“What Never Came Back After The Pandemic?” (30 Responses)

"Educate yourself. I did my own research" What they mean by that is "I watched a few videos on YouTube and TikTok made by some random person with no qualifications or credentials, but they sounded like they knew what they were talking about"

It also became clear that we could not depend on nor trust government in a pandemic but needed to use common sense .

I don't think it was people's mental health. It was entitled humans having to give up some of the daily "freedoms" we were used to.

Karen's and kevins

You are in fact excusing the Karens

Nope, that's still not an excuse for bad behaviour, rudeness, etc.

And they've had time to have an attitude adjustment

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May I refer you to the orange blob in the White House? "Hate" is his favorite weapon. He let racism, anger and hatred climb out from under their rocks back in 2016.

We American's have never been particularly big on common decency or the common good. I offer as evidence the struggles over public education and healthcare, both of which predate the pandemic by many decades. Entire media ecosystems profit from stimulating hate, fear, anger and division. Our society is extremely stressful and it is destroying itself from within. It's not surprising that people lash out over minor things.

Can confirm that people in the UK can also be rude entitled bellends - much worse since COVID.

Sadly, a lot of us Americans are selfish assh0les.

Probably the same without those fake precautions. Apparently the virus killed the flu virus.

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Unpopular point here..Michigan, my state, had a full lockdown which I mostly supported outside some dumb rules like not going fishing, golfing, not allowing landscaping or construction(you generally use "your" equipment every day). I supported the Governor which lost me some folks I thought were 'friends' Compared to Florida, which was wide open but with advisories about social distancing and sanitation. The difference in fatalities? Less than a percent.

That's common BS peddled by anti-science right-wingers in many countries. It is simply not true. If someone died and was found positive, the actual cause of death would be considered. Dying from respiratory complications, pneumonia or lung insufficiency? Yup, that's COVID. Dying from being hit by a bus? Not COVID. Whoever makes the distinction of "dying with covid/dying from covid" is either a gullible bell end or complicit in willingly spreading misinformation.

Even bleaker - that description matches several of the nursing homes that I used to work at. Just get the old dears up, park them in front of a TV, then leave them to p*ss themselves because two young women, one of which was always out back nursing a cigarette, can't sensibly look after twenty people. But, hey, the less spent on actual care is the more in the pockets of the home owners (which I understand is quite lucrative).

I think the patients are physically capable.

Yes, but not as fast as occured due to COVID and remote work. The area I live in is located between Los Angeles & San Francisco. It was once relatively affordable. Once COVID hit and people realized they could work remotely, those from the big cities sold their properties for a lot of money and came to our area and basically paid cash for their houses here. As a result, almost every property was selling for significantly over asking price and being purchased by transplants. Now, locals can no longer afford to by a house in our area and cost of living is nearly equal to that of Los Angeles, yet pay is not and never will be because it's not a large metropolitan area.

It's definitely faster but I hate being corrected by a machine like "unexpected item in bagging area" for example

I live in Northern, CA. At my local Safeway supermarket, there are 2 human cashiers, and SIX self-checkouts. To me, it should be the other way around.

And the start of fox news

Wrong. You just inhabit an alernate universe. We had and still have more hate and bullying now than any other time. And hate radio and all other media have blossomed into a cancer.

No such thing as a 'mental infection'.

Sadly, it greatly predates ol' Rush.

It's that it's gotten worse.

Yes. Human families and peers are much more efficient at teaching racism and hatred and intolerance than the school systems are at instilling love, kindness, and compassion.

Some people like working nights. I preferred them personally: go to work when it's quiet out, go home right as most people are going out. I also liked grocery shopping at 3am... I am a night person 100%.

And utilities staff who keep the lights on and the water flowing, and factory workers at plants that can’t shut down, and bulk delivery drivers, and freight train drivers, and pilots, and cabin crews, and hotel staff, and carers, and road workers fixing trunk roads when they are quieter, and fuel station staff providing fuel for the vehicles doing the night work, and all of the armed forces…….

It’s called shift work. 😉

Some of us prefer to do night work.

I worked nights all through the pandemic. The US Postal Service kept going. And yes I got COVID.

Thank you from someone who works in retail

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THIS

And why do day shift people deserve better accessibility to things than night shift people?

This. And I say this as someone who works a job that can't be done remotely. Many of the return to office mandates for people who can work from home are just about control. Some people at my workplace can do their job from home but my company still decided everyone had to come back during omicron variant and then upper management was all surprised when people got it.