What has been the worst thing about the Covid lockdown for you personally?

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I know that some people have suffered way more than others during this pandemic, but what is the worst thing you personally have suffered or lost? 😔

For me, I am lucky - the one thing I have missed out on is completing my black belt grading in kickboxing 🥊 as it has been put back a number of times as the restrictions have been relaxed and then intensified again 🙄 but once all the restrictions have been lifted completely, I can go for it then - and of course the guy I’m competing against to get my black belt is also frustrated as he’s going for a new belt grading also, with the winner actually getting their new belt ranking! 🥋

So yeah, what has been your greatest loss or frustration during the pandemic lockdown and restrictions? 🤷🏼‍♀️ Thank you.

JennyDunne2 · Accepted Answer

It was really only the end of lockdown which I found difficult. Because I was a little younger than most of my friends, when the vaccine started being rolled out a lot of them got it almost 2 months before I did (it was only people over 25 at the time), meaning when they where finally about to meet up in cafes/ bars/ etc, I was the most isolated I'd ever been, because at least over lockdown proper people still messaged you. This included my boyfriend whom I'd only started dating like a week proper before lockdown hit, and that I'd only been able to meet like 3 times the whole of lockdown, so I really had no idea if we would stay together or not. We spoke everyday during lockdown but June/ July I hardly heard from him so I was pretty near just righting it off.
At the same time, my Mom who is high risk and why I had been so carful isolating over lockdown and also why I'd moved back home coz carers where a problem, decided she couldn't be bothered taking the vaccine. Not didn't believe in or didn't trust it, could be bothered. SO that lead to a big argument and me moving out pretty shortly after. Except when I had to move back after my almost 20 year old cat took a stroke, and I needed to tend to her for 3 days until she past.

Actual lockdown was basically just watching moves and playing video games without feeling guilty about it. But those couple of weeks at the start of August where I had no home, no job or money, and no friends and the only constant thing in my life just dies where really hard and I'm not sure I've fully recovered. Its no where near the worst things that have happened to someone over lockdown, but the worst thing for me was it really changed how I think about the world.
I always though of people as being pretty good and well meaning. Like people might be dicks sometimes but they want to be good. But now I think of people as being fundamentally selfish and self absorbed. Not that people are mean, but they're ignorant, and they don't choose not to be ignorant, they don't care as long as their happy. We're just alone, and people will come into are lives but they're temporary. We can love them but they'll leave. I hate thinking like this but I can't think differently any more

Prettygurl12 · Accepted Answer

Nothing for myself but my husband's mental health crashed.

I didn't lose my job. I got paid hazard pay (double time). Nothing changed for me. I continued to get 4.0s in school (I'm getting my masters online).

But he had to switch to doing law school online. He never saw any of his friends. It got to a point that in December 2020 he might not graduate.

I learned that when I wasn't home he didn't get out of bed. He didn't attend class. He didn't turn in assignments. He didn't clean up after himself.

So... when I found that out there was a time where I may as well have been physically dragging his ass across the finish line.

I policed in Atlanta, Georgia throughout 2020. Through the riots. Through the pandemic. Through the reports of cops being jumped on calls. I kept my shit tight. Business as usual. But my husband suffered a lot. In addition to having to move online for education he was extra scared for me.

Everything fell on me. The housework. The money. My husband's schooling. Hell - I basically went to law school for a bit because I was on top of him to get his stuff done. I had to get him into counseling. One time he called me in a panic and I picked him up off the side of the road in my cruiser and brought him lights and sirens to the psychiatrist.

And he didn't want anyone in our family to know so I didn't say anything. I just did what needed to be done. His parents visited us a couple times and made remarks about how the dishwasher hadn't been unloaded or how the house hadn't been vacuumed and how "it's not that hard to clean for an hour every night that you get home" and I kept my mouth shut because my husband didn't want his parents to know that their son was drowning and I was keeping him alive. I worked 12+ hour days and then came home and made dinner and made sure my husband did his schoolwork and then I did my schoolwork and I honestly couldn't care less when the apartment had last been vacuumed 😂

That was ROUGH. I as a singular person was fine, but my very best friend was not and I about ran myself ragged keeping us going lol

Slartybartfast · Accepted Answer

The cult of Trump prolonging it and deliberately spreading the virus by being idiots.

It's not a democrat hoax like Trump said.

It wasn't gone last Easter like Trump said.

Its not treated by injecting detergent or hydroxychloroquine like Trump said.

I work at a hospital and we are expanding the morgue to handle the victims of anti vax propaganda. Rupert Murdoch has a lot to answer for, not just January sixth..

The gop is killing off it's base and other Americans because of it's opposition to common sense and science.

FriendlyDrugDealer · Accepted Answer

Well, I never stopped working because I was in healthcare. The lockdown took away my ability to further my training in grappling (I learned wrestling from a friend but I wanted to learn BJJ), it sucked but it’s life, couldn’t see my extended family who are older or young to avoid the spread, etc.

The worst is dealing with less family gatherings but we got through it

TrueConfection · Answer

Seeing babies and small children not allowed to interact normally. It will have a major impact on their generation.

All those babies that can't see faces, all those kindergartners who never sat at a lunch table with peers, all those 6 year olds with speech delays that can't see mouths moving or hear sounds clearly, all those 8 and 10 year olds who used to have birthday parties and playdates see those things as non existent and long long long ago.

It's heartbreaking to hear a child say they are sad because they can't visit Grandma anymore because, "Grandma is afraid I'll make her sick."

jennifer_bloom · Answer

When lockdowns first happened I was sad that I was not able to work cause I don’t get along with my family so I loved being able to leave the house for 8 hours a day and through work I met guys I was interested in and made a small group of friends. I also had money to buy luxuries like lattes or Chicken Caesar Salad or Shrimp Cocktail meals etc… My self esteem took a dive when I lost my job due to lockdowns because I felt like I was no longer contributing to society, I was also sad I had no way of finding boyfriends when I did not have a job but now the only thing that bothers me is how high many people have become poor because of the pandemic. My dad makes good money and we have real estate to fall back on if he loses his job, and I’m working on my career as an author so I will hopefully not need any money from them at all once my books are sold.

Starla1234 · Answer

Being trapped and not being able to go out and make some friends or date/meet people. Especially when your friends have begun to move on without you, it’s quite lonely. Also not being able to go out and have some fun enjoying the freedom after High school.

Zerokoool · Answer

I've done a lot of work the last few years toward improving my confidence, self respect, and self love... honestly the worst part of COVID for me was that people stopped going out and socializing in public just as I gained the confidence to start 😑😂

BeMuse · Answer

Watching the idiots actually comply with them and do things that are clearly against science and their own self interest just because some authoritarian that rigged an election told them to. There are way to many dumb people. A bunch of muppets, the lot of you.

FinalFantasyBro · Answer

I hate how bored I have gotten, I am only just stuck in the house with my family I really love my family but sometimes I wish I could expand in my own life hopefully next year at least become a new fresh experience. I really want to get my own driver license and hopefully get a job.

Cowboy6666 · Answer

Lost my job with better earnings which I got few months before the lockdown :/Lost touch with a girl working in same office Anyways Are you martial artist?

Anonymous · Answer

I already have a short temper and don't like being told what to do, and with these fucking mask Nazis, it's even worse now.
I don't even go for walks outside my block anymore because I'm sick and tired of mask pussies treating me like I'm some kind of fucking leper, putting their masks on everytime I walk by.

AviatorTom · Answer

My grown kids each live hundreds of miles away, and travel fo see them gas been difficult, if not impossible. Seeing them online is okay but not the same as in person.

ShaTTeredMasterpeace · Answer

I completely lost my routine when gyms shut down. And gained back some weight which only made me even more depressed.

Wester1967 · Answer

Found out my family are narcissists. Always were and i never realized it. Actually turned out to be a good thing. But it was pretty traumatic when I connected all the dots.

Honesttguy · Answer

When gum close lost some gains, and at beggining moving new city troubled finding job so took a hot financially but thats about it.

exitseven · Answer

I really feel brain dead. It had been almost two years of just watching TV and doing chores around th e house.

anon171999 · Answer

The only way I've been impacted by lock downs has been not having access to the library.

lancecantee · Answer

Just before the pandemic, I moved across the country to a new city. I have few friends here plus I'm very far from family and close friends. This is extremely lonely.

Gwenhwyfar · Answer

Not being able to travel The best thing is working from home

FunkyMonkee · Answer

The stupidity, the lies, the deaths cased by those lying about and the fact that Fauci helped create it!!

honeylover21 · Answer

Isolation , mental fog , anxiety and it's all depression 😆🤨🤨😩😩

Steve1071 · Answer

Seeing the country hyjacked by communist and marxist and seeing that 3/4 of the public has no balls to fight back.

joeldalton · Answer

I stopped playing pandemic in May, 2020. But I feel for you all who put up with your governments.

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