Just kinda curious what life is like for everyone else right now.
Is your community super locked down still? Are people acting like nothing's happening? Something in between?
I'm in a big city and everything's been locked down for the last 2 years with some brief breaks for reduced capacity bar / restaurant openings etc.
I think I've seen friends / family like 4 times in the last 2 years? I know people who have barely even left the house for months. Is this normal where you live? I'm going fucking stir crazy and when I see posts on social media it just looks like life is normal for some people which is frustrating and I'm losing my frame of reference for what's normal right now
Heavily considering selling everything I own and attempting to move somewhere that gives less of a shit about covid if it doesn't get better fast, I'm obviously pro-vaxx / not some chud, but I'm losing my fucking mind
Things are back to normal more or less, bars and restaurants look crowded from outside, though probably 70% of people are still wearing masks in stores. My family had a big Christmas get together (I did not attend) and a bunch of them got COVID, then complained about how they got it despite "doing everything right".
Conversely, because my friends and coworkers aren't fucking dipshits, we're all still incredibly paranoid and fully remote. If you feel like you're starting to go insane, it's because we're being fucking gaslit by all the people who'd rather kill millions of people so long as they can pretend everything is fine.
I haven't had any friends since I graduated highschool (so almost ten years now).
It feels worse than it did before. I rarely went outside to do anything but buy stuff/food but I miss going to the gym and at least being in a semi public place. It seemed to do me good even though I don't talk to anyone, I've noticed my agoraphobia/social anxiety is starting to come back and I legit will dip out of places if I see too many people.
I always want to say the USA is an isolating place but it's also kind of a me problem, I know a lot of my coworkers still go out like every week. Mostly everything is open.
moved back to the east coast. am dirty kid. east coast not kind to dirty kids. work with tons of red necks. haven't been laid in like two years now. don't trust any of the people around me.
everyone still wears masks, last 2 christmases were more-or-less cancelled, still use zoom a lot. I think that's the major stuff
oh yeah I literally haven't spent a single cent at a restaurant since before covid, nor have I gone to a movie theatre
I moved to a new place right before covid hit, and even without covid it's just a very different culture than what I'm used to. So... I pretty much have no friends here, besides a dog I picked up at the humane society. One of the best decisions I've ever made. But yeah, other than work and walking my dog, I pretty much never leave the apartment.
Dogs are amazing - I luckily adopted a dog a few months before the pandemic and it's definitely helped a lot. Glad to hear you have a buddy
Acting like nothing happened. We never really locked down at any point tbh.
Pretty much shit is “normal” now as far as going out and that. There’s a couple bars I drive by On my way To and from work and they’ve been packed since like idk… June or so last year?
I was a pretty big home body before the pandemic anyway so it really didn’t change much for me. I have with people sometimes, play shows every now and then. But most of my time is chillin with my partner at home
Here for the most part things are back to normal except for somewhere between 20-80% of people wearing masks depending on the event/place. Most large scale events do have less people in attendance though.
Personally, I've been going a bit stir crazy myself. I went to a wake/funeral a while back but it felt really good to be around people.
I've been working retail full-time since the start of the pandemic so I never did get a sense of things shutting down anyways. I spent a lot of time in self isolation before covid with a strong desire to finally go out in late 2019. I kinda feel the same way now as i did then. Maybe because my social life has been taking a turn for the better recently? Sorry if this came out like a bunch of rambling
Shit TBH. My closest friends ended up moving further away from where they used to be and I haven't really made any significant connections since then. And for whatever reason I just never feel like I can maintain a relationship where I'm not actually seeing the people I'm in a relationship with. Like I've tried texting and calling, but it just doesn't feel the same.
I only just started going out for drinks with a few co-workers again this past holiday season. But even then I just don't ever really feel like a part of the group. Even before the pandemic I would always have problems opening up to people, but it just feels like its gotten worse since the start of the pandemic.
thank christ I made some fucking friends before this started because I've been able to rekindle a few of them for the time being. Don't really have close friends though or a partner to confide in, but I've never really had that. Im probably gonna be moving soon though so idk what I'm gonna to do after that. Not sure how to meet new people as an adult in this world. I got my cats and I love them like my non-existent children so it hopefully won't be too bad.
