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Does anyone else feel like we are still living in the shadow of COVID?
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:12 pm
I don’t mean I’m still wearing a mask or worried to go anywhere (I never was) or that the disease itself is still affecting my life in any meaning way. But since 2020 it has felt like basically constant or less interrupted chaos. Especially in the economy.
Things aren’t that bad but it feels like since 2020 even though I am making a little more money since then, things are as tight as they’ve been. I have gotten married and bought a house in that time so those are big expenses but even outside of that. Just feels like things truly have not settled down since then and continue to be a little chaotic.
Not sure if anyone gets that same vibe or feeling. I was reading about the Obamacare subsidies in more depth (not to get political) and just kind of blew my mind that they had only been around for 6 years until COVID hit and we are coming up on 6 years since COVID. 2014-2020 feels like a lifetime compared to 2020-2026. Just feels like we had 2-3 solid years almost sucked away between 2020-2023 and it has greatly fricked my sense of time relative to before and after 2020.
Things aren’t that bad but it feels like since 2020 even though I am making a little more money since then, things are as tight as they’ve been. I have gotten married and bought a house in that time so those are big expenses but even outside of that. Just feels like things truly have not settled down since then and continue to be a little chaotic.
Not sure if anyone gets that same vibe or feeling. I was reading about the Obamacare subsidies in more depth (not to get political) and just kind of blew my mind that they had only been around for 6 years until COVID hit and we are coming up on 6 years since COVID. 2014-2020 feels like a lifetime compared to 2020-2026. Just feels like we had 2-3 solid years almost sucked away between 2020-2023 and it has greatly fricked my sense of time relative to before and after 2020.
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Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:14 pm to jlovel7
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Does anyone else feel like we are still living in the shadow of COVID?
Yes we are and no one was held accountable for anything.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:15 pm to jlovel7
Eyes were opened to how quickly tyranny took over.
We are all still dealing with that.
We are all still dealing with that.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:17 pm to jlovel7
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But since 2020 it has felt like basically constant or less interrupted chaos. Especially in the economy.
It’s like that all the time. It was like that before 2020.
Dotcom bubble bursting, 9/11, GFC all happened in the 2000s.
2010s were relatively stable unless you were in O&G.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:20 pm to jlovel7
Welcome to 2008, 2001, 1991, 1981, 1973 and on and on. Geo-political issues have caused this feeling for the middle-class forever.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:21 pm to jlovel7
Our economy was systematically and purposely destroyed, our institutions fully discredited, and no one responsible was held accountable, so yes.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:23 pm to JohnnyKilroy
I definitely feel like prices went through the roof and are still artificially high. I' have absolutely no empirical data to support my theory, I just look at prices and think they went up due to the "shut down" but manufacturers and retailers have kept them artificially high.
It the only negative thing I have to say about the current admin. Don't know how they can fix it, but everything is high as giraffe pussy.
It the only negative thing I have to say about the current admin. Don't know how they can fix it, but everything is high as giraffe pussy.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:27 pm to jlovel7
We all learned half the country was on board with forcing folks to get a shot or else be fired from their job or denied hospital access.
Pretty big eye opener.
Pretty big eye opener.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:57 pm to jlovel7
Absolutely
I think it set off some kind of mass psychosis
I think it set off some kind of mass psychosis
Posted on 11/10/25 at 4:57 pm to jlovel7
If it had not happened we might still have transvestites leading the military.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 5:15 pm to jlovel7
Yes, and it will never be the same again.
People figured out how differently we all think when they were online during the lockdown.
College Football is fuked too, but that’s another story.
People figured out how differently we all think when they were online during the lockdown.
College Football is fuked too, but that’s another story.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 5:16 pm to jlovel7
Only time I hear about COVID is on this board it seems
Posted on 11/10/25 at 6:48 pm to forkedintheroad
quote:Still can't believe the whole world took its cue from Communist China on how to deal with it. Welding people shut inside their apartments and the world decided to follow their lead.
Eyes were opened to how quickly tyranny took over.
We are all still dealing with that.
Hindsight is 20/20, but it's a shame we couldn't have turned it into something like a wartime effort. Protect the elderly and those with co-morbidities, then mass distribute Ivermectin, zinc, melatonin, Benadryl and lactoferrin to everyone and tell those willing to fight to go to work and keep our way of life alive despite COVID.
It would have been a lot more American than shutting down the entire economy and being forced to hide inside our homes on lockdown from an infection with a less than 1 percent fatality rate. It's supposed to be the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 6:49 pm to jlovel7
Anecdotal but feels like a lot of downtowns never recovered
Posted on 11/10/25 at 6:50 pm to jlovel7
It ruined a generation of kids, and introduced a level of paranoia to adults that exceeds the cold war threat of being nuked.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 6:51 pm to jlovel7
Some of us were saying from the very beginning that the people in charge didn’t have the right to make such sweeping decisions for society and the economy and that there was no way to tell what might result.
We were right. Things have been worse ever since and politically we are about to disintegrate as a country.
We were right. Things have been worse ever since and politically we are about to disintegrate as a country.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 6:51 pm to Big Fat Guy
2019 wasn’t just six years ago or a different time. It was a truly different world.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 6:52 pm to Earnest_P
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Things have been worse ever since
Something other than COVID happened that year too, but if I mention it, we'll get RA'd to move to poli.
Posted on 11/10/25 at 6:55 pm to jlovel7
Seems like the perfect excuse for every economic problem. All you hear is “supply-chain issues due to post-pandemic this that or the other”.
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