Life after lockdown

[delisane]

Anyone else feel meh after the pandemic and lockdowns? I'm not sad or depressed. I just feel like nothing matters anymore. I am much more authentic and I'll say what's on my mind.

Before lockdown I used to care so much about things but I don't stress as much now.

It's made me kind of hard in a way. I used to be so soft but I was hurt during lockdown like everyone else.

I have twins and we couldn't afford childcare so I cared for them solo throughout lockdown while my husband worked. I saw people slam doors in each other's faces due to the very legitimate fear of covid.

I’m ok (happy etc) but I’m annoyed sensible voices weren’t heard at the time and it’s only now people are able to hear the greater damage to women and children, and damage generally

I know why as I recall how people reacted, what was said, I hope they realise it

The lockdowns were an unnecessary farce so I don't blame you.

@QueenBodicea

"For me, I hate the endless Teams calls we have now whereas pre-covid we would have met in person, usually a much more enjoyable experience"

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I know what you mean. I often have days WFH where I have teams calls after teams call and can spend the entire day never speaking to a real person- it's lonely, not good for your social skills and makes for a more introverted isolated experience.

Also given our calendar availability is open for all to see I noticed a trend for some people to feel they have to book up every available slot in their calendar to look busy.

This means there is less time to actually do the actual work generated from these teams meetings which hits productivity. Also if you want to speak to someone you first need to email them to schedule a call which might be a week away. Whereas pre COVID you could simply walk across to their desk or failing that just call them.

Work wise everything now seems to take longer, is less efficient and less dynamic.

As with most things in life there were definitely Winners and Losers from the COVID pandemic

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And sadly the losers as often is the case were predominantly the poorer, women, young people and children.

It’s an absolutely spot on point.

The use of the term selfish is seldom very helpful in the context of covid and lockdown policy. A better way of putting it is that all of the possible responses to covid involved putting the interests of some people above others.

I love the fact that I can now work from home and it’s not a big ‘thing’. It’s just accepted as the norm. I work on a massive site divided into loads of smaller offices. I was in our office for training a couple of weeks ago and it was only me and 3 others, the office holds about 100 people 😆

It made no appreciable difference to me.

I'm still angrier and generally more emotional about Brexit than lockdown.

I don’t really feel any different. But then I worked throughout lockdown so didn’t experience it in quite the same way as those who had to stay at home.

I do feel that it has negatively affected my teens and their social development though. Also dd1 had a really nasty and long lasting reaction to one of her covid jabs which she is only really coming out the other side of now a year and a half later.

I'm far more cynical than I was pre-covid. I never really had much faith in the government, so no loss there. But watching the WHO performance, where they went to China and insisted that there was no virus leak, it really did happen spontaneously in spitting distance, was a steep learning curve.

I don’t feel different in any way. It happened, I’m over it 🤷‍♀️

I'm glad the deaths weren't much much worse, as I believe they would have been without lockdown.

I love history and was very interested how our Pandemic compared with 1918/20 and the Plague outbreaks. The advice to keep separate from each other as much as possible is still the best, possibly only, advice.

Others will vehemently disagree, but we'll never know what would have happened without lockdown

I don't think everyone was hurt during lockdown. I disagree with this strange notion that the country has PTSD because they had to stay in a bit and wear a mask.

NHS staff, carers, people who couldn't access vital services, yes, and of course those who lost loved ones and who still suffer from long COVID - those people I'd imagine are actually traumatised.

I think this is also true.
A lot of media hype and spin has meant that some people have convinced themselves that it was all awful and they need therapy because they had to work from home for a few months.
For SOME people it was really, really crap. Loved ones were lost, life saving treatments were refused etc.
I was a ‘front line’ keyworker ( hate this rhetoric by the way). I worked throughout, had young children to homeschool and elderly relatives (one whom died alone) to deal with.
I still think it’s time to stop blaming everything on lockdown. I’m seeing kids in yrR now who would have been babes in arms, we’re still blaming their poor speech and language on covid . Why?
I’d intrigued to know for how long WW2 was allowed as an excuse for not trying to be the best we can.

I agree. I'm not in the UK, but everyone I know was okay about lockdown and have just carried on as normal afterwards.

I get that some people were affected by it, but to insist that everyone must be suffering is just nonsense.

I was made redundant from my ideal job due to the pandemic and took another unrelated job to get by. I have struggled to pick my career back up (roles are scarce and have hundreds of applicants per vacancy) and I’m not sure it will ever recover. It’s had a huge impact on my self esteem, not to mention finances.

I did lose a grandparent early on to covid and am clinically vulnerable myself so I supported lockdowns when they happened though.

I lost my dad in October 2020. He was in hospital and I couldn't see him. Then he got moved to a residential home and I couldn't see him. He rang me telling me he missed his little girl (my DD). I said I was sorry but hoped he understood why and he said he loved me. He had a heart attack 3 days later and died. My former best friend became obsessed with blaming me for lockdowns and sending me videos all the time then ghosted me. We were friends for 38 years. So yeah lockdown affected me but I don't go on and on about it. I think I have less patience for crap people now and it actually made me want to see people more but people seem flakier now