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re: COVID and the death of friendship
Posted on 10/24/22 at 7:38 am to elprez00
Posted on 10/24/22 at 7:38 am to elprez00
quote:I’m noticing this a lot more. Very sad.
It’s just shocking to me how easily people are willing to isolate themselves from the world. You only get one life and you spend it sitting in your house without any interaction.
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Posted on 10/24/22 at 8:01 am to elprez00
quote:You lost "get together". I lost friends.4 kinda close and a few more that I knew well.
This group was more than happy to let social interaction die.
That first round of the Wu flu wasn't anything to play with.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 8:01 am to elprez00
Nah. Thankfully most of my friends are republicans and don’t care about Covid
Posted on 10/24/22 at 8:06 am to elprez00
It likely wasn't just COVID.. In reality, people move on with their lives. You are friends with people for a period in time and then things change. Doesn't mean you dislike each other, priorities just change.
COVID was likely just the catalyst to get it all started. Lock everything down for a year and people find hobbies and new people closer to them to interact with.
COVID was likely just the catalyst to get it all started. Lock everything down for a year and people find hobbies and new people closer to them to interact with.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 8:14 am to elprez00
Sounds like you had too many liberal friends.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 8:34 am to elprez00
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Since Covid hit, I’ve seen this group maybe twice. This group was more than happy to let social interaction die. We invited them to parties for our kids, they declined. Many haven’t held parties for their own kids. Wouldn’t even schedule the football game cookouts, nothing. Communication died out.
Maybe it’s you and they used Covid as an excuse to ditch you.
ETA: I don’t mean this as a knock against you. I’m simply saying they may have “moved on” or gotten busy with their own kids or other distractions and they’re just using Covid as the precedent for their antisocial behavior.
This post was edited on 10/24/22 at 8:41 am
Posted on 10/24/22 at 8:35 am to DownSouthJukin
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If they let Covid get between you and them, then you neither want nor need them as “friends,” anyway.
I didn't get this from the OP. I took him to mean that during Covid, people's habits changed and they never got back into the rhythm of being around each other.
I don't think it was because people freaked out about Covid.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 8:46 am to elprez00
I didn’t lose a group but did lose 2 friends I’ve had since childhood. Growing up they were the more uh quirky out of the group of neighborhood kids but they went full swan dive off a cliff with Covid. From what I’ve seen on social media, I think they are back out and about doing things. However, I have no desire to rekindle any sort of friendship with people like that.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:08 am to elprez00
Covid absolutely killed social life. Not because people still fear it, but it’s like they were retrained to keep to themselves
It’s weird. But I’ve noticed a lot of social scenes just disappeared since then
It’s weird. But I’ve noticed a lot of social scenes just disappeared since then
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:15 am to fallguy_1978
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It's really odd how many people I still see in masks
Same here. It seems like masking is making a comeback. I guess they are all anticipating whatever new variant Fauci will be scaring folks with next.
I haven't lost any friends over Covid, but there are some that I rarely see in person anymore. They text or call, but they won't go anywhere people gather in large numbers, that includes the mall, the gym, movie theaters, etc. When some of them found out that my wife and I went with my brother and his family to Universal Studios last year, I thought their heads were going to explode. It's sad really.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:16 am to BabyTac
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Unless it’s just super convenient (like direct neighbors) these friendships just fade away.
This part of growing up sucks
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:17 am to LouisianaLonghorn
I don't know many progressives or at least don't have any friends that are far left. My older sister is but she's not a virtue signaling Covidian
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:19 am to TheFlyingTiger
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COVID was/is the biggest propaganda campaign in history.
Well, the good news is that it shined a light on a great many things:
1. The media is a propaganda machine for the gov't
2. Modern medicine is wholly controlled by the feds
3. Social media is a modern plague on society
4. When the chips are down, Republicans and Democrats are equally eager to suspend our civil liberties for the 'greater good'
COVID was a trial run for something far worse. They were just laying the base.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:22 am to whit
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It’s just shocking to me how easily people are willing to isolate themselves from the world. I have friends that did this and looking back it seems Covid was the excuse for them to finally not have to be social anymore. Now they’re homebody’s and keep to themselves mostly. Only time I see them is when I make the effort and I have to go to their house because they ain’t leaving.
Maybe people don’t want to be bothered with other people and would rather spend time with their families.
People should respect choices and move on.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:24 am to TheFlyingTiger
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Propaganda is effective.
COVID was/is the biggest propaganda campaign in history.
UKRAINE: Hold my beer
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:28 am to elprez00
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this was one of the things holding us to staying in Louisiana
Then this is a true blessing
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:29 am to LSUGrad9295
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I don't think it was because people freaked out about Covid.
I think that people underestimate how powerful a motivator fear can be, even more so than greed. It's hands down the easiest way for the government to control us. This administration wants to divide us and turn us against each other. It's amazing how different America is today from how it was just 3 years ago.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:32 am to IkeandTina
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Maybe people don’t want to be bothered with other people and would rather spend time with their families.
Is this even healthy? Define bothered with other people?
It’s absolutely imperative for good mental health to have an outlet other than being with family 24/7.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:33 am to AtlantaLSUfan
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Mainly it’s kids. Kids are so wonderful people focus their life around them. People with kids the same age will become closer friends than their best friend from before kids.
Truth. I work a lot. When I’m not working, I want to be with my kids and wife. Just home with them or doing things with them. Not at a bar or tailgate or whatever. It feels like such an imposition when I have to do anything.
Posted on 10/24/22 at 9:35 am to Pepperoni
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2019 November “election”,
The gubernatorial election?
I will say that my high school group’s dynamic has changed because of politics. The people that only talk about politics have been around less because they’re depressing buzzkills, and they’re invited less often now.
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