re: COVID and the death of friendship

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Even now knowing lockdowns, masks, and jabs did absolutely nothing to stop or slow Covid, people still continue to boost, wear masks, and isolate.

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Only because the left politicized it and made it a badge of their anti-conservatism/Trumpism and their supposed superior intelligence and reverence for "The Science" over religion "horse dewormer" etc. It is completely political for 99.8% of those folks. Jokes on them because they've been the biggest morons throughout this whole thing.

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I see a group of 4-6 friends out on the town, and I wonder how anyone could do that. I don't get it.

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You don't get people being social?

I'm the opposite, I see people who have no friends and only hang out with their spouse and kids and wonder how they can go through life like that.

Sounds like you are just getting older.

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only hang out with their spouse and kids

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Makes you wonder what happens when they become empty nesters and their kids are living their own separate lives.

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100% true. My experience over the last couple decades, since the Bush/Cheney years, is that it's libs who are quick to just write people off and cut them out of their lives due to political differences. It's because they think conservatives are literal Nazis, so they feel justified in doing so. Disagree with them on anything? You're a racist/nazi. End of conversation

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100% true. My experience over the last couple decades, since the Obama years, is that it's repubs who are quick to just write people off and cut them out of their lives due to political differences. It's because they think liberals are literal Communists, so they feel justified in doing so. Disagree with them on anything? You're a Marxist/communist. End of conversation

It works both ways. Our problem is we’ve lost our humanity. We don’t see situations and think critically anymore. We don’t see people anymore. We see everything through a political lens of one side vs the other. And the sides we think we’re arguing for aren’t even real anymore. The parties we believe we’re voting for are long since dead but we haven’t caught up yet.

I don’t remember high school history class because I was on drugs but think most societies that get to this point turn out ok and peacefully resolve their differences.

Until we acknowledge that we’re all Americans and we should work together to keep the country going instead of tearing each other down to win points in a meaningless but well crafted political theatre nothing will change and it’ll only get worse.

But hey student loan forgiveness and free drugs and foreign wars might take care of it.

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only hang out with their spouse and kids Makes you wonder what happens when they become empty nesters and their kids are living their own separate lives.

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You travel with your spouse? I don’t think anyone is saying to not have friends, but in college, my friendships were everything. Now they aren’t, and I’m perfectly content with seeing these people at reunions or on social media, etc. I find that my single friends are bitter and they aren’t interested in my life with kids, just as I’m not overly interested in their lives.

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yeah... you always see posts justifying that type of stuff with "when you have kids your priorities change" or whatever, but when i grew up we had 4-5 families that had "parties" on the weekends, weekend day trips, sometimes full on vacations, all the time. most of the kids i grew up with had the same thing

i know no kids = no opinion on here, but you won't convince me that only hanging out with your spouse and kids is normal

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I have a really close friend group of 6, 4 of us live near each other and have kids. We hangout at least once a month, a smaller subgroup in there will hang out even more often than that. My wife has a similar sized friend group and we hang out with at least one couple out of that group weekly or bi-weekly. That's not even counting our neighbors that we see fairly often.

I do also know some people who let having kids completely destroy their social lives, IMO it's not that hard to get a babysitter and still have a life

Of the 5 friends that I grew up with one lives in Boston, another Arizona, another Texas, another one is dead. One does live in Mandeville but he's got 5 kids.

I'm sure we'd hang out some if we lived around each other.

My wife grew up in a different state so obviously she's not around old friends.

The cure was deadlier than the bug. Damn shame how people bought into this political fiasco - and some still do. Still wearing mask, still testing, still using it as convenient excuse not to work. Sick I tell ya. The weakest generation by a lot.

Hell, most of my high school friends left the city we grew up in for better places and now I hardly talk to any of them, and that was like 6 years ago. Life happens. Covid had nothing to do with this. But covid probably made it worse for some people.