Do people still look back in anger over COVID restrictions? - And by that I mean, how many people are still looking back in anger over them?

[Alex Hogendorp]

In my opinion. COVID restrictions feel nothing more than a minor inconvenience and naive implementation for me. Though I don't like COVID restrictions very much, I no longer feel it to be medical tyranny like I used to back in the day. I still remember people spreading fear porn about "A new virus" or "Pandemic treaty" after COVID on both sides of the spectrum. Yes. I am still aware that people died from either the Vaccine or the Virus around that time. But in my opinion. The COVID vaccine isn't much different from other vaccines.

Edit: While writing this, I forgot to implement the suicides, families torn apart, people dying from the vaccine side effects and so on. So yeah. I do look back in anger.

 

[Maurice Maine]

In theory it destroyed the global economy but stuff seems the same to me.

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

People probably killed themselves from threats of having to take a vaccine to stay at their jobs and access goods and services. They should fucking look back in anger. It was Papers Please in every store in Australia.

 

[Green Kitbash]

I mean it was certainly cool to have my job threatened because at the time I wanted to wait.

Now do I look back in anger? Oh yeah, 100%. I will hold that time over people forever

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

In theory it destroyed the global economy but stuff seems the same to me.

I am absolutely aware the effects it had on the economy were gonna linger for decades to come. If there's anything to look back in anger to regarding to COVID restriction to me is the economical damages and the businesses that didn't survive.

People probably killed themselves from threats of having to take a vaccine to stay at their jobs and access goods and services. They should fucking look back in anger. It was Papers Please in every store in Australia.

I mean it was certainly cool to have my job threatened because at the time I wanted to wait.

Now do I look back in anger? Oh yeah, 100%. I will hold that time over people forever

It really did feel weird for sure in my opinion. In contrary though. Most people don't even want the thoroughly look through said papers and QR codes to get the line over with. Most honestly don't care if they're vaccinated or not.

 

[Aunt Carol]

Answers are going to vary wildly based on what restrictions were in place (and how much they were enforced) in the reader's area. Even across the US, states and jurisdictions acted differently.

I am mostly angry at people who got to have a fun vacation where they learned to bake bread, and believe we should reassess if those Eloi are truly necessary for society.

 

[Huh what?]

In theory it destroyed the global economy but stuff seems the same to me.

The economy was destroyed long before COVID.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Answers are going to vary wildly based on what restrictions were in place (and how much they were enforced) in the reader's area. Even across the US, states and jurisdictions acted differently.

I am mostly angry at people who got to have a fun vacation where they learned to bake bread, and believe we should reassess if those Eloi are truly necessary for society.

Yeah. A lot of these people who made these rules don't even follow their own rules either. They happen to be hypocrites in a massive extent.

 

[Halo Cipher]

It tore families apart, ruined businesses, destroyed employment of good people, created enormous mental health problems, stunted the development of children, refused entry into churches, caused countless suicides from isolation and death from vaccine reactions, and resulted in many losing their homes. This is not even going into things like crazy responses to the trucker protests and all the related ones globally to vaccine mandates when people made their voices heard. Fuck these people. I will never forget.

 

[Two Hands]

TMI. I look back with resentment over the restrictions because of the opportunities, milestones, and time I feel cheated out on. Skill issue on my part. While the world returned back to normal, nothing has truly been the same since. The pandemic accelerated or exacerbated whatever problems you want to point at.

Yeah. A lot of these people who made these rules don't even follow their own rules either. They happen to be hypocrites in a massive extent.

I remember hearing about politicians having house parties during the peak of COVID while having people arrested and promoting snitch hotlines you'd get paid for. I wouldn't say people forgot about it but we've moved on. They got away scot-free.

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

TMI. I look back in anger over the restrictions because of the opportunities, milestones, and time I feel cheated out on. Skill issue on my part. While the world returned back to normal, nothing has truly been the same since. The pandemic accelerated or exacerbated whatever problems you want to point at.

I remember hearing about politicians having house parties during the peak of COVID while having people arrested and promoting snitch hotlines you'd get paid for. I wouldn't say people forgot about it but we've moved on. They got away scot-free.

It tore families apart, ruined businesses, destroyed employment of good people, created enormous mental health problems, stunted the development of children, refused entry into churches, caused countless suicides from isolation and death from vaccine reactions, and resulted in many losing their homes. This is not even going into things like crazy responses to the trucker protests and all the related ones globally to vaccine mandates when people made their voices heard. Fuck these people. I will never forget.

I definitely agree with many points here. The Pandemic and well as many people's response to it has ruined so many things and opportunities. If there is anything I really don't forgive about this pandemic. It's the fact it divided people even more. There's so many schisms in our world it drives me insane.

 

[The Feline Solution]

100%. Pretty much ruined any chances of me not eventually dying in a pauper's grave. Cost me all of my savings and destroyed what should've been a safe and very lucrative business venture virtually over night. My business partner got fucked even worse by it. I hate even thinking about it.

 

[Not A Bunny]

Even back then, I was saying that even masks hurt people. It turned people into stigmatized, ugly, malicious bags of germs. We were all dehumanized by that alone.

Then add to lockdowns. Some people were "essential", and others were not. Now there's some shit you don't need to ponder while you're alone at home for months.

This shit cracked people psychologically, and we will be seeing that for decades to come. Especially children. It wouldn't surprise me if we have an upcoming generation that simply can't function properly in society because they were taught at an age where these things imprint on them that the government can take away your entire life on its whim, and therefore, there's nothing to live for or look forward to because it can happen at any time.

Yes, I look back in anger, because I called it. Anyone who has ever been in an abusive, restrictive relationship called it.

And I have not received an apology or told I was right by anyone. Oh, they all know I was right, they just can't bring themselves to admit it.

 

[Farsided]

And I have not received an apology or told I was right by anyone. Oh, they all know I was right, they just can't bring themselves to admit it.

It certainly exposed a lot of people as being complete lunatics if given the go-ahead by authorities.
At least you know who you can count on. Sucks if that 'who' is reduced to just yourself but that's something I guess.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I no longer hold on to any feelings of anger, that doesn’t do me any good. However, just because I’m no longer what you’d call angry doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten the way people gleefully turned on one another, destroying countless relationships and lives. I haven’t forgotten jobs being threatened if you hadn’t received your Fauchi Ouchie yet. I haven’t forgotten friends, family, loved ones turning on each other like rabid animals ready to gnaw your face off if you so much as questioned anything. I haven’t forgotten, nor will I forget. I’m not angry but that experience left me incredibly weary and disappointed with a vast majority of people.

 

[Chadikus Maximus]

Anger seems like the wrong word Bitter resentment would be more apt.
There is the obvious things like being demonized for daring to suggest that taking the experimental untested jab might not be the best Idea or that the cost of living is soaring and is showing no sign of slowing down but on a personal note there is the fact that any progress I might have made toward no longer being a comically antisocial sperg got wiped clean by the lock downs

 

[Catboy Ranch]

Millions of people were told by their employers to produce the "papers, please." And if they did not, they were going on termination lists.

But then they ran from this when Biden was sued and he lost. So no company could point in court to OSHA and say it was needed to stay in compliance. With their asses hanging out in clear liability, they ran.

And now we learned later that the bugjuice we spent HUNDREDS of billions of dollars on was for shit.


They were willing to push the unemployment rate up 10-15% for bugjuice that did not work.


You bet I am fucking angry.

 

[Napoleon Bonerfart]

Millions of people were told by their employers to produce the "papers, please." And if they did not, they were going on termination lists.

But then they ran from this when Biden was sued and he lost. So no company could point in court to OSHA and say it was needed to stay in compliance. With their asses hanging out in clear liability, they ran.

And now we learned later that the bugjuice we spent HUNDREDS of billions of dollars on was for shit.


They were willing to push the unemployment rate up 10-15% for bugjuice that did not work.


You bet I am fucking angry.

Gonna start a revolution from my bed
'Cause you said the brains I had went to my head
Step outside 'cause summertime's in bloom

Stand up beside the fireplace
Take that look from off your face
'Cause you ain't ever gonna burn my heart out

And so Sally can wait
She knows its too late as she's walking on by
My soul slides away
"But don't look back in anger" I heard you say

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

I no longer hold on to any feelings of anger, that doesn’t do me any good. However, just because I’m no longer what you’d call angry doesn’t mean I’ve forgotten the way people gleefully turned on one another, destroying countless relationships and lives. I haven’t forgotten jobs being threatened if you hadn’t received your Fauchi Ouchie yet. I haven’t forgotten friends, family, loved ones turning on each other like rabid animals ready to gnaw your face off if you so much as questioned anything. I haven’t forgotten, nor will I forget. I’m not angry but that experience left me incredibly weary and disappointed with a vast majority of people.

Well said. I often question the vaccine passport system of the booster because of how it feels inconsistent to me. However, I am aware the Vaccine Passport system predated COVID and nobody realized they existed until then. People were actually forced to take untested vaccines to go to certain areas or keep their jobs, and many of those vaccines are even worse than the COVID vaccine. It was nothing new and it never went away.

 

[JethroTullamore]

No no no no no, the government attempting to tell everyone what to wear, where they could go and what medicine to put in their body is totally something we should just forget about and not think of again.
I’m not mad, you’re mad.