There were times working as a hospital RN that I felt appreciated but also expendable. My friends, co-workers, family and even my patients were appreciative and supportive. At work though I felt like administrators were appreciative of us to a point. They may have well have said "will do what we can to keep you safe, until we can't, and so good luck with that." I'm a little bitter though because I witnessed some of our health system administrators tell bold faced lies to the public and we all knew it and we all knew we'd be fired if we dared speak up.
It has taught me the importance of focusing on my own physical and mental health. It reaffirmed the fact that i hate being alone. I'm happier when I'm around people or when I'm connecting with people whether its in person or via technology.
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Humanity will kill each other over a piece of paper. No matter if it's on your face in public, in your pocket at the check point or locked away behind museum glass. If that doesn't work they will happily make sure you die in poverty.
It has taught me that being a shut-in is a good thing
It's taught me how fragile our economy really was even though it was shattering records and everything was dirt cheap that even I as a pizza delivery driver at the time making at most $400 per week could easily afford just about anything I wanted or needed and still with thousands of dollars in the bank.
All of that blew away so quickly when the pandemic hit and everything I knew in 2018-2019 disappeared. Prices continue to get worse and my money is quickly becoming worthless due to a record 7.5% inflation in a single month compared to an average of 1% in the preceeding years.
Gas went from being $1.57 per gallon by me in 2019 to $3.80 now, increased by 40 cents in a single day recently and a 2,200 Sq foot HOUSE with utilities included, no HOA fees, and no additional taxes being $400 per month and now in the same area, there isn't a house available for less than $2,000 per month and HOA fees with it, with the cheapest APARTMENT being $1,200 for a 500 square feet apartment.
Things were looking so great, homelessness was so foreign in the place I moved to but every day since the pandemic hit, i see a new person panhandling, tents everywhere and people laying on the concrete in the overpass.
All for a virus that was unavoidable and by all means we should've continued business as usual and accepted the fact that we'd all become one of two people, people who test positive and people who have it but haven't been tested. The economy took a nose dive like nothing else in history and it shows such a strong need for us to be independent of any other country, every single thing sold in this country should've been grown here using materials only from the US, so this can never happen again.
Politicians have way too much power and we're all feeling the effects of what they did, while they gaslight us by lying about prices and telling us right to our face that it's all in our head but we all remember when we didn't have to worry so much about our bank accounts because everything we needed was so cheap and available and now we have to pay 10-15× the price for what we need.
I've learned that people are far, far, FAR dumber and easier to manipulate and control than I had ever previously thought, which surprised even me. Within two years, you've got major rights being taken away in Western countries around the world (the worst being Australia and England), people advocating for fascism via vax mandates, and Canada turning into Communist China just within the past two months. This shatters what I previously thought about people being dumb, sheep, and very easy to control.
I always knew that at least a small part of the population, like maybe 5% (the progressives, mostly), would happily go along with any form of tyranny and government abuse and control. But not something like 50%+ of the population! All you got to do to create 1984 is tell people they'll die if they don't get vaccinated? It was really THAT simple for the West to go totalitarian?
At the very least, for every thousand easily-controlled fools and idiots, there's still at least 100 Canadian Convoy truckers out there. And now with the Russian-Ukrainian war, we're seeing even woke countries like Sweden, Germany, and Switzerland grow a pair of balls. Humans really are the most surprising species in the Milky Way.
I hope I don't end up triggering off a trolling type of an argument of any kind,... but my thoughts in relations to this are the highest parts of all governments, including foreign governments, they can control you and do whatever the hell they want to you regardless if you approve of what they are doing to you is right or not.
And the pathetic bullshit part out of all of this is,... there's not a damn thing you can do about it. Well I'm sure there is, but it just feels like you can't.
There is doing a shit or a fuck ton of protesting which that will take a long ass time to change things.
And shoving a needle down your throat without your consent? It's like "You have 2 choices. you take the shot,... you can live a happier life. You don't, you live on the streets. Plain and simple".
You might as well just say "If you take the shot,... you can be part of a safe and secured type of society. You get your freedom and life back. If not" looks at the armed special forces "Execute order 66".
It taught me soooo much. It taught me not to take life so seriously,
people who are higher in power don’t really care that much about you/ they’re not that intelligent or they lack humility.
I learned a lot about myself and what I actually want to do.
People in my life (family/friends) shown their true colors during times I needed them most
Don’t rely on one source of income!!
Learning basic survival skills..(directions w/o gps, gardening, hunting
Being present
Enjoy my alone time/ solitude
the importance of time and valuing it
Death doesn’t discriminate
Never stop telling your loved ones that you love them
I picked up the phone more (no choice lol)
This pandemic has been eye opening in many ways
I learned that social engineering really works and people will spas out a without doing any type analysis on their own. People are truly sheep.
Other than that nothing changed for me. I still did all things I have always done... with the exception of being forced to cater to other peoples insecurities without any real scene of logic to it.
I guess what changed the most for me, is that I no longer believe America is not truly free, with the first had experience in knowing civil liberties are first causality of panic.
i kind of knew that before the pandemic. but the pandemic has made me so blatantly aware that: you can neither trust the media, nor politics. you can still trust science but you gotta do your own work and can't trust the sources that are presented to you. cause everyone that presents you sources has their own interest in what choices they are gonna show you. they want to build your opinion, cause they benefit from that.
so i have learned: make your own opinion based on your own research. it is difficult, cause you will end up having an opinion that a majority of people don't share. but at least you know what the fuck you're talking about and you know that your opinion doesn't come from someone else that profits from you having that opinion.
The only thing the Pandemic taught me that it ruined a lot of people's lives including mines. My girlfriend left me hypocritically, I realize the pandemic is never going to restore people's lives, and no matter how many pandemic cures they make nothing is going to go back to being the same. So this is what Armageddon feels like then I've learned to live with it.
I always tell people they got 2 options on how they should live with this pandemic around:
1. Get used to the protocol, sanitizing, stay in 6 ft apart from everybody, get vaccinated, and learn how to live with it.
2. Kill yourself. That's the second option if nobody cannot deal with the pandemic pain that's never going away.
It taught me how utterly stupid most people are , how they just blindly follow very poor advice (s) rather than taking personal responsibility for their own health , believing that they can simply eat utter sht , not exercise , put on a lockdown and a mask and all will be okey , well no - its NOT okey , its up to you , and nothing in more important than your health.
But to generally BLINDLY just accept the reaction of governments was beyond ludicrous , detrimental actions that destroyed lives.
It showed me the general person is stupid , far too easy to follow , and simple to manipulate , what a joke this entire reaction has been !
SUPERSIZE ME , and yeah , extra frys - NO ! personal responsibility.
I've learned that we're fucked. The political response has ruined more lives than the virus and evidence shows that it probably helped the virus along. Rules were imposed on a general population that should've been reserved for those it actually threatened (elderly, underlying conditions, obesity). That Twitter and cable news, control the bulk of the masses... so well that they conviced a general population to believe a Orange man was colluding with Russia, and to vote in the man that actually was. Yeah we're fucked.
How ridiculous people will act in the face of logic and evidence exclusively due to their own fear. Some people are finally doing their apology tours because of how they treated people they didn't feel took the pandemic seriously enough
Thankfully no one that matters to me got that way. But friends of mine had family that disinvited then from Christmas and shit for thr first time in their life purely because of nonsense.
The more it turns out most people who didn't take it seriously were right that it wasn't as bad as the media said the more embarrassed they feel for how they acted.
Acting the fool because you think you're right is one thing. Acting the fool and realizing you were wrong is another thing
That I just wasted a few years in my life and vaccines do not work, and masks don't work I am fully vaccinated and I still got covid really badly. And I had the original covid. And when I got it for the second time it was no better. My symptoms were exactly the same
It taught me just how ignorant so much of the public population is after seeing the defiance of the vaccine and the wearing of masks. It has shown me how the Republican party is lost and full of liar's, cowards, and scum with their elected officials who are so afraid to stand up against that bumbling clown trump and rebuild the party to the respect it once held.
Some people are more stupid and paranoid and anti science than I would ever have believed.
They are willing to die for their ignorance and have demonstrated they don't give a shit about the people around them either.
Therefore we as a species will never solve an existential crisis like climate change. We have been too tolerant of their stupidity and they now represent an actual threat to society.
Maybe it's time to make their stupid small minded paranoid conspiratorial delusions a reality and wipe them out for real.
It taught me not to ever get jabbed with a vaccine ever again. I have long term medical conditions ever since I got the second shot. Several people in my apartment building that had the shots the same time I did are sick and we never regained the health we had prior to getting that damn vaccine. I feel fatigued and sick everyday now and always will. 🤬
That Governments lie, lie and lie and tell you what they you to hear and flip flop every other day. Then they put a doctor in charge who during the AIDS problem murdered thousands of people with his backing of the drug AZT and has now murdered hundreds of thousands more with his lies. OH! By the way in reviewing the paperwork for use of drugs against Covid19 the first 38 pages were about dangerous reactions and side effect, but we didn't hear anything about them just take the drugs because we know better than the doctors about what's good for you
were very fragile beings with a finite time here, live your life, respect others including nature and animals, make the best decisions you can. This is a life on lease.
The toilet paper episode showed how many people are like lemmings.
Its a non-essential product that has a good supply reliability but people started hoarding it anyway just because they saw other people do it.
Heck hoarding candles would have been more reasonable.
stay home.
wfm,
don't go to parties and infect everyone else.
wear a mask where ever you go
(It didn't affect my life or planned trajectory)
by the way I hate getting into quarantine or isolation hotels (u get the worst food)
unfortunate for most, i understand
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