To find the early COVID era nostalgic?

[Acco]

I’m mostly talking about the pre-lockdown and lockdown 1 era mostly but just 2020 in general to a lesser extent (but not 2021, I still hate it and it doesn’t seem that long ago). I haven’t thought about COVID for ages but I was taking about the toilet roll hysteria with my in laws tonight and then I saw a TikTok throwback to all the 2020 trends and sounds and it gave me a warm feeling inside. It’s an era I’d never want back but I remember the lovely sunny days in the garden in April and May 2020.
Anybody else feel this?

Meanwhile people were dying, key workers like myself were working ourselves into the ground, many people's mental health was massively suffering. But yay - time in the garden for you 🙄

Perfectly put, the privileged ignore the struggling of others @Acco glad you thought it was fun, sadly many didn't, but don't let that bother your little head

On an absolutely personal point of view, I loved the first couple of months of lockdown. I am not in the UK and so the restrictions were different and didn't last as long but, in our house, it was like being on the world's weirdest holiday. We hiked, we ran, we swam, we made up games, we turned one of our tables into a competitive jigsaw table, we cooked huge family meals, we laughed a LOT. But I was also aware that we were living in a bubble and was very appreciative of that time we got as a family that we wouldn't normally have had. And, crucially, my children were all old enough, after the first week or two, to organize their own educations.

I was also very aware that most people were not anywhere near as lucky and the extent of the death toll so it was, and still is, an uncomfortable feeling.

And somehow, the thread TOTALLY moved on and I now look like a twat. Rightfully so. Sorry!

Oh I know they were busy. Just that there were less sirens, which I assumed was because there was no traffic on the road for them to 'move out of the way'

Thank you for saying that.

For some of us life will never be the same again, but hey some people had a nice time it seems.

I have rarely worked so hard or felt so deeply stressed. My colleagues and team members were visibly falling apart and turning into different people. Some people treating it as a fun lark just made the awful experiences of others even more starkly terrible.

My sister laboured alone in hospital for days before her husband was allowed in to meet his son. She has PTSD and no longer wants any more kids. She is traumatised.

My recently bereaved grandmother was alone for months. She was traumatised and felt unsafe leaving the house until recently. She’ll never get on a plane again, and we don’t live in the same country.

A close work contact went quiet for several months. When he got back in touch he explained that he’d been so busy because his entire team had died or had spouses die (not UK).

This is so fucking tasteless.

Same 🙈

Don't hold back

Livid rn

You don't have to do anything social now. Get a 100% remote job and decline social invitations.

The problem with lockdown was that people who need social interaction couldn't have it.

The other problem with lockdown is the death toll from Covid.

This really is tasteless to say the least, ffs OP, think b4 you speak

I'm so sorry.

The poster talking of laughs and fun is ignorant to what many went through. Privileged individual no awareness of others and their struggle and loss.

Acco actually said "people appear" to have dreadful times. There's something in that...as if she doesn't believe it...but again, .i think if you are rich enough, that's possible, having no brain connection about how food appears in a shop.

peopleversuswork I think lockdown changed me so much, I just think someone who might genuinely be that dumb is as hopeless as someone who is malicious.

Why is this even in AIBU? There is a covid section.

Yes. Both the use of ‘sorry to hear’ and ‘people appear to have..’ suggest a certain level of remove which I just find incredible really.

But to play devils advocate being rich is not the only factor in which this might have benefitted a person.

It benefitted my son with pre-existing mental health issues because it normalised his experience of being away from school

It benefitted my mother who was widowed a decade earlier who now has a really good/ lasting relationship with neighbours who barely spoke to each other before but learnt to look out for one another.

The OP is tone deaf to say the least but I still think it is possible to talk about positive outcomes of awful times.

Because, as I said earlier, history is made up of human experience and not every experience was the same.

@Acco
Wait until something comes along and wipes that smugness away. Tic toc videos and warm feelings, wow, empathy bypass you have.

A colleague came down with covid and was in hospital on breathing apparatus of some type.

I came down with covid myself, struggling to breathe in my home alone and terrified that if I died my cat would starve before anyone realised I was dead. I ran out of food with no one to go shopping for me and unable to order food online because I need to read labels to cope with an allergy. I literally did not eat for two days.

These are just two of the people affected by covid. Others died.

But all that suffering was worth it because it prompted you to realise some stuff that you could have realised anyway if you had any self-awareness.

Yes. Even if you didn’t know anyone who died there were people dying all around us, right across the world. You would have to be able to block it all out to feel nostalgic about it.

@diamondsareforever

Again, I'm trying to be reasonable despite my fury.

Why can't you do at least some of those things now? Why can't your children read to one another and have sleepovers in one another's bedrooms? Maybe you wouldn't want to do that on a school night, but there are weekends, and the school holidays are very long. Even in the worst places, you can find somewhere for your children to ride bikes. Mine somehow managed to learn to ride bikes long before lockdown despite us living in the centre of a city. Why can't you watch films together at the weekend, if that's what you want to do?

All of those choices are available to you without there having to be a lockdown.

Nope, working my backside off covering sick colleagues, while trying to avoid it myself as none of us were able to work from home or enjoy the benefits of furlough. Without the complications of being in people facing role.

if I didn’t work I didn’t get paid.

The lack of face to face healthcare nearly killed one of my parents. GP was scared of covid that they relied on their opinion on the phone and thought nothing was wrong. What happened afterwards made me realise that covid cases were only the start of the potential deaths.

Yes please remove this thread.

I remember reading about a care home in Italy which police discovered had been abandoned by the carers who left the elderly to die alone. Some of those elderly folks died not of covid but of starvation.

And yet there we were, slapping DNRs on healthy young people, some para Olympians because they had LDs, but we clapped at the 80+ year olds leaving the hospitals. I was terrified for my 22 year old DD, who has LDs, but works. It didn't matter the life the person was leading, LD on the file and DNR accompanied it, in some places. We were told that children's medical care wouldn't be compromised, but it was, sometimes resulting in death. My youngest GC has irreparable hearing loss because of Covid. I know children who've lost the window of speech. I don't know any taxi drivers who are single who have fully recovered, income wise. It closed many businesses for good. Women and children were threatened by the Police. Widen your thinking.