To think many people are still dealing with the trauma of COVID, but we just don’t talk about it?

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It feels like everyone wants to act as if life has completely gone back to normal, but I don’t think that’s true for a lot of people. The pandemic disrupted lives in ways we still haven’t fully processed - whether it’s grief, anxiety, financial struggles, or just a lingering sense of uncertainty.

I see people who still struggle with social anxiety, who haven’t fully recovered financially, or who feel like they lost years of their lives. But because everything has “moved on,” there’s no space to acknowledge it anymore.

AIBU to think that COVID left a lasting impact on people’s mental health and general outlook on life, even if no one really talks about it?

@Lilifer it was shared on facebook by somebody very staunchly anti lockdown. I expect it’s been copied and pasted (and in some places, censored) all over the internet, not sure what the original source is. I’m sharing it before it is memory-holed.

'This wasn’t just incompetence. This was narcissistic, state-sanctioned abuse. It was calculated. It was deliberate. It was control - and it was murder. Genocide.'

You think this was spot on? Genocide??

The pp has quoted from a deluded nutcase by the sounds of it.

Times are different. In previous pandemics people didn't move around so much - today people are travelling huge distances on a daily basis just to go to work and huge numbers of people are flying between countries. In previous pandemics, we didn't have the internet and people couldn't "work from home", so life still carried on pretty much as normal for most people. Those in "infected areas" stayed in their area and pretty much mingled as normal as they'd already been infected. Those outside infected areas, stayed away from them as far as possible. It was all a lot easier to keep people separate in those days as most people didn't stray far from their home town/village.

Yes, obviously times are different. This isn't a point about whether we should've locked down, btw, only that it was wrong to say lockdown has always been the default response to a pandemic, as has been claimed a couple of times on this thread.

Lockdown in fact is a policy that arose in response to a set of circumstances in 2020-1 that had never existed before, and we don't know if they'll exist again in the next pandemic.