Covid - about 5 years ago. Does it seem like 5 years?

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So it was all happening about 5 years ago. The signs were about to come through from Italy.

It doesn't seem like 5 years ago. But maybe for some people, it does.

It seems a bit more recent - 5 years seems like a long time.

But then again, so much has happened since then.

Doesn’t seem like 5 years ago at all. Still feels very recent to me.

It feels a strange mix of really recent and also a million years ago! It did odd things to the passage of time!

this!

A lifetime ago, but also, just the other day....

It feels like something I dreamt. It's so fucking weird.

Most surreal time ever. Sometimes it seems like a very long fever dream. The book "The Year the World Went Mad" is very much worth a read.

Covid does seem a really weird time paradox - you're right that it does not seem like five years ago at all. But then I think back to Jan 2020 and what we were up to then - my DS wasn't even two (he's now nearly seven) and DD was three (now 8.5) and hadn't even started school and it feels like a lifetime ago.

I think part of it is because of what it entailed - lockdowns, etc so life seemed the same for a long time.

doesn't feel like 5 years to me. I had post Covid pneumonia and a blood clot recently 😞

Yes, this.

It's a bit 'other worldy', isn't it? Like you know it happened, how we were all huddled up in our homes, the real fear, the toilet rolls, the getting groceries delivered, working from home - but it feels surreal?

I can't believe I haven't worked from an office in nearly 5 years.

It doesn't seem like 5 years at all. Covid definitely done something to time. I don't know how to explain its went quickly and yet slowly also. Maybe because we were getting information flung at us daily and then everything that's went on since. I still can't believe that we went through a world wide pandemic.

Edited to add - agree with what @Unicornsandprincesses said that's how I feel about it.

Did anybody else keep that letter from Boris carefully as an historical document? I actually have 4 sealed letters. One for each of my DC. I'm sure they'll never want them, but...

It also feels very 'before and after covid' a defining point in time, recent but far away!! 😂 its crazy and fascinating that history won't be able to describe it.

Feels like two years ago. I remember watching it in December as I'm Biologist ( former life ) with interest and being agog in late Feb when people on TV was saying it would never come here, dispite it being pretty global by then. Just glad that no one close to me died but it fucked my kids education. I'm still interested from a scientific POV but I wish it hadn't have happened and I try not look back at that time. I wasn't ever scared of covid. Society and how the pitchforks and misinformation came out scared me immensely. Very much a protect your own interests and finger pointing. I will never run out of loo roll again 😆

I remember being called a conspiracy theorist by my whole family when I said it was clear it was a lab leak from the absolute panic of governments and how the world shut down !

@Matildatoldsuchdreadfullies yes I bought a nice storage box and have kept everything. I kept a daily journal through those times.

Does anyone else feel like the uncle from only fools... during covid times 🤣

It does seem both a really long time ago and no time at all, as someone said. I think it did something to all of our perceptions of time.

More Fraser from Dad's Army. "We're doomed."

I have actually spent my entire life terrified of a pandemic (I blame a BBC TV kids show - The Bells of Astercote), so in the end COVID didn't seem too bad.

Five years seems about right to me, but I'm often thinking about it and counting back the years since then. I had a 2yo in 2020 and my 2nd dc was 2 last year, so I'm often thinking about the times I had with dc1 compared to dc2. I spent a lot of the lockdowns getting out on walks as much as possible, so we weren't huddled and isolated in our homes luckily - dc1 is pretty unscathed by the experience and was baffled when I told her recently that it was once against the law to go to a playground!

It was less than 3.5 years ago that it ended though wasn't it? It was such a weird time it seems impossible to fit it in to normal timelines in my mind and I have to think about what age my children were to work it out.

Yes. I've never actually read it as I was already several steps ahead of him. Still got my brexit vote leaflet too. Why is my house so messy......

My DS is 5 in the morning,the last 5 years has gone really fast for us but covid seems so long ago,it was such a tough time,I also feel like his baby stages are clouded with everything covid.

It seems like far longer to me. What a crazy time it was. Although our kids often talk about 2020 lockdowns with fondness. They’ve chosen to remember all the evenings in the garden and family time rather than the frustrating and boring bits…

This. I've almost forgotten it ever happened, but it also feels really recent. Weird stretchy time.

For me it feels like one of those distant memory things from the past. Covid of 2020’s seems very much like the blackouts of the 1970’s. Grim and horrible at time but everything has moved on.

Totally baffling. And even more baffling that councils apparently had the budget to go out and tape them all off!

I agree with the comments about what it did to time as well. Time seems to go so quickly now. It can't just be because I am getting older because my 20 something ds feels it too.