What did the pandemic ruin more than we realize?

It ruined lives.....i lost my sister and several coworkers and clients.

I believe employers, office workers, downtowns and malls, real estate owners & developers, public transit systems are just beginning to grasp how much it changed everything. I won't say ruined. In some cases it provided impetus for long needed rethinking about work/home/commuting. Collateral damage has been downtowns, restaurants, entertainment districts.

I don't know if it is "more than we realize" but I think the learning loss of students was great. I have a young relative who missed half of kindergarten when the schools closed and then struggled with long-distance learning in the first grade. I doubt if he and most of his classmates have ever caught up to where they would normally be academically.

It changed "the old way" for urban workers. OK for them mostly.. But the cafes and small business that fed off the office traffic have never recovered. Even my favorite food court cafe in our local shopping mall racked up a $100,000 bill through lost income she has never been able to repay..😷

I had some social anxiety before but it's much worse after the pandemic. I can't be around people for a long period of time.

Well, I think for a lot of people it ruined their mental health, just not being able to see their friends and family, not to mention just being stuck inside your home, and also if people lost someone to the pandemic.

My believe that most people care about others.

A less serious thing .. but Movies. TV died during covid .. went from 55" to 70" and home theater set up ..

Very few movies worth going to theater for now anyway, so very seldom do

I had already lost trust in govt and most people before covid and covid just proved the point

Freedom

Empathy

in the USA

vaccine hesitancy for everything including COVID
even more distrust in biology (even more than before)
more prejudice against Chinese and Chinese Americans
transfer of wealth to the wealthy and more diluting of middle class
less compassion by more americans for the health and safety of the more vunderable (0ld)
more anger by more people largely due to economic insecurity and religious zealots but for different motives

Life

Education

common sense

Tested ones mental health. By having good days and bad days.

There are up to 30% of young adults that were infected with Covid that now have Long Covid, a chronic disease.

Drive

Trust

Lives. In multiple ways.

It forced people to become antisocial, for one not mentioned, which only hastened the deaths.

Common sense

My belief in humanity eventually coming together against a common threat

Families

All my friendships

Innocent lives.

Mental health.

It ruined many job opportunities. (mine included)

Trust in the government.

Before covid if you wanted to have a meeting at work you reserved a conference room, invited people, and prepared. Now everyone just does tele meetings on a whim for any reason. The number of unnecessary work meetings has quadrupled.

Faith in humanity
I saw all the worst possible traits in others

My belief that saner heads would ultimately win out.

When we saw half the city become empty shopfronts

Children's education

It didn't help anything. The virus, the lies, the non-vacine, the masks.

There was never a pandemic. It was all a lie. The measure was such a way that economic benefit
runs to several oligarch and common people left in ruins.

I will never trust big pharma ever again. NIH, CDC, FDA are frauds.

The pandemic never ruined anything.

Small businesses