What do you miss most from your pre-Covid life?

[MagicSummer]

I miss:-

• Being in a crowd of people without worrying if they are infected
• Shopping for fun and trying on clothes and using make-up testers
• Just browsing in shops without feeling uncomfortable
• Planning and looking forward to a holiday
• Just feeling normal!

It’s funny how people who are pro vaccine don’t seem nearly as interested in telling others what to do.

Lol. Have you read any posts on here? There’s plenty of them. Lots of people on both ‘sides’ being vile but I mostly see it directed at the non vaccinated.

My mum

@robotcollision

Casual interaction with strangers. An older lady dropped something on the pavement during lockdown and I had to resist the urge to pick it up and hand it to her. It made me sad that the way we normally help each other or share with strangers without thinking has been put on hold and it might not return.

What ? I'd always do that. Offer to pick it up for them and if they're OK for me to touch it.

If you're that worried just keep your hands away from your face until you can wash them again or carry wipes.

My mum

Travel abroad
Work (NHS front line) without a pandemic

Being able to book a flight to LHR in the morning and being on it that night.
Now we’re at the whim of whenever the government and BA decide to operate repatriation flights.

I miss my kids not knowing what “the birus” was (pandemic started when youngest was 2). They still call it “the birus” bless them.

They ask when it’s going to be over from time to time and that makes me sad. I never had to worry about such big things at such a little age. Before anyone says anything - we’ve shielded them as much as we could but pre-school and school drummed things into them - such as they can’t hug each other when they see each other at school because they aren’t in the same bubble at school. So they know it’s serious.

Tester perfumes on shelves

Uncomplicated travel abroad. I also miss the fact that my closest friend has become very anxious and isn't up for spa days or eating inside in restaurants any more.

Swimming. Seeing friends casually. Wandering around shops. Christmas markets. Going into public toilets without thinking twice.

Honestly, I don't know if I'll ever be able to enjoy these things again without some underlying sense of tension when people get too close or clear their throat or cough or something.

I almost wish I'd ignored the whole thing and kept on as usual.

Travel, I have family who live abroad and some events I enjoy visiting.

Just being able to do stuff without thinking about the risk of the virus, restrictions, what would be impacted if we have to isolate.

Also really can’t wait for the day where I am not hyper alert the moment one of us coughs, is slightly warm, or looks a little of colour.

Really also am getting sick of just feeling like there is little point is planning anything too far in advance.

Travel. We're due to go to Greece at the end of August and still have no idea whether we are going (mainly because both of us are nervous of testing positive just before we come home and having to quarantine there).

Not being able to watch the news, or pick up a paper, without relentless emphasis on numbers, doom & gloom, no positive news.

Spontaneity
Travel
Love music
Fussing babies and toddlers in the supermarket
Idle chat with strangers
Just being able to turn up at the pub and get a table

Spontaneity about everything, lunch or coffee out most places need booking in advance. I miss just being able to grab my purse and dash out no mask and gel in my bag. A lot of public toilets in my area still haven’t opened, so because I have IBS, I have to not eat and dose myself up with medication before I can go out, just in case.
My 4 yr old grandchild losing their carefree innocence, knowing about COVID, having to isolate and missing out on nursery. The COVID lockdown times, hopefully a short period of time overall in grown up lives, is a huge chunk of a 4 year olds life.
My lovely MIL, she was in a nursing home, so I didn’t get to see her in her last year of life, nor did her grandchildren until she was end of life in hospital but at that stage she wasn’t aware that we were there. My DH did get to see her after months of no visits at all but her dementia had got so much worse due to the isolation she barely knew who he was it was heartbreaking. Keeping her safe from COVID, she died of something else, did her no favours really.

The sea.

Clothes shopping, and trying on clothes.
Just popping out for anything without booking stuff.
Going on our yearly holiday abroad without the palava of testing.

Holidays. And I'm feeling a bit victimised because every single time I take any annual leave it fucking rains.

Oh and not worrying that something will be cancelled.

@armanted are you in the UK? Can you not manage a day trip to the sea?

My Mum - he died at the beginning of the pandemic.

sorry - should be my husband!!!

Taking my kids swimming.
Our family slots are alway fully booked in our area. My older 2 dc are total water babys and my 18 month old has never been yet.

Seeing my parents 🙁 I live in Switzerland and my parents live in the Uk. I can’t see them without quarantine because I don’t have a NHS supplied vaccine and my children can’t see them without quarantining too and the costs of the tests in the Uk is so high.
I can go on holiday to Greece but I can’t see/it’s very difficult and expensive to see my parents.

Overseas travel.