Two years is 24 months?

[beentoldcomputersaysno]

It seems for weeks now some posters refer to restrictions first brought in in March last year as going on for two years. Even now, that's almost half a year out. I don't think I've seen this the other way round (i.e. restrictions first brought in a year ago).

Restrictions were brought in 18 months ago (okay 20, but nobody says ‘20 months’).

I do say Covid started almost 2 years ago or ‘we’ve been in this for 2 years’. It kicked off end of December, reached Europe in January. It took a couple of months to develop but we’re 22 months off the start line so it’s not unreasonable for people to use the term 2 years already.

People use it in relation to UK restrictions which were 19 months ago.

@beentoldcomputersaysno

People use it in relation to UK restrictions which were 19 months ago.

Yeah that’s a bit out. But give it another month and it will be closer to 2 years than to 1 year. ‘One year and a half’ can be a bit of a mouthful.

Although people might be thinking in calendar years as well. By which we’ve been in restrictions for the most part of 2 years.

March-December 2020, that’s almost 10 months out of 12.
January-now 2021, which again is 10 months out of 12 and counting.

People are either just rounding up from 19 months, or they’re thinking “it was almost all of 2020, and we’re now almost through 2021, so 2 years.”

Does it matter?

Ha that always bugs me too.

As well as when people talk about not having gone to a restaurants etc in two years when restrictions have prohibited this for what, 9 months total?

I can see why people feel that it's been 2 years. Nearly the whole of 2020 affected and now nearly the whole of 2021 affected too.

It feels like it’s been going on FOREVER so actually it seems perfectly normal to me that people are rounding up. I am often surprised if I stop and think that at the start of last year life was still normal, or that so far only one Christmas has been impacted. It really feels like much longer.

@beentoldcomputersaysno

It seems for weeks now some posters refer to restrictions first brought in in March last year as going on for two years. Even now, that's almost half a year out. I don't think I've seen this the other way round (i.e. restrictions first brought in a year ago).

It's been bugging me, too. It's not 'the better part of two years' as I've read, and other weird claims. I was counting the months on my fingers last night when I couldn't sleep as it just didn't make any sense. Covid might well have been rumbling around for a few months beforehand, but March 2020 was when most governments worldwide began bringing in restrictions.

I usually say/think 2 years.
Covid-19 = 2019
It’s almost the end of 2021 now 🤷‍♀️

It is nearly 2 years. We weren't restricted until March 2020 but covid came about at the end of December 2019 I believe. I remember Dp watching the news around New Year's Eve and saying how serious this could - I just laughed it off - I now look back and think wtaf!

I personally think it was spreading earlier than what's been documented in the U.K. I was very ill December 2019. My children were very ill jan 2020! One of their classmates had traveled to a problem country in late 2019. When my kids were ill I remember saying I had never experienced anything like this as a parent before!

It wasn't declared a global pandemic until March 11, 2020.

If someone on here describes their child as 20 months old they get “omg just say 2”. Most people I’ve seen say “nearly 2 years”. Because it’s been nearly 2 years.

As well as when people talk about not having gone to a restaurants etc in two years when restrictions have prohibited this for what, 9 months total?

You know that just because politicians say you can do this, doesn't mean it's that good an idea?

It will be two years in March 2021.

Shit, 2022! March 2022.

@RobinPenguins

If someone on here describes their child as 20 months old they get “omg just say 2”. Most people I’ve seen say “nearly 2 years”. Because it’s been nearly 2 years.

I agree. It's been on my radar since Jan 2020, and it's November next week. Aka almost 2 years.

Two years is 24 months. Not what feels like two years, or what is only vaguely 'close' to two years, as in further away from one year.

@milkyaqua

Two years is 24 months. Not what feels like two years, or what is only vaguely 'close' to two years, as in further away from one year.

The first lockdown in China was Jan 2020. This is almost 2 years ago. Some people think more globally than others.

24 months is indeed two years tho, so have a point 🤷🏻‍♀️

We are still a fair way from January, if you were to go by that measure.

@milkyaqua

We are still a fair way from January, if you were to go by that measure.

Yes, just a few short weeks.

Fuck me! January is 10 weeks away, and Wuhan didn't lock down until the 23rd January.

@milkyaqua

Fuck me! January is 10 weeks away, and Wuhan didn't lock down until the 23rd January.

Correct.

Well 2 full calendar years have been fucked, 2020 was a write off basically, February was when things were getting shite (globally) and 2021 has had this cloud of dread hanging over it and we are near the end of it now. “Will there be another lockdown, will Christmas be cancelled” etc. So I totally get why people say 2 years.

Well it is nearly two ,years ,it started in Wuhan in 2019 hence COVID-19 ,I started hearing about it in the January and February of 2020 ,it may have been in the UK longer who knows ?
It feels a lot longer than two years tbh.

It does feel like longer than 19 months, but in July (freedom day) some people were saying restrictions have been in place almost 2 years. I've just never seen it rounded down.