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).

@RachC2021

You missed “last year”. And no they didn’t miss more than six months then. They didn’t even miss six months.

So what are we supposed to forget about time missed in 2019? Yes including bubbles bursting etc most kids have missed more than 6 months, it dosent matter if that's over 1 or 2 years it's still a huge amount of lost learning.

I know in reality it has been 19 months, but my mum was 76 when she died in March 2020, she would have been 78 now and we are coming up to the 2nd Christmas without her so in my head it's 2 years.

I know people say my baby ( now toddler) is a lockdown baby, but there were no restrictions then - Jan 2020. I had a terrible cough when she was born 🤣 Having had Covid since, I can be sure it wasn't it at the time.

It's a strange thing to get worked up about. I don't think most people are this literal minded and pedantic in real life are they? 🤔

When I say / hear "almost 2 years", I think of it in the sense of restrictions being in place for a lot of 2020 and all of 2021 so far. 2 summer holidays, potentially 2 Christmas' etc. I don't think in terms of exact months 😂

It's closer to 18 months than two years - but people don't round down, they round up to bang on indignantly and enlarge their being inconvenienced. It's a once in a hundred years' pandemic. Disruptions to normal life are part of the deal.

You'd have to hope, on the rare days children attend school, they are learning the difference between 19 and 24, so that they don't rock up to shops in the future and demand to pay 19 quid when the price is 24, as it's close enough, and accuse the shopkeeper of being a pedant.

No time was missed in 2019, the pandemic restrictions (including school closures) started in 2020.

@RachC2021 i understand, i guess some people like to exaggerate it or say it because it feels like 2 years of restrictions or 6 months of misses school (during the first lockdown). The fact remains that it wasn't. Using that narrative i'd say i feel like a millionaire, unfortunately that wouldn't make it true 🤣🤣

@milkyaqua

It's closer to 18 months than two years - but people don't round down, they round up to bang on indignantly and enlarge their being inconvenienced. It's a once in a hundred years' pandemic. Disruptions to normal life are part of the deal.

You'd have to hope, on the rare days children attend school, they are learning the difference between 19 and 24, so that they don't rock up to shops in the future and demand to pay 19 quid when the price is 24, as it's close enough, and accuse the shopkeeper of being a pedant.

Hmm, this feels like the kind of minimising of people’s experiences that really gets people upset when it’s in the other direction.

To be clear - I don’t agree with minimising either impacts of restrictions or impacts of covid itself.

By late March 22, the narrative will be that we are three years into the pandemic.

I remember seeing it in jan/feb just small new articles to start with and me and DH was like this is going to be life changing.

It feel like a lifetime ago those conversations, and me ringing my team after the first government announcement saying don’t come into the office tomorrow after BCP was invoked and reassuring them it was just for a couple of weeks - mind blowing to think how the world has changed in such a short space of time

@Plumbear2

CuckooCall. For school kids and teens this is their 3rd year of schools being effected. Teachers and staff still have to isolate due to covid, some schools still have to send classes home due to not enough teachers. Maybe not 2 years for you but in the school environment this is the start of the third effected covid year.

The person posting was NOT talking about school. She was talking about going into the 3rd year of the pandemic. And don't lecture me on school kids. I have two school kids and I still don't believe that we should be referring to the pandemic as having lasted three years when it's not even been two regardless of how many school years have been disrupted. Here are all the eye rolls in the world for you 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

No-one should have to just grin and bear it.

Who said people 'have to grin and bear it'? It is a thread about time, and exaggeration, and drama. People pointing out facts have been called pedants! Soz, if my style 'upsets' you.

Wrong quote...

CuckooCall .I don't care how many kids you have I'm entitled to an opinion. Yes schools are not ensuring their third year of bring effected by covid.

My son has spent years 7,8 and startof 9 affected by covid. That is a fact.

YANBU, however some of us will say things like “It’s been two years since we had a proper meal out!”, simply because we went out for Christmas 2019 and (naturally for us) didn’t go out in Jan-Feb, and by March people were starting to worry… hence the two years.

@Mybalconyiscracking

Genuinely, WHO CARES?

Agree. It’s an odd thing to worry about.

People know it’s just easy

Well it's 2 years if you think we've been in a pandemic for 2020 and 2021.

Why do you really care?

I don't talk about it much, just get on with it all as best I can, but it's certainly impacted on the best part of 2 different years.
Most of 2020 and all of 2021 so far.

@Mybalconyiscracking

Genuinely, WHO CARES?

Right? Such a weird thing to get tied up on knots about

I find it irritating for my own reason, which is that my DP does this with everything. He has a cough that lasts three weeks - 'I had that cough for A MONTH'. He has been waiting a few days for someone to get back to him - 'it's been TWO WEEKS since I asked for x, y or z'. It does my head in!!

People talk in terms of how they feel, not mathematically. They feel like restrictions have gone on for 2 years. Also, it is nearly 2 years since reports started in the UK of a strange illness in Wuhan, albeit it took the Chinese until December to admit to it.