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Has the pandemic changed you?

I use to be a get up and go type of person. Then the pandemic hit us. First it was the lockdowns. Then stores just were not open. When they finally did open I was scared of getting the disease so I stayed away. I started sitting home more and streaming TV. Now two and a half years later I just want to sit in my recliner. No need to do whatever today. I'll get to that tomorrow or the next day. I never use to be like this.

Currently I need to clean the interior of the RV. We live in hurricane ally and September is the most active month of hurricane season. Whenever they have one forecasted to hit us we load the RV and leave town. Sadly my wife has had some health issues and we haven't used the RV since last October. Normally we take the RV out a couple of times a month so the interior gets cleaned regularly, but not this past year. The exterior has been washed and waxed. The chassis has been serviced. Now I just need to do the interior. For some reason I have been putting it off for a couple of weeks now. I seem to have lost my get up and go since the pandemic. Has this happened to anyone else?

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Dainbramadge · 56-60, M

I have been told that inactivity is addictive. It's a learned trait.
I spent a lot of years locked up in my house because I am bipolar and had this crushing anxiety.
I was pretty much a shut in. So now I am having to teach myself to be more social. It isn't easy when your brain has adapted avoidance.
So I would suggest setting up small trecks out of the house each day. If you do a small trip everyday just for the sake of doing it then eventually you will be back to where you were before the shutdown.
Good luck and I'm sorry to hear about your wife's health.

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Fullmetal · 46-50, M

It did! I no longer watch any news channel, barely turn on the TV. Limit social media too! I love my covid bullshit free bubble!!

SW-User

@Fullmetal far far healthier

JimboSaturn · 51-55, M

I think it has made me re-evaluate my work/life balance.

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GBPackersFan · 41-45, M

Yes I haven’t left the house in over two years and have had gained over 200 pounds in the process. I could be a float at Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

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Graylight · 51-55, F

@GBPackersFan Today is a good start. Go appreciate nature for 5 minutes, then 10. This thing put us all in a cave and we're just now really emerging. It's a chance to start anew.

Carissimi · 70-79, F

Are you joking about the weight gain? That’s a huge amount in such a short time. @GBPackersFan

Fairydust · F

Mmm good question, I had nearly two years off, being self employed, nearly all my work had to be cancelled or rescheduled for a later dates, again and again, very stressful.
it really got me down not working, it was hard, especially going through a separation while it was going on.
Felt like I lost everything. I felt very alone and isolated.
It did however give me time to reflect on life, heal (I cried a lot) did a lot of self help online. I feel I’m stronger now. If I can get through that I can get through anything, so maybe I needed that time off ☺️

Covid changed how I see the world though, made me look deeper into things, which wasn’t good but I’m glad I know what’s going on.

I’m back working now and life is better 😌✨

I hope you’re ok and thing look brighter soon for you both 🤗

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Fairydust · F

@Stereoguy

Thank you!! I hope you find your [b]get up and go [/b] maybe just aim for one thing a day extra and build it up. I hope your wife’s health gets better too 🌷✨

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TexChik · F

Yep . Now we know we can’t trust doctors to make good decisions.

Could it be they see criminal charges and prison time coming next year?

saragoodtimes · F

@TexChik anybody involved with the government is a politician first. remember when this was at it's peak and asking Alan when it was going to end and he replied how the hell do I know I'm a doctor not a politician

hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

@TexChik One can certainly hope that justice follows. It is not like they don't deserve jail time for what they did to people like my brother in law that died because of the vax.

TexChik · F

@hippyjoe1955 They deserve jail time or worse ( CDC hacks) . I lost several friends to the vax . My doc told me not to take it . She’s also my neighbor. She fixed me in 3 days when I got it . .

deadgerbil · 22-25

Idk if it changed me that much. I've always procrastinated and I enjoy the increased free time as social obligations have lessened.

I definitely gained an appreciation for not being sick in general. I went two years without anything until I got some sort of viral infection that was spreading at work that gave me acute bronchitis. I had that stuff for more than a month and I'll gladly take masks and people distancing over me hacking up a lung and not being able to do much

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Iwillwait · M

I'm heavier, tired more often and less motivated.

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Iwillwait · M

@Stereoguy we gotta just get up and keep moving.

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Iwillwait · M

@Stereoguy Yes!

PerfectionOfTheHeart · 46-50, F

Never in my life have I disinfected my hands so much. It’s still a multiple times a day thing, but it was probably something I needed to add to my daily roster anyway. I keep my distance from everyone except my family now, which actually goes against my natural tendency to be close to the people I’m comfortable with. Instead of sneezing or coughing into my elbow, I take the neck of my shirt and stretch it over the bridge of my nose. And I’ve noticed I smile at strangers a lot more than I used to. Ever since this thing went down, the vibe has shifted out there and I don’t know. Something in me just wants to do whatever I can to combat that, even if it’s just giving a smile in case someone needs to feel that warmth and acknowledgment for a moment.

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Fullmetal · 46-50, M

@PerfectionOfTheHeart my hands ingested more alcohol than my mouth did

Dan193 · 31-35, M

Yeah it gradually made me more anxious, until I hit the bottom. Now I'm clawing my way back up. The good thing about it, is that I'm building up a momentum that hopefully will last and launch me up past my initial point.
So I hope I will eventually see it as a blessing in disguise.

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Dan193 · 31-35, M

@Stereoguy thank you, I wish you the best as well and to your wife

Sutten · 36-40, F

I seem to online shop for groceries etc, I dont want to go to the physical store, it was a habit that started due to covid and it just stuck.

Carissimi · 70-79, F

I keep making this goal to go inside the grocery store instead of picking up outside. So far, I haven’t done it. The thought of being “normal” again and being around a crowd of people seems alien and strange. @Sutten

SW-User

Yes ...it's made me alot more adventurous...makes me want to travel more ..being on locked down sucked ...i felt like a caged animal ..

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

For a while. It gave me strength to finally get a driver's licence but I'm afraid that I'm back to old myself again. I haven't driven since I passed exams. ☹️ I planned to move forward after that step but I got covid shortly after a now my hand is messed up because of mouse overuse so I literally don't know what next.

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CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

@Stereoguy It'll unfold somehow over time. I just didn't expect that maybe I will have to reconsider a career. I still hope I won't because I don't know what could I do.

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SW-User

I lost my get up and go in 2004. For me the pandemic only made me fog up my glasses more often.

akindheart · 61-69, F

actually i changed for the better. i wash my hands more. i did a LOT around the house that i normally don't have the time to do. I didn't eat as much because i was busy. i planned trips in my head and then on paper which i carried out. i am doing ok

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akindheart · 61-69, F

@Stereoguy i have been all over the place. Kentucky twice and the derby, Ireland, Greece, south Dakota, Niagara Falls, and now i am going to Atlantic City, Peru and Egypt and maybe thailand and china to see the terra cotta warriors

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akindheart · 61-69, F

@Stereoguy sure thing!!

sarabee1995 · 26-30, F

I realized recently how different my experience was with the pandemic versus everyone else. I was afloat with USS Eisenhower for seven months when everything was shutting down so I never experienced the initial shock of shut down. By the time I got back, some stuff was opening back up.

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Carissimi · 70-79, F

Yes. It’s changed me a lot. Even in isolation for 2-years, 8 months (mine started in December of 2019 because I had the worse flu ever, and by time I was better, Covid was a thing), I looked forward to just picking up groceries at pick up point because it got me out of the house, now it’s a struggle just to do that. Most weeks, I don’t want to go out. Don’t want to be around other people. It’s like the outside world has become alien to me, and I don’t belong.

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Carissimi · 70-79, F

But what’s made it worse is the outside world has changed too, and not for the best. Maybe different where you live in the Free State, but this state is Woke, and the signs of Wokeness are everywhere. @Stereoguy

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Carissimi · 70-79, F

I know. He’s a great leader. We need more like him. @Stereoguy

SubstantialKick · 31-35, M

Well 2020 was the most depressing year of my entire life, and I really lost the motivation to do many things that I really enjoyed.

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SW-User

I lost my parents and had my firstborn at the start of the pandemic so I was way more concerned with that. Moreover, I was certain that covid posed hardly any risk to young and healthy people. I read the science and considered all of the cases I had heard about...I knew/knew of 40+ people who'd had it by June 2020 and none were that ill with it.

I suppose it did make me question our governments more and now I trust them less. I didn't particularly have much trust in them prior to covid though. I don't pay any attention to the mainstream media, especially in regard to health matters. I think it's abhorrent that people have been coerced into having the vaccine, but people (like me) who did refuse aren't going to be vilified for much longer. The reality is that this will all be a dark and distant memory in a couple of years...it's just a shame so many people were so badly impacted by it.

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SW-User

@Stereoguy Thank you ❤️🤗

Well done for making that decision. If I were you I'd just get to cleaning that RV and take it out somewhere ☺️

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REMsleep · 41-45, F

No, the pandemic hasn't changed me at all by God's grace not because I'm so special or anything. I had a travel job that actually ramped up during the first year of the pandemic so I was thrust into chaos.

I wore a mask everywhere for 2 yrs and didn't visit my mom often as usual but otherwise lived as normal flying place to place as an essential worker.
Last week a couple of the employees that I was training left sick with confirmed COVID and still I did not catch C19.
Thank God.

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REMsleep · 41-45, F

@Stereoguy My background is in laboratory science so I went around helping labs set up new tests during the pandemic, military bases, hospitals, universities. Sometimes walking thru long lines of sick people in the beginning. Being near thousands of samples.

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Gusman · 61-69, M

I don't think it changed me any.
The lockdowns had no effect on me as I am comfortable entertaining myself.
I never let the fear of getting covid stop me doing anything.
I still go out and about as if there was/is no pandemic.
If I do get covid, C'est la vie.

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JustNik · 51-55, F

Not really for me. It might have more, but I actually had to trade my work from home job for a public job that put me right in front of hundreds a day. Masking and sanitizing and basic common sense proved themselves to me so I didn’t get a chance to get too afraid. Worked out for the best I think. Still, I know how hard it can be to get oneself out of a rut! Maybe try drawing up a schedule for yourself to follow that gradually ramps up more activity until you feel more like your old self? Instead of tackling the whole RV in one day and struggling to find the motivation, it might work better if you just picked one part of the project to do at a time. If you set your mind to it, I’m sure you can overcome the slump. 🤗🤗🤗

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smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F

No the pandemic hasn't changed me at all

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smileylovesgaming · 31-35, F

@Stereoguy since the kids are back in school now. I may have to talk my husband and a couple of our friends into going to the lake for a fun afternoon

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TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

It has made me determined to spend as little time at home as possible.

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TheSirfurryanimalWales · 61-69, M

@Stereoguy this Summer I’ve been watching loads of cricket.
September is busy with the end of the cricket season,the start of the rugby
season and two concerts.

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LunarOrbit · 56-60, M

Im with you. Covid…age….depression…retirement…

I got all the excuses. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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Barny52 · 56-60, M

No kept walking the dog in lockdown kept busy at home finding jobs that perhaps didn’t need doing , I did get scared of crowds till i had the jab, you sound like me before my wife finished work I didn’t have much motivation while home alone.

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Barny52 · 56-60, M

@Stereoguy hopefully your wife will be healthy and then you will, good luck

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Graylight · 51-55, F

Man is a lazy animal. Some in lockdown had protracted periods of isolation and could've done literally anything - learn an instrument or language, start a volunteer group or reading circle. Create a job, even. But we learned how to make sourdough starter, a talent about half a percent will ever use again.

The point is, an object tend to stay at rest until operate on by force. That force here is "acting as if." Don't do things because you enjoy them if that's not possible yet ; do them because it's the functional, productive thing to do. For the sense of accomplishment at having done anything good. It'll take time, but I think you'll find your soul awakening again. Yes, everyone I talks to can talk about how hard this pandemic has been for them. We all have to learn to be communicative, social and civil again; what a good chance to polish our skills.

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MoonlightLullaby · 41-45, F

It didn't affect my life in any detrimental way, and that's with having Covid several times while having an autoimmune disease and compromised lungs. I hope & pray that you get your life and spirit(s) back soon. You're a very deserving soul. This too shall pass.♥️🙏

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MoonlightLullaby · 41-45, F

@Stereoguy You're welcome...
As always, I also pray the wifey is doing well. I know you worry greatly about her.🤗

Shannon27 · M

If you don't have a pet get one. If you get a dog you will have to get out with it a couple of times a day for a walk that would be good for you. You will also have the added responsibility of getting up and feeding, grooming and other essential needs for the dog. This would all be good for you.

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Shannon27 · M

@Stereoguy Pretty Kitty.

Ontheroad · M

Not outwardly, but inwardly, yes. I became aware of the number of people who cared nothing about humanity and only about themselves. I think I'm now a bit more disillusioned than I previously was... I really had more more faith/belief in the goodness of man. Now, not nearly as much.

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GJOFJ3 · 61-69, M

Not in any significant way

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ravenwind43 · 51-55, F

No I am always busy doing something between work and chores and errands. Life has been pretty much the same even during the pandemic. At least the masks are 99% over.

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ravenwind43 · 51-55, F

@Stereoguy The masks or the other stuff? The other stuff I find laborious more or less lol.

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hippyjoe1955 · 61-69, M

It made me realize that the enemies my weird friend of 40 years ago are real and not the figament of some crazy guy's imagination. I fought that theory for 40+ years and now I am sad to say that the theory I once denigrated is the only theory that explains all the evidence.

4meAndyou · F

I can take 2 caffeine pills and regain my get up and go, but then I over do, (always), and exhaust myself. I suppose it doesn't help that I have been sick for so long...seems like 4 months or more, now. One infection after the other.

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masterofyou · 70-79, M

The vaccine put me down now trying to come back have to clean my medical conversion van so many things to do so little time...

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Slade · 56-60, M

I've gotten lazier not working. After the summer I will get busy. I don't care what I do

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Slade · 56-60, M

@Stereoguy Yes. I've taken some necessary courses this summer but, frankly, they didn't take up too much of my time.

Next week I'm up at Cape Cod staying with a friend. She's a switch hitter but has been in girl mode recently. Some buddies threw cash on the table and said it's mine if I can bring her back to guy mode. Lol. 😋

sspec

Raises both hands* pandemic or No pandemic.

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sspec

@Stereoguy Guess I am now ready to go up the stage for my [i]The Laziest[/i] Award.

Stillwaiting · M

My motivation was sapped at times too .. but biggest impact between all the vax/antivax and wokeness .. I've learned 6ft isn't nearly far enough to be away from a lot of people ;-)

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thewindupbirdchronicles · 46-50, M

I got bored... and I may not be able to hold any politician accountable for that, I think they earmarked a clause somewhere of indemnity, but I can be bored with the lot and boredom is habit forming.

BizSuitStacy · M

It made me realize globalists are serious enough about depopulation, they'd manufacture a virus to expedite the process.

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BizSuitStacy · M

@Stereoguy It is, but I'm glad they exposed themselves. We have a fighting chance to stop them.

FurryFace · 61-69, M

yes it made it pretty well impossible for me too see a Doctor , but i was very happy when the Mask wearing mandate was over , for now anyways

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Ducky · 31-35, F

Nope. I'm an introvert and a homebody. The lockdown was a dream come true for me. But I empathize with those who were impacted negatively by it.

ravenhill · M

i am sorry for you, but no, i'm still the same, i just keep trying. god loves a trier.

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V00doo

It's made me want to leave the city

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Dan193 · 31-35, M

@V00doo same. I actually moved back to my home town. To spend more time with family, that I took for granted in the past and didn't quite appreciate, as I should have, no matter what happened in the past.
Anyway I'm feeling way better now, and I haven't had any cynical thoughts in a while. Also I'm working on my learnt behaviours. Losing bad ones and adding good ones.

V00doo

@Dan193 Feel better for it? My parents moved in with us just before, dad was due surgery, and theyre still here. Ive slowed down, a lot.

Dan193 · 31-35, M

@V00doo I see, well gotto look for ways to get back in shape and to feel 💯 again. Can't leave it like that.

eyeno · M

Same, no motivation.

Miklee02 · 51-55, F

Nope ….

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Redstar · 36-40, M

Why do you live in a place called Hurricane Alley? You might as well just wait in Crime Alley for your parents to get murdered so you can become a vigilante.

lovelywarpedlemon

it make me have microchip in my kneecap and now i'm one of the Musk of Elon's cohortts 👾

SW-User

Yes.

My mum said it too

She lost her spark

I feel that too

And my son is worrying me greatly

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SW-User

The time of the pandemic is also when someone who truly touched my heart...died.
There wasn't a funeral or even any kind of meeting for goodbyes... not even an obituary.
I lost interest in so many things... am finally back on track more this year.
I see family members with so many upsets... more anxious and not wanting to do much of
anything and worrying about everything.

I became very rebellious.... plan to stay that way.

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SW-User

@Stereoguy I'm glad our jobs were considered necessary, but I didn't feel so lucky trying to work with a face mask stuck to my face... it was causing a lot of issues with the strenuous work. Seems to me the ones who stayed home got a better deal. lol Even more money!

This pandemic changed how I see a lot of things... and people.

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Graylight · 51-55, F

@SW-User The grass is greener. I had to give up my job because no precautions were offered and my work really has to be face to face.

But my spouse has transitioned to working from home. Longer hours, same pay, isolation and noise interference are constant conversations here. So you just never know.

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