COVID retrospective - What a wild time that was!

[ToroidalBoat]

comically absurd and dystopian

A local public park at the time had all the playground stuff and outdoor tables blocked off with caution tape. Basketball hoops were taped up with the baskets removed.

Also remember the frequent reminders that "our first priority is the health and safety of you and our staff" or the like?

Yup!

Must've been quite a sight to see those fireworks in person.

 

[teriyakiburns]

Damn, the Chinese were building concentration camps which doesn't affect any of us whatsoever.

Try again.

The first and third are in Australia, you dumb fuck.

 

[std::string]

The first and third are in Australia, you dumb fuck.

Okay, and that might as well be China for all it affects me.

Keep tilting at windmills though, you'll be relevant someday.

e:

Because of COVID restrictions, an elderly relative of mine died alone in a facility. My family said goodbye to her on the phone. None of her loved ones were allowed to be with her.

My grandma died during COVID. Not from COVID. She died at home surrounded by her family because I could afford 24/7 home health care and we wanted to keep her out of the nursing home since they're terrible places.

Maybe the real answer was not shoving her in a facility to start with.

 

[Rosary Girl]

Maybe the real answer was not shoving her in a facility to start with.

I agree, it wasn’t my decision to put her there. They’re horrible places.

They at least could have let us be with her as she died though.

 

[std::string]

I agree, it wasn’t my decision to put her there. They’re horrible places.

They at least could have let us be with her as she died though.

Yeah, I agree with you on that. LTCs are usually an understaffed mess but it's not like infection control protocols are impossible. They just gave up though.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Never forgive and never forget the scamdemic. Many masks showing the extent of political corruption were dropped and we truly got a first row seat of active censorship that stifled dialogue. If there were some proper dialogue, it could have greatly brought some rationality and logic to prevent all the hysteria, lunacy, and distrust of scientific institutions. Now we know such institutions can and will be used for political gains, like the climate change agendas, the onus to be hyper critical of the information we take in is all the greater.

Massive cheers to @Drain Todger and other kiwis who aggregated all the data during the height of the scamdemic. The covid thread on here was/is the beacon of sensibility in a web of lunacy. I don't mean the conspiracy theory covid thread that's filled with Branch Covidians.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

Like I said in other thread, I imagine if the coof was out before Current Year, it would've just blown over like the swine and bird flu. And had it been the swine or bird flu instead of the coof in 2020, it likely would've been the same crapstorm as with the coof.

 

[make_it_so]

Never forgive and never forget the scamdemic. Many masks showing the extent of political corruption were dropped and we truly got a first row seat of active censorship that stifled dialogue. If there were some proper dialogue, it could have greatly brought some rationality and logic to prevent all the hysteria, lunacy, and distrust of scientific institutions. Now we know such institutions can and will be used for political gains, like the climate change agendas, the onus to be hyper critical of the information we take in is all the greater.

Massive cheers to @Drain Todger and other kiwis who aggregated all the data during the height of the scamdemic. The covid thread on here was/is the beacon of sensibility in a web of lunacy. I don't mean the conspiracy theory covid thread that's filled with Branch Covidians.

God bless @Drain Todger. The poor guy initially got pretty badly bullied because of his pisspoor opsec, but he's proven to be a great poster.

 

[Tetragrammaton]

honestly i liked the lockdowns. i was able to get away with just wearing one of those face covers hunters wear when it came to going places that required masks. which actually did surprise me since i live in a very left leaning area. as far as the social distancing and stuff of that nature was concerned i was fine with that as well since i did that stuff already to begin with.

people are disgusting and so just doing small things like washing your hands or wiping down shopping cart handles and just keeping your distance from people especially if they are coughing as if they have the plague or something is a pretty good way to avoid most illnesses. all that aside COVID lockdowns and the pandemic in general did do a very good job at showing off exactly how mindlessly dependent on the government some people really are. there are too many people who believe without a doubt that their governments would never ever lie to them.

i also noticed just how much control brands and companies have over people even when it comes to something as simple as getting their morning coffee some people are entirely unable to turn on a coffee maker and make their own coffee. they NEED to go to starbucks and they NEED to go to mcdonalds. because of those people we are now dealing with these same companies raising their prices and reducing the size of their products because they now know their customer base is so dedicated to them that they can get away with it.

but above all else the thing i will never forget is how anyone who ever dared to question things was written off as some conspiracy theorist lunatic who should be ignored.

 

[decline]

 

[make_it_so]

honestly i liked the lockdowns. i was able to get away with just wearing one of those face covers hunters wear when it came to going places that required masks. which actually did surprise me since i live in a very left leaning area. as far as the social distancing and stuff of that nature was concerned i was fine with that as well since i did that stuff already to begin with.

people are disgusting and so just doing small things like washing your hands or wiping down shopping cart handles and just keeping your distance from people especially if they are coughing as if they have the plague or something is a pretty good way to avoid most illnesses.

I've often thought if there was one positive to the pandemic, it's that it might've gotten people to adopt better hygiene. I know in Asian countries it's considered common courtesy to wear a facemask in public if you're feeling ill or coughing. I've always wondered if the COVID experience would cause a number of people to pick up the same habits, or if we would all go back to being ugly Americans once it was all over.

Hope they're ready for a 5% compliance rate if that. Lots of people are already at their wits end with these fuckers for a bunch of other stuff.

 

[The Last Stand]

I remember the first couple weeks of the COVID lockdowns. It was DEAD quiet outside. Nary a soul to be seen for blocks. I was thinking "this will blow over in a couple weeks" to "how are we going to eat?" I've never seen anything like that before in my lifetime.

Then the George Floyd riots happened, "we're never going to get out of this pandemic."

 

[Sebastian Bacchanalia]

It was the first, truly "mask off" moment that showed how much contempt those in charge had for the rest of us and our concerns. In fact, 2020 in general was a"mask off" moment for our society as a whole.

Exactly right. You can tell how much any government respects its people from the quality of the lies it tells its people. A government with a proper fear and respect for its citizens, if it dares lie to them at all, will do so with painstaking and loving care, constructing masterful deceptions. Our government thinks we are dumber than cattle and tells lies that no person with an IQ above room temperature could possibly believe.

 

[Brain Power]

I've often thought if there was one positive to the scamdemic, it's that it might've gotten people to adopt better hygiene. I know in Asian countries it's considered common courtesy to wear a facemask in public if you're feeling ill or coughing. I've always wondered if the COOF experience would cause a number of people to pick up the same habits, or if we would all go back to being ugly Americans once it was all over.

Hope they're ready for a 5% compliance rate if that. Lots of people are already at their wits end with these fuckers for a bunch of other stuff.

Masks don't do shit, they only pollute the enviroment. Asians do a lot of things, and?

 

[ToroidalBoat]

[possible lockdowns over "new variant" of coof]

That's what kept the endless "The New Normal" BS going and going and going back in 2020.

Renewed restrictions because endless "new variants" just as it seemed the BS was ending.

Hopefully that crap doesn't happen again.

 

[Matt Damon]

Masks don't do shit, they only pollute the enviroment. Asians do a lot of things, and?

Don't you srander muh grorious Nippon. They use onry the finest paper forded 1000 times for their masks desu.

 

[Homegrown Homophobia]

Masks don't do shit, they only pollute the enviroment. Asians do a lot of things, and?

Don't you srander muh grorious Nippon. They use onry the finest paper forded 1000 times for their masks desu.

It's such a mind fuck on Japan related social media to see crackers over there still religiously sporting masks and trying to out-nip the nips in that front, even while the general population there is slowly winding down on the pandemic.

EDIT : Speaking of Japan and East Asia I was one of the posters in the covid thread who was the shrillest about how things will never go back to normal there, but I'm glad to be eating crow on those statements now.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

I was one of the posters in the covid thread who was the shrillest about how things will never go back to normal there

I was worried that speculation that "face masks" could become a permanent part of Japanese ways was true, and it was looking that way for awhile. If the "face mask" (when not sick) were to become just as much a part of Japanese ways as origami or manga, that would psychologically mess people up. Can you imagine being a kid in Reiwa Japan and almost never seeing anyone's faces all the time?

IIRC, they started masking up in spring 2020. Then by fall it was winding down. But with all the BS new variants, they went back hard and didn't start to let up until this year. Hopefully the new variant doesn't make them go back to "living" like it's 2020 yet again.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I still see the occasional dipshit driving around (by themselves no less) wearing a mask or someone giving you the stink eye for not wearing one inside a store.

Looking back gives me a mixture of anger, sadness and bafflement over how many people took off their own metaphorical masks and were all too gleeful to suggest former friends and family should be thrown into camps or jail or even killed if they do much as dared to question anything. It permanently changed my relationship with some people that in the Before Times, in the Long Long Ago I considered dear friends, and not for the better. I can’t look at them in the same light anymore, much less respect them.

 

[Metatron]

What made me MATI the most was the nurses crying about so much work, being the pillars of society, all the while recording the cringiest tiktok dance.

It was really symbolic of our society as a whole.