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!

Being able to book my driving test.
I've had two cancelled due to both lockdowns and failed it Friday. There's no availability in my area for the next year to rebook.

Travelling and spontaneity

Friends.

My holiday home

Concerts.

Dentistry

It would be nice to actually see a GP

Spontaneity

Going shopping without having hand sanitizer forced on me and people shouting at me for going the wrong way

Not wearing face masks.

I miss most of the things listed above and believe that many of them won't return in the same format.

I’m currently suffering after my second jab so started to peruse last minute holidays. Was having a lovely time looking at last minute to Aruba before I remembered about Covid and shut the webpage 😢

I miss:

holidays
Going out anywhere I like for no reason just a mooch round the shops
Nights out
Not being scared of seeing people because they could have covid and kill me or my loved ones
Getting a cold and cough and knowing that’s all it is
Eating out
Not sanitising constantly when out in public
Not having conversations and judgement thrown around about vaxxers/anti-vaxxers and the what I feel to be a very divisive subject. It’s like brexit again but 10000x worse.
Seeing family who live miles away and being too scared to risk the drive as we can’t get there on one tank of fuel and picking it up and delivering it as a shitty nice to see you gift.
Just turning up and doing activities on the spur of the moment - booking it in advance gives me time to worry about the weather and covid and not book it.
Not worrying about any affects my DTs will experience from this and how to keep them safe from an invisible enemy.

I really just miss normal life and doing what I want which isn’t really much - but that was my choice rather than forced now!

My dd, who's visit home last year was cancelled, and it's unlikely that she will get home this year either. Also when my elderly mum was in hospital recently we were completely cut off from her. She never got to grips with mobile phones so was completely isolated. So for me, family.

I had to check this wasn’t a zombie thread as apart from foreign travel which I miss you can do most things that have been mentioned .
So it’s not what you can’t do is what you choose not to do for some .

Everything. I just really miss normal life

My friends.

People who at the beginning I would have assumed we'd keep up with just disappeared. We shielded DD and other people were able to have a bit more freedom before us. That's when I realised that groups we'd previously have been a part of had stayed in touch with each other and carried on as best they could without us.

People I would have counted as close supportive friends who didn't get in touch when my mum died.

My mum.

The ongoing healthcare my daughter should have been having for her multiple needs.

@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.

Why wouldn't you help the elderly lady? An elderly man dropped his walking stick in Tesco during lockdown and I picked it up for him. Why wouldn't I?

@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!

Apart from number one and using makeup testers, I am doing all those things. What I miss is meeting new people. It's technically possible now, but hasn't happened.

@Serenschintte

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.

Similar situation here. It's so stupid that the UK won't recognise our vaccines.

Live music.
Holidays (I can't even afford a small uk one coz prices have risen so much)

Going into my local cafe once a week for cake and coffee. I had made it a little self care ritual to treat myself once a week with an hour or so of peace and quiet with a book in the cafe by the sea. Now I stick to a drive-through starbucks coffee and sit in the car park for a bit.

Also the blissful life without people who think wearing a mask makes them oppressed.

@SmokedPaprikaHotChilliPowder during the height of lockdown you didn't even get close to people, let alone touch one of their belongings without their permission, especially if they were elderly and possibly frail. It was just not done. I would now. But in March last year people turned to the wall if you had to pass each other closer than 6ft away in the street. Social distancing seemed way more important.

"Why wouldn't you help the elderly lady? An elderly man dropped his walking stick in Tesco during lockdown and I picked it up for him. Why wouldn't I?"

I know it's not mainly transmitted by surfaces, but some people still think it is because the government still goes on about hand washing rather than about ventilation. So I suppose the poster might be scared that the old woman would be scared of catching Covid from her. I also avoid touching things for other people if I can help it.

@RaindropsOnRosie

Going into my local cafe once a week for cake and coffee. I had made it a little self care ritual to treat myself once a week with an hour or so of peace and quiet with a book in the cafe by the sea. Now I stick to a drive-through starbucks coffee and sit in the car park for a bit.

Also the blissful life without people who think wearing a mask makes them oppressed.

Are you vulnerable? Because cafes are open now aren't they? I go at every opportunity in case they close again.

Being able to go and see my dad

Australia

Mine is the same as yours @MagicSummer !!

@Gwenhwyfar I am, and I can't have the vaccine. I'd be there in a second if I could!

[quote RaindropsOnRosie]@Gwenhwyfar I am, and I can't have the vaccine. I'd be there in a second if I could![/quote]
What a pity. I hope you can go at the end of this wave.

@Gwenhwyfar

"Why wouldn't you help the elderly lady? An elderly man dropped his walking stick in Tesco during lockdown and I picked it up for him. Why wouldn't I?"

I know it's not mainly transmitted by surfaces, but some people still think it is because the government still goes on about hand washing rather than about ventilation. So I suppose the poster might be scared that the old woman would be scared of catching Covid from her. I also avoid touching things for other people if I can help it.

It's also that they might be scared that you touch their things. What was once an act of kindness could now be construed as a source of danger and I find that very sad.

"It's also that they might be scared that you touch their things."

That is what I wrote!

I wrote " the old woman would be scared of catching Covid from her" and I explained that it's because the government emphasised surface transmission at the beginning.

"What was once an act of kindness could now be construed as a source of danger and I find that very sad."

Yes, same goes for things like handshake. I'm all in favour of the end of social kissing though.