Covid screwed up a lot of things. It could be school, a relationship, your job or maybe your favorite bar room or restaurant went out of business. Maybe somebody close to you has died. Did this get better or is it just messed up for good?
I was in China when the Covid started, the first couple months of quarantine, when the whole world was still unaware of the scale of a future pandemic, my ex fiancé and I were locked up together.
Sadly, I took a 2 week trip to Georgia to renew my visa and see my family, and the 2 weeks turned into 2 years as China totally locked up for not only foreigners but even Chinese nationals who were outside of it.
2 years is a long time, I ended up losing a person I loved the most.
Covid changed my life.
In another way, it took the life of my grandpa, he asked me to take him to vaccination, but I was so depressed due to long distance, I delayed it and when he was scheduled to get a first dose it was already late, he got a virus 2 weeks earlier than his vaccine appointment and passed away after 30 days of struggle at the hospital.
I’ll never forgive myself. I loved him a lot. He was the kindest person in the world, the bright light of a humanity. I miss him a lot. I could never imagine anything could beat him. What comforts me is that, I sometimes catch myself singing the same songs we sang together in the summer evenings and it reminds me that, I’ve got his genes and everything he was, still lives in me.
So I should take a good care of myself, because that’s how I save his life this time. This time I will try not to fail.
I can say Covid totally “screwed up” my life. The age of 25 was the worst I have had.
I wish I could go back in time in 2020 and never take that fateful flight back to Georgia.
I almost died of a heartbreak. Do you know how it feels when you love someone more than anything, when you know he loves you the same, when you are inseparable and suddenly there’s a whole world against you and your love.
Country locks up and you even feel so desperate you send a begging message to president of China, begging him to allow you to enter 1 day so you can see someone you love.
Everyday you wake up and search “When will the pandemic end?” Every single day for hundreds and hundreds of days.
You even consider learning flying, becoming a priestess to just be able to cross that fricking border that separates you from someone you love the most.
You make acquaintances with every shady person in China, you risk your money, everything, just to see him once.
And nothing works.
Like the whole world is against you and him.
You hate the world that doesn’t let lovers reunite.
You hate everyone, you hate life, you think your heart will stop from the pain of inability to touch him again.
You never know when and if you see him again.
It’s funny, that you only left for 2 weeks. Only for 2 weeks.
You cry your eyes out, you hate yourself, you hate that day when you left, you hate everyone who’s privileged to be able to touch their loved ones.
And every night you go to sleep and dream about being stuck in the airport, him waiting outside and then somebody stands between you and doesn’t let you hug him.
He keeps telling you to remember that he loves you and you love him more than you love yourself.
But seems like love can’t make the miracles. Love can’t give you wings to fly.
And then when everything else fails, when youmve tried 800 times and failed, you just close your eyes and feel jealous of birds, that they can go anywhere they want.
Wouldn’t it be nice to a bird?
Has it changed? Yes, my life has totally changed.
We realized life is a very unfair place, and even love is a luxury of the rich.
We’d be able to see each other, had we been the family members of politicians or some influential people. But we were just average people, our love meant nothing for the rest of the world.
I hope, I sincerely hope, everyone who has had part in our separation, will sometime in future, experience what it feels like to be madly in love with someone and not being allowed to touch and see them.
There’s not a hell worse than that. I don’t know what we did wrong. Why did we have to be so unlucky. If there’s god somewhere he’s a psychopathic sadist bastard.
It is sort of like this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GawyW1BqmEI
Thank you for sharing this song. You are right. The lyrics and melody indeed remind me of my story. I’ll listen to it again.
I am sorry you have lost the job. Please, don’t worry about that. As long as you’ve got your loved ones with you, you are a rich man.
I had to finish my studies at home which was stressful and harder. Lost contact with some of my friends because I didn't have their number. I was used to talk to them in person and I used to see them almost every day.
I also had to deal with my brother-in-law for 5 months because he decided to travel right before the closing of borders. So he got "stuck" where I live. He's a pain in the ass! 😡😡😡
Didn't have the opportunity to "say goodbye" to the university I used to attend to. Not to mention that I didn't have a graduation ceremony.
Unfortunately we will never know how 2020 could have been if it wasn't for Covid.
But compared to all the people who got severely sick, lost a loved one, lost their job or their home, my problems sound meaningless. So, I'm grateful for being alive, for not losing anyone I love and also for not getting seriously sick.
I was a professor at a local college and the last class before spring break I told everyone I would see them in a week. I never saw any of my students again.. I had to finish the semester on line and was laid off after that.
That's so sad. It must have been hard and strange for you. You probably had more work too.
I remember being in a English class. A lot of people were missing and my professor asked us if we knew why they skipped the class. One of my classmates said that it was because of Covid and we all laughed. We didn't know what was about to happen.
And that was our last class on site. The rest was all online.
It didn't effect anything in my life personally. I'm already educated and employed. My employers aren't dumb enough to push dangerous untested covid vaccines that most scientists knew were ad news. Nothing closed down where I live in Florida. We didn't have lock downs. My AC literally broke 1 day into the national lock down recommended by the federal government and I had a team of AC guys in my house the next day doing an install like it was a normal day. Around here no one cared. I never wore a mask. I didn't take any vaccines. I didn't change my diet. I went out every day. Everything was open. I lived life normally. Just got my normal daily sunshine, didn't tough my face when out in public, and washed my hands properly. I never got covid, the flu, the seasonal cold, etc. Life just continued on as normal. I saw the pandemic coming way early and stocked my pantry and bought a years worth of TP so supply chain shortages never affected me. Everyone I know who got covid, choose to get the vaccine. They all were infected after vaccination. Everyone I know that skipped the vaccine never got it. No one I know that got covid had any serious issue with it. Multiple people that took the vaccine are either dead or have serious health issues. I told them not to take it and why. They made their own poor choices...
You have zero clue who is “dead from the vaccine”. You have zero clue who has “serious health issues”. How in god’s green earth would you know that? I am dying to know how in any way shape or form you would know that.
You didn’t see anything coming early. Nobody saw any of the nonsense coming that we are dealing with now.
You saw the housing market becoming a literal clown world? You saw inflation rising by 5 million percent? You saw people becoming as retarded as they are now?
No you didn’t see any of that coming.
@jeffend888 Just because you're slow in the head doesn't mean other people are.
It's pretty easy to know what will happen with mRNA vaccines when you have studied biology... There were thousands of posts by me on this site all through 2020 and 2021 telling people the dangers of mRNA vaccines and not to take them, that they would cause blood clots, heart problems, autoimmune issues, and nervous system issues... I also specifically spoke to the danger of a potential reverse transcriptase. So yeah obviously I did know even though I was heavily censored and called names by losers like you. Guess what all your doctors knew as well.
It's pretty easy to know what will happen with inflation when the money supply expands, production of real goods is constricted by democrat lock down policy. I specifically made posts about it over and over and over again. It's called the quantity theory of money. Anyone who has taken a basic economics course would know about it. I specifically mentioned real estate as a hedge against inflation. Retarded people like you claiming to be the son of a wealthy dentist kept making wild assertions that investing in real estate was dumb and you never have that much of your portfolio in real estate. Yet here were are with property values more than doubling over these short years due to the devaluation of the dollar.
I specifically posted over and over and over again about the food chain reaction game and the plan to drive food prices sky high. I said phase 1 was laid out to incrase prices by 30%. They were able to drive them to 32% in phase 1. I said phase 2 was to drive prices up an addition 300% and were are in that phase at the moment. I referenced the simulation for everyone to read yet it fell on deaf ears by retards like you. I told you guys to buy farm land and to grow as much food as you can. It's something I literally do every single morning before I work my normal job. So yeah I obviously could see what was happening. Anyone who pays attention and whom has studied history can see what is going on. It's so in your fucking face it is impossible to miss.
You are the greatest Monday morning quarterback I have ever seen. You belong in the hall of fame.
@jeffend888 You don't even know what that means. You shouldn't use idioms you don't understand. It makes you look like an idiot. I called the plays at the time in the moment. I practices what I preached. What I spoke to came to fruition. Just so you learn something, a Monday morning quarterback is someone that calls the play after the game when they know the results not during. They don't execute the actions themselves, they think the quarterback could have done better. You're literally retarded so that will probably go over your head.
And I really hope you feel great about yourself.
@jeffend888 Whatever. You help who you can. Not everyone listens. There isn't anything that can be done about that. My immediate family, all my siblings, and my parent's listened and everyone is doing well. I'm happy they listened to reason. Family is important to me.
I'm proud of you.
@jeffend888 Whatever floats your boat stranger.
Covid created a whole lot more patients for me to take care of. Almost too many actually.
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Doubled the price of most of my foods. Delayed a kitchen remodel for a year and a replacement skylight for 6 months! Wrecked our church Food Pantry methodology where guests could come in and relax with a Continental Breakfast. (Now we just put a box of food in their car trunk).
@Massageman I did a bunch of home improvement projects. I was getting ready to replace the shingles on my house. I already did the garage and all of a sudden the price for shingles went from $27 a box to $66. I put a pin in that project and paid somebody to do it last year.
yeah- and they just blame the "supply systems".
I lost a lot of friends who were not only afraid, but pissed that neither my wife nor I bought to the propaganda, wore masks or got the jabs.
I found out that people who I had known for almost 20 years and thought were really, really good friends, weren't friends at all when they turned their backs on me and my wife for ideological reasons because we didn't join the Branch Covidian cult. Guess what? They were Democrats.
But that led to becoming friends with more intelligent and informed people.
Also, lot of really good local stores and especially restaurants were forced out of business.
It hurt my wife's hair styling business, too.
Well, it almost killed my dad, so that was pretty scary. Fortunately, he made it through and has had any long term problems that we’re aware of.
For less major but still annoying stuff, I’d say interrupting my initial foray into hockey was the worst. I was a couple months into learning to play, and then everything shut down. So I lost 14 months of development time, and I think about that every time I duff some basic shit when I’m playing, that I should’ve been over this kind of mistake 14 months ago, lmao. Maybe next year😂
Thanks, man! Still going at 91, he’s a tank💪
Well, let's see.
All of the incessant money printing led to fools getting rich and caused the housing market to be 200K higher than it was 3 years ago.
It caused demand for everything to land somewhere in the stratosphere and supply of everything to be tighter than my ass.
It led to mental health issues increasing 50 fold.
It led to more division between the two idiot political parties.
It led to everyone becoming a scientist and "doing their own research".
Other than that, it was great.
Covid didn't do squat, except push some people who were already dying of something else over the edge. That's little comfort to them or their loved ones, of course, but the damage done by Covid was minuscule. The damage done in the name of Covid- or the name of "stopping" it- is what future generations are going to curse us for.
The disease has a CFR of 0.3%, just over half that of chicken pox. It is not because of the disease that I'm in functional exile a thousand miles away from the life I led.
Actually quite the opposite, business got a lot better on the home building supplies side. We never closed and my employees stayed employed thanks to the government giving away money to people sitting at home. Those wive's made sure the honey-do lists were finally getting seen to.
Well it caused inflation so…. 🫠🫠🫠🫠
Other than that. It was hilarious because most of the zombies went and accepted a magic cure that showed up within the same year of the illness. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That ShT was f-King hilarious. Those cattle are chipped and probably owned by someone now 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 or maybe they’re gonna exterminate them all at once. Later in the future.
@exitseven
can't wait for that to happen because it really shows the extremely gullible and those who own a brain 🧠.
My employer (thousands of employees) had nurses come in and provide the vaccine and boosters. I have a gal friend who has been going through chemo weakening her immune system, so I still wore a mask for a long time, and get tested regularly for her protection.
Most reputable scientists and doctors concurred that the virus was dangerous and the vaccine and masks were excellent protections. I continued working with many others and have not been sick with anything since Covid arrived and Trump came up with his ridiculous suggestions of what to take to protect yourself. Scientists and medical professionals agree that the danger has mostly passed and masks are no longer needed. Yet in public I see many are still wearing them.
So nothing was screwed up for me. Some prices went up, but they have been doing that since money was invented.
i worked at the start- through it -in it- to the end of it, had zero effect on me or my life being an essential healthcare worker. work wise, the only thing that i see as well as other essential workers- is the absolute disrespect for healthcare workers as a whole when they come in still to this day, they way some act or talk to you
Due to my internship - later work, I had to follow the restrictions as good as I could, my education became more online based but other than that, it didn't change much for me. I'm already an introvert so the restrictions didn't bother me to much and everything is back to normal now anyways.
After the 2nd shot I became very ill. I never regained my health or the health; chronic fatigue, trouble with appetite, high blood pressure, too weak to movemy muscles like to wash hair, need help with that too.
I had one booster. I got pretty sick but my wife got really sick. After a few weeks she was still getting weird rashes and suffers from chronic fatigue. She works in healthcare and they made her get the shot. I got the shot because she did. We decided that no more shots. We will just retire it it comes to that.
Two things that CoVid changed is I got laid off and the guy I liked took a leave from work out of a fear of getting infected with the virus so no more work place talking. 4 years later, I think losing my job might be a very good blessing from God and even though the guy was nice, I believe I can find somebody that could make me even happier then him. The guy I liked was a nice person so he’s still welcome as a friend but he does not want to talk to me cause it’s against the rules.
COVID caused several restaurants in our area to close down, including one of our favorites.
COVID also caused most people to work from home, which was great for traffic... fewer cars on the road. Now, though, with many people no longer at home, it seems people forgot how to drive... they're all over the place, doing stupid things.
I didn't get the disease.
But it messed up my health. My workouts. Quite a few relationships. And a very special part of my life that I'll never get back.
It has truly screwed up my ability to trust others since Covid has exposed more of how sorry and tasteless society of present is and how dead and dry this world at large is.
It didn’t make this any better or worse, all this boiled down to the fact that I know how to and actually think for myself and make my own choices for my best interests.
It screwed up my business. I didn't work for 2 1/2 months. Several of my customers died from it. Some had to sell and move in with family in an area I don't cover. I'm still trying to get back to making what I was making before covid
It's like I'm starting over building my business. I joined a networking group called letip and I've been getting quite a bit of work from it
No, it made no difference. I had to work from home for a few weeks, but that was nice for a change.
@Nikki1989 One of the lucky few.
The over reaction to it screwed things up far more than the virus itself. I have not been directly or indirectly affected by the virus itself. But I've certainly been affected by the overreaction to it which totally fucked up the economy. It will take many years to recover from that. There are some things, like thousands of businesses that will never come back. Eventually they will be replace by something else, but it will never be the same as before.
Hard to say. I could say it wreaked havoc with my occupation. But that place is always one step away from a meltdown.😆
I'd say the only real drawback for me was it personally cost 2500 dollars. But it put me on a new career path that has the potential to be much more lucrative. So I can't say it was a bad thing overall. I'll have to get back to you on that in a few years.
I wouldn't say it was covid itself as much as it was the reaction of the masses that screwed things up. I see a lot of things are better, but 3 of my relatives are dead.
It put a lot of stress on my relationship with my former roommate. Because we were cooped up inside and couldn't go anywhere.
@Jamie05rhs FORMER roomate?
@exitseven Yes. THAT much stress.
It closed the doors of a lot of good businesses & also stores changed hours of operation as well.
My mental health. I was isolated for 2 years and nothing but staying at home, watching TV, and studying. No social interaction besides family (they keep me sane of course).
To me it screwed up the perception of otherwise innocent/neutral graphic symbols; ...
such as the one you used for the illustration of your question.
Getting covid knocked me out of my workout rhythm which i will try an restart tomorrow.
Getting sidelined by being sick was great for relaxing but not for hitting the gym.
Screwed up my head a bit.
Killed some brain cells.
that was watching disney you mean, right?
@elontesler3 haha, maybe early 70's shows...
it made my life harder to do what I need to get done every day, and more than lickly taken 5 years off my life. but I still here and working and enjoying my life
Im not sure it did to be honest, i like to say finances due to the cost of living crisis but im not sure Covid is to blame for that
Nothing permanently, but it was just a pain in the butt.
i didn't get covid because i dont watch cbs, cnn, or msnbc. trust me, i invented the Tesler Sibertruck, SpaceseX, and i own Twatter.
It’s made the price of damn near everything go up. Also, it changed my opinion of humans for the worse. It truly is frightening how many people support government authoritarianism. I heard about people supporting those who don’t vaccinate their children getting their children taken away from them. Just absolutely disgusting.
We live in Sweden, no lock downs, no bs. Just take precautions and viola. I liked covid time, it showed the real idiots and now i have better friends to laugh at idiots , so much fun.
COVID has been good for me once you get passed the chaos and initial stresses
I structured my business to operate amid the lockdowns and only made more as the economy crumbled
Yeah it sucked …Delayed my wedding by 2 years…i suppose we could have done it but we wanted everyone to have fun and be free
Business took a turn. The PPP grant helped a lot. Too bad fckin corporations took most of the money.
Covid gave Joe Biden a pass to screw up the US
My business gross income dropped by about 60% during the height of it, and that was in an "essential" industry.
Not a thing, but I won't be getting any more boosters.
It's actually a blessing in disguise for me.
everything, brain washed sheep!
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