It has not been 2 years

[maddening]

Aibu to find that people are naturally over exaggerating the length of pandemic. I noticed in March that there was a lot of reference to "the last 18 months" when obviously it had only been 12-13 at most, and now people seem to refer to "the last 2 years" when it has been been 16 months - we aren't even at 18 months yet. I know it probably feels that long but aibu to think that people are often skewing the Time frames of the pandemic?

Over exaggerating? Not just exaggerating?

My toddler was born the week we went into lockdown, in a hospital where the cleaning cupboard at the end of the labour ward was being quietly turned into an isolation room and the anaesthetists in the delivery room were nervously joking about how they'd been told to shave off their beards so their PPE would fit.

The rules about visiting were changing by the hour, and I was VERY lucky to have DH visit as normal for the week I was in. None of my family were able to visit me in hospital, and none of them met my miracle baby other than through a window for the first twelve weeks.

We came home to eerily empty roads. DH was so nervous he forgot to put his headlights on for the six mile journey, and we passed no cars to flash us.

I stripped the whole new family naked at the door and insisted we shower in Hibiscrub and boil wash our clothes after a week in hospital, crying as I fed my naked baby who I truly believed was being born into the end of the world.

It's been sixteen months.

It's also been my baby's whole life.

@Figgygal

I’m with you op It started impacting in the UK in feb March last year so to now17/18 months certainly not two years Unless you mean it’s impacted over 2 years I.e 2020 and 2021

Is it peoples ways of justifying why they’re so fed up about it? over exaggerating how long it’s been? It feels like bloody forever

It started impacting YOU in the U.K. in feb/March.

Other people were impacted long before - people who had to be sent home early from overseas secondments because their governments could see what was happening, the company I work for in the U.K. was majorly affected from mid January once the restrictions came into play in China for Chinese New Year.

So for some people it has been longer than others, so they will count longer.

*Lilyargin

Over exaggerating? Not just exaggerating?*

Whichever works for you Lily

Counting from Jan/Feb or feb/March is not that different though really, which is why I went from Feb in my op as it was a mid point.

It was definitely in the news as a significant & growing concern in February 2020. We were moving house & I was really worried we weren't going to get sorted before the inevitable lockdown happened. We moved end of February & got the carpets down about 10 days later. We really struggled to get white goods etc because of panic buying.

"January - July 2021 is not “nearly all of 2021.” It is six months."

Think this depends on where you are. Am in Scotland so still got restrictions so 7 months and counting so far this year and certainly not really expecting to be restriction free at any point this year. Less restrictions than we have had, yes, but not exactly normal life either.

I got covid in jan 2020. That's 18 months by my count. To be fair I've probably been saying 18 months for about 6 weeks now