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If covid hadn’t have happened I … [fill in the gap]

132 replies

madamura · 19/09/2024 22:21

I wouldn’t be in the job I’m in today.

I live in a city where the pay is not good. Now because hybrid working is such a huge thing I can work in a different city.

OP posts:
PeterCapaldiBae · 19/09/2024 23:03

I wouldn't have lost a tooth!

CherryValley5 · 19/09/2024 23:05

I wouldn’t have a young adult, still stuck at home with mental health issues!

ReformMyArse · 19/09/2024 23:08

would still have my lovely mum alive.
would still have 3 colleagues (nhs) alive.
wouldn’t have gained 2 stone in comfort eating.
wouldn’t have appreciated the countryside and walking like I now do.

Temporaryname158 · 19/09/2024 23:08

Would have found it much harder to leave my abusive boyfriend. The fact he lived in another city meant he couldn’t visit and it gave me the small bit of space to leave him (it wasn’t that simple but it was the start)

OhMaria2 · 19/09/2024 23:09

Wouldn't have quit teaching, got married or had my son.

Xiaoxiong · 19/09/2024 23:18

Same as you @ASpritzOfMyFavouritePerfume but...I would also have more hair, and the hair I do have wouldn't be white.

It went mostly white and fell out in the second lockdown when we were all at home trying to work full time and supervise DCs in year 2 and 4 online learning with none of the allowances made by work in the first lockdown - second time was just, get on with it. I was so stressed I often couldn't breathe with my heart pounding out of my chest and thought I might be having a heart attack.

kavvYourselfAMerryLittleXmas · 19/09/2024 23:20

My daughter and I would not have been disabled with long COVID.

FloofyKat · 19/09/2024 23:22

My ex and I would have been able to sell the marital much sooner. And I’d
probably be living somewhere completely different.

LadyChilli · 19/09/2024 23:25

I would have gone all in in an entirely unsuitable relationship (work colleague) who would have been horrifically wrong for me. Thank goodness he got stuck abroad when it all kicked off.

Herewegoagainandagainandagain · 19/09/2024 23:35

Wouldn't have had to wait at home for two weeks while mum died alone with no means to talk to or see her.

Wouldn't have had had to make the decision with the doctors over a zoom call to stop her usual life saving treatment as it was now at the point it was too much for her body along with covid.

I would have been able to be with her and hold her hand, comfort her and say goodbye.

Do we really need to keep having these same repetitive and ridiculously insensitive threads over and over again. It's been years now, its over, let people heal and let's all move on.

So glad you got a nice job out of it.

KitchenDancefloor · 19/09/2024 23:48

Would be a stone lighter.

(We still get to blame covid for this in 2024, right? Back me up on this, please)

KitchenDancefloor · 19/09/2024 23:49

@Herewegoagainandagainandagain
Sorry about my ill-timed post straight after yours.

I lost my Mum in similar circumstances in 2020. It was so shit. I hope you're healing.

EasyComfortDishes · 19/09/2024 23:51

Would have become a SAHM - thank goodness I didn’t
Would still be on speaking terms with the neighbours (fell out over covid)
Would be a bit healthier - I drank too much for about 2 years.

queenofthewild · 19/09/2024 23:52

Half of my house wouldn't have become my husband's office.

Aconite20 · 19/09/2024 23:59

... could have continued to work for myself, my partner wouldn't be decrepit and burnt out and I wouldn't have an incompetent psychopath for a line manager. We wouldn't need to sell our flat either. And I wouldn't look ten years older than I am.

snowbellsundersnow · 20/09/2024 00:03

Probably wouldn’t have left London.

I think I would have had a happier time with my second child as well, as the first few weeks after she was born were amazing but then it was all a bit shit as soon as lockdown started.

leeder · 20/09/2024 00:11

Would not have been able to buy cheaper stocks in the market crash, which have now recovered enough to allow me to retire early.

Tharshe · 20/09/2024 00:15

I wouldn't have started my business as an online tutor. I wouldn't have rekindled my absolute passion for teaching and would have missed out on hours of joy teaching young people. 😊

Boofoof · 20/09/2024 00:19

Wouldn't have our cats, be working from home, have the current job I love or side hustle I enjoy. On the upside though myself and my colleagues wouldn't still be dealing with the fall out of massive trauma from the immense pressures working in healthcare at the time.

I would have also have been able to be there in person with my mum as she went through cancer diagnosis and treatment.

TimeFlysWhenYoureHavingRum · 20/09/2024 00:19

Long covid wouldn't have destroyed my DP's health.

JC03745 · 20/09/2024 00:23

I would have been allowed to go to the EPU when miscarrying (not that it would have changed things)
I would have had further rounds of IVF and potentially a living baby

EmiliaRuusuvuori · 20/09/2024 00:24

I would have been able to celebrate my DM's eightieth birthday with her properly, I always thought we'd get to do it later on but she died suddenly a few months later.

Echobelly · 20/09/2024 00:26

I'm sorry for all the awful experiences people have had.

We were pretty lucky, I think the main difference is I would still be commuting 4 days a week. Maybe I would have stayed in my old job longer (I left partially as I did like to go in at least once a week but no one was coming back in at all, and I think my team were never coming back in again). If I'd done that I wouldn't have got the job I got afterwards, which was made redundant after 18 months, leading me to a new career direction.

MrsAvocet · 20/09/2024 00:28

I might have got proper treatment for an unrelated illness and not have been left with the permanent problems that led to me being forced to retire early.

girljulian · 20/09/2024 00:30

Might've actually had a living child as others have said.