A friend posted this…I agree

[Wheredowegonobodyknows]

Does anyone else? Just feels different in the world, I can’t put my finger on exactly what or how

Hardly profound is it? On a par with the "Laugh, Live, Love" shite.

Maybe the "energy of the world" (barf) has changed due to a global pandemic and a war

Covid was a mess. We were frightened out of our minds by propaganda, a constant 'death count' on the TV.. somehow afraid that even the fit and healthy were going to drop dead at any minute. By the time most had cottoned on, it was too late. People distanced themselves from family and friends. There were huge divides in society. You couldn't so much as drink a coffee on a park bench without being vilified. Let's not mention the 'unclean' who decided not to be vaccinated.. and eventually we learn that the politicians passing these rules were making a mockery of it all anyway. An absolute joke and horrifyingly shocking what 'crowd mentality' can do. Say what you like about feeling 'back to normal'.. you can't live through this and not have it affect you in some way. I certainly have less trust in the government, the media and our medical system.

Thats probably why I was unscathed. I spent about the first 6 weeks listening to the rules and then decided it was all bollocks and did what I liked.

The world is always changing, and those of us with a few years behind us have experienced tough times before. Not everyone was negatively affected by lockdown, and there have been worse things happen in the past. I haven't noticed any change in "the energy" of the world, nor anything "strange" happening.

Fucked by the feckless, or (if you are Irish) fecked by the fuckless?

Of course you can live through it and it not have an effect on you!
Not all of us crumbled.

I worked in bloody covid ICU. I was there nursing right at the bloody cold front and it had no effect on me or my children.

@Dacadactyl same, although I then spent the next year and a half furious that our freedoms were being taken away and the majority were blindly accepting of it!

Perhaps people said the same after the 2nd World war, or even maybe the people of hiroshima, I think perspective is vital

It's the same shit that's always happened - it just hasn't happened to us in a long time. Between Brexit, Covid and Ukraine it's cost us. I'm sure those that lived through both of the world wars, the depression, the plague, the Spanish flu or any civil war have felt this way.

I'm hopeful that by this time next year things will be starting to look better economically. The good news is that Rishi is an improvement to Boris and the stock market has started to stabilise. All we need now is for inflation to stop rising.

I think people are more selfish. Which is fair enough, we were told multiple of times to sacrifice so much, for other people. Lot of people complied with lockdown to protect others. Now, they are tried and want normality. But this is only available to people with money. So many people are counting pennies now.

@widowtwankywashroom you must have the emotional capacity of a potato to work in Covid ICU and not feel remotely affected by it. Congrats!

I saw the email "you have been quoted" and I thought, oh crap.... what now!

What the fuck is the "energy of the world"? Like the whole world? Every place in every country now has a different energy to the energy it had in 2019? I mean... Surely not. Times change, events unfold. It has always been this way.

@MsRosley In what way? 😩

The legacy of the lockdowns will be with many,including me,for a very long time. There will be those who were living with people where they did not get on. People forced together with no respite. There will be people like me who live alone,were unable to see their partner or any face to face with anyone for a very long time. So yes,I think things may have changed considerably.

I get it .

I actually think there is something wrong with me at times, or do I just have a greater coping mechanism. I don't know, it affected me at the time, greatly, but now, no it hasn't had a lasting effect.

@PurpleFlower1983

I'm in total agreement with what you say

Nothing strange as in woo strange going on however after a few massive world events never seen before and a financial crisis alongside a health system crisis has knocked people sideways.

Mental health in children has drastically gone downhill and there really are not enough services out there to help.

That and adults feeling the daily strain of life feeling so hard is changing peoples mood and attitudes to things massively.

It's one big shit show and the old British keep calm and carry on went out the window with the last prime minister.

Lockdown had no effect on you or your children?

I think we catastrophise a lot more than we used to do.

‘Energy of the world’? Have you discussed this with people in China, Nigeria, Argentina, Kazakstan? Or just your friends in Surrey?

No. My daughter came home from uni early, so she was pissed off about that but then she started started work as soon as she could, got furloughed and then started to work in the prison service.
My son was 12 ish when it started, he loved it, he was off school doing not a lot of work and thought it was the best thing ever
My husband already worked from home, so nothing changed there
Yes it was hard working through the pandemic for me at the time, but lasting effect no.

@Wheredowegonobodyknows What sort of something strange is happening ?

I feel that as a society we feel angry and aggrieved. We went through lockdown and usually when you have been through something crap there is some sort of reward or better time of it at the end. But we haven't had that. Things are gloomy and shit and we feel collectively pissed off about it-and that's coming out in people becoming angrier, and more insular and selfish than we were.
That my theory anyway.

If affected me at the time, but lasting effect no. If anything it served me and my family well from a financial point of view. Yes I know I am lucky in that respect.