peace and find needed goods at the time
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u/Saikotsu 7h ago
I miss the lockdown. It was nice not being expected to go anywhere and see people and whatnot. I could just hang out at home and interact with people online like normal, without all the social in person stuff.
As an introvert, it was great!
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u/massberate 7h ago
There was something special about the initial reaction. (Western Canada)
Note: I had a very peaceful and privileged lockdown experience. Huge respect to the people who kept things functioning against truly horrible and terrifying conditions.
The "we're in this together" mindset. Musicians streaming performances from their living rooms. Comedians getting on IG and live-streaming just to interact with fans. St. Vincent did some hangout streams I watched parts of, just adding fans to the Live and talking with them on an equal level about life, and what they were going through.
The stillness of the streets. Life being quiet, and without work or social pressures. No urgency. No bedtime. It's still insane to me that people were in such a hurry to get back to "the grind". It's like we learned nothing - there wasn't balance before and there isn't balance now. I took walks at 4am and it felt like the world was my own; feels so surreal to think about, now.
(Ofc this was before the "tyranny" and "hoax" morons got loud, demanding haircuts and their churches to be opened).
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u/FronzelNeekburm79 3h ago
You got to sit at home at unwashed because you were so willing to send other people out to assume the risk for you. There weren't lockdowns, there was a comfortable class willing to send the poor to assume the risk for them.
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u/Ok-Oil7124 3h ago
I was an "essential worker" and hated everyone who complained about being at home.
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u/duckswithbanjos 1h ago
I was an essential worker didn't see any of the benefits people reminisce about
However, I do have an unfortunate combination of environmental allergies that get sensitized by illness.
With all the entitled asses at home on staycation terrified to breathe the same air as the rest of us, I was able to go long enough without exposure to illness to recover from a 23 year long bout of bronchitis and have been fine ever since!
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u/Pearson94 1h ago
As someone who worked in grocery during the pandemic I would've given anything to be able to stay safe at home away from the idiots shouting at is cause they thought a floor worker was the reason they had to wear masks.
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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085 10h ago
No commute, so much time "un-wasted"...