Anyone Else Miss the Pandemic?

MyLove4Satan · 27-06-2022 8:00pm #1

Has anyone else been feeling a sense of loss or helplessness since all the lockdowns and restrictions have ended?

During the height of the pandemic we knew the rules and what we were told to do. There was no guessing. We felt protected by our government. We knew who the enemies of society were. Contact Tracing Apps and Vax IDs Apps put us in control. Provided security. Gave meaning to our lives. Took away the constant terrors. The Garda Jeruselma dancing. It made me feel truly alive.

Since all this has been taken away I feel lost and without purpose to myself. Anyone else feel the same? I found this video very comforting as it explained the kind of person I am perfectly.

https://plandemicseries.com/massformation/?fbclid=IwAR2rIAluYy3JxIQKkDyNYHOIm-IyLovh-yQCOimV_Qrm7f858iNIy-pAMPI

Gant21 · 27-06-2022 8:05pm

Protected by our government seriously?

2Mad2BeMad · 27-06-2022 8:06pm

The only thing I miss are the empty roads on the m50 to and from work.

Atlantic Dawn · 27-06-2022 8:12pm

I miss the €1.13 a litre petrol 😁

Itssoeasy · 27-06-2022 8:14pm

miss it ? Not even slightly

27-06-2022 8:17pm

Aren't we heading back down that road again....eventually!

Numbers are apparantly growing again so at some stage there will be another lock down.

Bobblehats · 27-06-2022 8:17pm

I’m surprised we didn’t have a Miss Pandemic such was the fervour. .. well , you could argue we did and a cruel mistress she is.

bucketybuck · 27-06-2022 8:19pm

Of course there are people who miss it. Those little bitches were the reason it lasted so long in the first place.

Furze99 · 27-06-2022 8:23pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119258925#Comment_119258925

Them were the days we won't be seeing again! Seriously though, there's many a business is going to struggle a lot more in the current climate with the reduction in discretionary spending than compared to what went down in Covid times. There was a lot of talk of businesses going to the wall after Covid and this inflationary spiral is the stake to the heart.

wonski · 27-06-2022 8:24pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119258925#Comment_119258925

When was that?

I don't remember 1.13 a litre tbh.

Higgins5473 · 27-06-2022 8:29pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058252083/anyone-else-miss-the-pandemic

You’re not alone, there are plenty others with mental health issues also. Seek some kind of help is my advice.

lawred2 · 27-06-2022 8:30pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058252083/anyone-else-miss-the-pandemic

windup

Bobblehats · 27-06-2022 8:32pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119259014#Comment_119259014

You’ve not heard of Stockholm syndrome?

Atlantic Dawn · 27-06-2022 8:34pm

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24th May 2020, I still have the receipt, €1.12.9.

27-06-2022 8:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119259030#Comment_119259030

Are you the sort of lad who will travel to the next town to save a few cents per litre, and then drive everyone to drink talking about it?

lawred2 · 27-06-2022 8:55pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119259018#Comment_119259018

Ah yeah but come on... the "gave meaning to our lives" bit

Andrewf20 · 27-06-2022 8:56pm

2 young kids at home half killed me. But empty roads to work were great.

Atlantic Dawn · 27-06-2022 8:57pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119259120#Comment_119259120

No it's my local station.

Xander10 · 27-06-2022 8:59pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058252083/anyone-else-miss-the-pandemic

I'd say there are a few missing the "Free Money" (PUP payment).

Shoog · 27-06-2022 9:00pm

I had a good pandemic, I live in the country and still got to meet my neighbours on a daily basis. I got to use my camper van to get about without mixing to much. I helped a friend renovate his house and earned a bit of extra cash to boot.

The only thing I didn't get to do was see my two grown up children which was unfortunate.

ancapailldorcha · 27-06-2022 9:10pm

I'd a great pandemic. Missed a few weddings, saved some money and am in the best shape of my life.

That said, it was tragic for many people. I got lucky. Would hate for this to happen again.

dalyboy · 27-06-2022 9:24pm

I was looking forward for it to end in order to see political and medical tribunals to finger the people responsible for the number one most overly exaggerated nothingness of our lifetimes. Alas still waiting

Leg End Reject · 27-06-2022 9:29pm

I enjoyed the first 3 months, "working" from home and great weather.

It got old very quickly though and I'd rather eat glass than go back into lockdown. Time to get on with it regardless of numbers now.

rob316 · 27-06-2022 9:37pm

The first lockdown had a novelty factor and after seen the deaths in Italy it honestly felt like alot of horror was to come. Then it was just a pain, my business was closed, I love to travel, terrible time with autistic son out of school so never slept, no pub, no gym and worst of all was all anyone could talk about was the **** numbers and then bleating on about how many vaccines you had like it was a badge of honour. A load of **** I never want to experience again.

And it was all for nothing in the end, just so over exaggerated. Now we are left with ridiculous inflation, a fucked supply chain, a time bomb property market and a mother of a recession around the corner.

Potential-Monke · 27-06-2022 10:11pm

Yup, miss it. Miss not having to deal with the (evident in this thread) absolute doses who think they know everything. Miss the lack of traffic. Miss the quieter shops. Miss people not standing on me in queues. Miss not having to make small talk. People suck.

Say Your Number · 27-06-2022 10:55pm

I have fond memories of April/May 2020, January to March 2021 was incredibly grim though.

I would be glad if I saw nothing like it again.

27-06-2022 11:19pm

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Well..... my fantastic loyal sheepdog called time in Feb.20 after a very happy 14yrs ( ol shep was a legend...... totally ignored Mrs Mc Carthy & grown daughters... idolized me). Come April 2020 I'm as happy as Larry on the PUP..... one day this beat up, half starved, down-on-his-luck mutt staggered up the drive & threw himself down in the porch. Mrs Mc Carthy & myself both agreed that this guys 'race was run' , he had drawn on here to die. Long story short day by day he's getting stronger & more steady on his feet. After a week I take him to vet.....she gave him a right cocktail of tablets.....said he wasn't chipped & was only 3yrs old ( I had put him at 6/ 8 yrs old). Jeez, not a handsome guy ( vet said a corgi / bulldog mix.....seriously ) but character.....hes got it in spades.... a brilliant dog/ friend... for the first 6months of pandemic I used to walk with this guy 3-4 hrs a day....... quality time...... I do miss that aspect of the whole pandemic.

Lavdogg · 27-06-2022 11:30pm

Don't miss the daily ping from the journal each day with the numbers!

It was all a bit mad at the start when you look back at it, there were times when the highlight of the week was going to do the shopping to bump into other people ya knew or hearing that someone ya knew tested positive and the panic and worry that came with it.

There was some lovely weather and good "lockdown challenges" but you couldn't help but feel a little lost when we were allowed do things again.

27-06-2022 11:43pm

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Haha..... the weekly shop was a bit of a " treat" ( I used to iron a shirt, shave, shoes polished 🤣) ..... you'd slip 3/4 bottles wine into the trolley & rather than Mrs Mc Carthy bitching she'd say " better grab another couple to be on the safe side".......mmmm, happy days allright

Arghus · 27-06-2022 11:46pm

Nah, it was horrible.

March/April 2020 was awful, the feeling of reality becoming unglued, and the beginning of 2021 was so grim.

Gant21 · 27-06-2022 11:51pm

I would like to take this opportunity to wish Paul Reid all the best. The man got us through the pandemic, himself and Tony are heroes.

snowstorm445 · 28-06-2022 12:03am

There are some bits of life during lockdown which made sense. Being able to work from home was a huge boost mentally and professionally.

But overall it was a terrible time. As someone in my 20s it cut through a huge chunk of my life when I definitely would like to have done far more. I lived abroad as well so I didn't see most of my friends and family for well over a year, and I was lucky. I think it was easier at the beginning when there was a sense of purpose and when we tried to adjust in any way we could. But that really wore thin quickly, after a month or so very few people still enjoyed the online hangouts or quizzes, I think it became clear just how much of a poor substitute they were for the real thing. And then of course there was the stigma it created for normal behaviour. Everything we took for granted became taboo nearly overnight.

And while it seems obvious now, it wasn't clear up until maybe the start of this year whether the pandemic would ever come to an end. It seemed like this was the sterile, awful new reality.

And finally it's also made us aware of just how terrible pandemics can be. And how it might not be the worst of them. If the bird flu/H5N1 ever becomes a pandemic for example it'll made COVID look like a stomach bug. It's a depressing wake up call to the threats that are out there.

Gant21 · 28-06-2022 12:09am

Stephen Donnelly will be the new hse chief, he will have no problem controlling bird flu/H5N1.

Schwiiing · 28-06-2022 12:10am

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Couldnt put it better. Everyone at home foind time to tidy their properties up. Every house painted, lawns mowed, weeds pulled. Rural Ireland never looked as well as back then. Pandemic took out a few pubs here and there which is no bad thing. Can drive through town without having to look at cretins gawking out the pub door smoking fags.

bb12 · 28-06-2022 1:00am

the first few months were just idyllic...working from home in the good weather..loving life and the new reality...but out of nowhere my parent was diagnosed with a terminal illness(not covid), which led very quickly to myself and family providing end of life care with little available outside support...then a funeral and grieving at the height of lockdowns...don't think i'll ever fully recover from the trauma of it all.

o1s1n · 28-06-2022 1:07am

It doesn't take some of you very long to put on the rose tinted glasses, does it?

It was a bloody pandemic. Restrictions on movement. 2km limit at one point. Can't see family further away. Wondering we'd all die at the start (or at very least, all our elderly relatives). will it result in us all losing our jobs. Will there be food shortages. Will there/wont there be a vaccine, will it all turn into The Purge.

There was a huge level of uncertainty, especially the first year. Can't believe some folks are already at the 'ah sure weren't all the mowed lawns and empty roads great?' stage.

Sorry but no, the pandemic can **** off.

Eduard Khil · 28-06-2022 1:42am

No chance

so many businesses closed because of it or are now struggling to catch up to the debts built up during it,the world us facing a global recession and people are fondly looking back on a pandemic, its not gone yet you do reliase that I hope.

job seeker · 28-06-2022 2:49am

I was on PUP for 6 months and I got through so much Netflix! It was great! Then I got covid and I watched more Netflix for them 11 days! I didn't mind not going anywhere either! It was great!

28-06-2022 2:54am

His post is sarcastic. The link reading PLANdemic should of illustrated that 😄

Agree with your point behind the sarcasm, OP. Some people had no meaning or purpose in their lives prior, and the whole shitshow gave them a sort of "structure" for a while. Hence they were so slow or unwilling to let it all go. Sad stuff.

Never again, anyway.

-=al=- · 28-06-2022 2:55am

Enjoyed the guilt-free relaxation, but glad the restrictions are thankfully a memory at this point in time. The knock on affects will last for a bit, which is far from ideal, but gota keep on truckin'

28-06-2022 2:57am

@job seeker

You would of been better off doing something productive with all that free time, mate 😄

Potential-Monke · 28-06-2022 7:58am

Judgement is in full swing, as expected.

pgj2015 · 28-06-2022 8:31am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119259881#Comment_119259881

"it cut through a huge chunk of my life"

Really? it was 2 years not 10.

snowstorm445 · 28-06-2022 9:13am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119260277#Comment_119260277

An exaggeration maybe but two years is pretty long for any life event given the magnitude of it and the changes we lived through.

rob316 · 28-06-2022 10:26am

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2 years of limbo is alot. Think of everything you would of done is those 2 years, alot of family and friends I didn't see.

KaneToad · 28-06-2022 10:29am

The restrictions didn't bother me in the slightest. But I know plenty who found them very difficult. I'm glad, for them, that they no longer have to deal with it.

murpho999 · 28-06-2022 10:29am

I miss that I now have to go to certain events like family birthdays or work socials which were not really missed during covid.

AMKC · 28-06-2022 10:45am

The only thing I miss from it was the cheap 20 dollar barrels of oil that meant buying oil was very very cheap. If only it would just fall to 60dollars or even 80dollars a barrel now I would be very happy hell even 100 dollars for a few months would be good. Its ridiculous prices at the moment. There is no doubt the pigs in that industry are earning a fortune and living it up. They could well afford to drop the price of it by 10 or 20 dollars a barrel and still be doing well.

Otherwise no I hated wearing the masks and having the buy them, the sanitiser is/was a killer on the hands expecially whatever some if the shops used.

So no I do not miss it.

All I want to see now is the prices of oil drop but its not looking good 😞

j2 · 28-06-2022 10:52am

You see some mad sh1t online but this takes the cake

Leg End Reject · 28-06-2022 10:52am

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2 years is a lot to miss out in your 20s when you want to be out every weekend and spend a lot of time with friends compared to mid 30s on.

AMKC · 28-06-2022 10:56am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119259910#Comment_119259910

Rural Ireland never looked as well as back then. Pandemic took out a few pubs here and there which is no bad thing. Can drive through town without having to look at cretins gawking out the pub door smoking fags.

Yes I agree totally. Nothing wrong with that at all except for the loss of jobs but otherwise ye. I for years ago I would have said good riddance. I am not a pub fan I hate them. The smell of drink is disgusting. The sooner its banned the better lol. Some hope.

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