Damage from all the lockdowns was devastating. My business and marriage fall apart, lost many friends, became alcoholic and now I have heart problems from overweight.
I firmly remember all the army trucks sprinting around my home city carting dead bodies and healthcare professionals, and the local government commandeering the local ice rink to serve as a makeshift morgue to handle the huge volume of COVID deaths that all the morgues and armed forces makeshift equipment were no longer able to handle.
I also remember that only the lockdowns were effective in reigning in transmission rates, hospital admission rates, and more importantly death rates.
I feel your personal take is ignorant and uninformed. I'm sorry your life fell apart during the past year, but the things you're choosing to pin the blame on are the things that saved millions from their deathbeds in understaffed hospitals from a disease with no treatment or cure.
>I firmly remember all the army trucks sprinting around my home city carting dead bodies and healthcare professionals,
I also remember many media outlets using extremely emotionally appealing images of "scary" hospital scenes and the like (I assume, to prey on our fears and insecurities to drive clicks and ad revenue). I also remember a picture of a pauper's graveyard being used as a image of how "horrifying" the Covid death rate was, and other visceral but misleading stories.
How many people actually died of Covid in your home town?
My experience was almost exactly the opposite of yours.
I had covid early this year. It was the worst I've felt in the last 10 years. Waking up at night with 10 minutes of dry cough was one of those few moments when I wonder whether this is how I'd die. Luckily I didn't.
The lockdowns were pretty damaging. But I'd be careful with blaming your personal failings on it. I suggest a good deep painful look into the mirror and a fitting therapist.
6.5M people died you know unlike the flu. Describing lockdowns as devestating when we barely did any here in the states doesn't make much sense. Virtually all decrease in commerce was down to people not wanting to hang out together and sicken each other.
I used the extra time together with my wife to make our relationship better because we spent more time together and started doing walking for exercise. If you became a fat friendless alcoholic with a failed marriage that is completely and totally on you. Nobody made you trash your marriage. Nobody made you have that drink. Nobody made you eat that twinkie. The sooner you take responsibility for crashing your life the sooner you can get back up on your feet.
Do you not find that your self-righteous comment about lockdowns is just about tone deaf as "I had covid, it wasn't that bad"? First of all, here are a couple more countries on the planet except the US.
Second, yes, great, you improved your marriage, I am really happy for you. But many people had it really bad. I can tell you what my life was in 2020-2021. In the first lockdown I watched my gf at the time going into a full-scale psychiatric meltdown and slowly losing grip on reality. I believe it was mostly caused by the stress of lockdowns. It completely destroyed our relationship because I didn't have experience nor expertise nor resources to be a full-time mental health nurse on top of everything else. All energy I had at that time I spent on trying to keep her from suicide (luckily I succeeded).
There were also periods when I was alone, totally alone, not seeing anyone IRL for weeks. This soul-crushing loneliness (together with lack of understanding from literally everyone) was the worst that I experienced in my entire life. If I could swap this horrific time for having covid five times in a row, I'd have done it without hesitation. If you told me that would mean 10% chance to die, I'd have done anyway. The only contact I had was occasional video chats with friends. Many of them were having more quality time with their partners and couldn't really relate why I was so miserable. Almost all of them recommended me more netflix to deal with this. It built up an awful lot of resentment. I lost some friends over this. Getting over a good friend telling you with a straight face "it is your fault you were unprepared for a global pandemic, if you started a family and had kids, you would have had it a lot easier" was pretty hard, believe me.
So for me lockdowns were devastating. Covid? YMMV, of course, but for me it was just a bad cold.
arinlen|3 years ago
I firmly remember all the army trucks sprinting around my home city carting dead bodies and healthcare professionals, and the local government commandeering the local ice rink to serve as a makeshift morgue to handle the huge volume of COVID deaths that all the morgues and armed forces makeshift equipment were no longer able to handle.
I also remember that only the lockdowns were effective in reigning in transmission rates, hospital admission rates, and more importantly death rates.
I feel your personal take is ignorant and uninformed. I'm sorry your life fell apart during the past year, but the things you're choosing to pin the blame on are the things that saved millions from their deathbeds in understaffed hospitals from a disease with no treatment or cure.
fdewrewrewf|3 years ago
I also remember many media outlets using extremely emotionally appealing images of "scary" hospital scenes and the like (I assume, to prey on our fears and insecurities to drive clicks and ad revenue). I also remember a picture of a pauper's graveyard being used as a image of how "horrifying" the Covid death rate was, and other visceral but misleading stories.
How many people actually died of Covid in your home town?
probably_wrong|3 years ago
I had covid early this year. It was the worst I've felt in the last 10 years. Waking up at night with 10 minutes of dry cough was one of those few moments when I wonder whether this is how I'd die. Luckily I didn't.
spoils19|3 years ago
michaelgrafl|3 years ago
michaelmrose|3 years ago
I used the extra time together with my wife to make our relationship better because we spent more time together and started doing walking for exercise. If you became a fat friendless alcoholic with a failed marriage that is completely and totally on you. Nobody made you trash your marriage. Nobody made you have that drink. Nobody made you eat that twinkie. The sooner you take responsibility for crashing your life the sooner you can get back up on your feet.
shmel|3 years ago
Second, yes, great, you improved your marriage, I am really happy for you. But many people had it really bad. I can tell you what my life was in 2020-2021. In the first lockdown I watched my gf at the time going into a full-scale psychiatric meltdown and slowly losing grip on reality. I believe it was mostly caused by the stress of lockdowns. It completely destroyed our relationship because I didn't have experience nor expertise nor resources to be a full-time mental health nurse on top of everything else. All energy I had at that time I spent on trying to keep her from suicide (luckily I succeeded).
There were also periods when I was alone, totally alone, not seeing anyone IRL for weeks. This soul-crushing loneliness (together with lack of understanding from literally everyone) was the worst that I experienced in my entire life. If I could swap this horrific time for having covid five times in a row, I'd have done it without hesitation. If you told me that would mean 10% chance to die, I'd have done anyway. The only contact I had was occasional video chats with friends. Many of them were having more quality time with their partners and couldn't really relate why I was so miserable. Almost all of them recommended me more netflix to deal with this. It built up an awful lot of resentment. I lost some friends over this. Getting over a good friend telling you with a straight face "it is your fault you were unprepared for a global pandemic, if you started a family and had kids, you would have had it a lot easier" was pretty hard, believe me.
So for me lockdowns were devastating. Covid? YMMV, of course, but for me it was just a bad cold.
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