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Rob Revisits: 813.5 days later

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Two years ago today, I wrote about testing positive for Covid for the first time. Its all still a little surreal all these years later: the virus, the lockdowns, trying to resume normal life. Today Covid is “just another virus” and a part of our everyday lives. I think we are all still trying to process everything that happened to us in those roughly-two years.

813.5 days later

For as many ways as “the lockdown period” is behind us, the are equally as many ways that we are still dealing with the fallout from it. To this day, I still talk about life pre and post-Covid. Lots of retailers still run limited hours of operation. 24 hour stores, like Wal Mart are, likewise, a thing of the past. Movie theaters are still struggling to regain their former audiences.

I was pretty proud of myself for making it as long as I did without getting the virus; especially considering that I taught school face-to-face for much of the “pandemic period”. However, even now, I’m still meeting people who have NEVER gotten Covid yet. Businesses are realizing that a lot of the work their employees did in the office can be completed from their homes just as easily.

In what ways did Covid and “the lockdown period” permanently – or even temporarily – change your life?

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3 responses to “Rob Revisits: 813.5 days later”

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    Kevin

    My life, oddly, did not change that much in a lot of ways. My work ran the entire time. It was at night when most places are closed already, so the world did not look different to me in that regard. I slept during the day and always did my grocery shopping in the morning when it was dead anyhow.
    I’ve not set foot in a movie theater in over 10 years, and I rarely visited Wal-Mart and things like that, so that did not impact me greatly either.
    Other than the “protocols”, the news and mass hospitalizations, my personal life often looked much the same day to day.

    Where it did impact me most was in the wake of it. Trying to staff anywhere and/or manage people is a monumental pain to this day. Everyone got used to sitting home on their asses collecting money for nothing, and now a lot of them are still trying to find ways to not work. I do believe that this is partly a generational thing, and would have come to pass anyhow. The C word just accelerated it.

    I also have some gripes with the whole WFH mentality, as support for on-site personnel has gone down the toilet. A lot of people have found ways to milk that too. Like all things, taken to the extreme it’s rarely good.
    WFH in some people’s minds, seems to translate to “permanent vacation”
    Now, one can make the case that these lazy shits would have found ways to screw the system in an office setting too, and you’d likely be right. I would speculate that WFH has still given them another tool to more easily accomplish it though.

    Just my experience. YMMV.

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      rebuilding rob

      I was really taken aback by the work landscape once everything settled down. Where had all the workers gone? Yes a lot of people DIED during the pandemic, but it wasn’t as if Thanos really snapped half of humanity out of existence. Where have the rest of the workers gone?

      As you said, it’s as if lots of people gave up and stopped working. There’s always going to be deadbeats in every society, but there was also no way that many able-bodied, healthy people would, or could, live off the system forever.

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        Kevin

        A weird sense of entitlement came out of that whole debacle, and some people refuse to let it go. Now, I get the shift in perspective about burnout, etc., I experienced it myself, but a lot of people are just using it as a buffer to do jackshit now.

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