Five years on, what did COVID teach you?

10am isn’t too early to have a beer and it’s ok to spend your kids shoe money on it.

The main thing I learned is a few people I know are completely unhinged and have no sense of balance or ability to rates risk. One went into conspiracy theory mode, the other is still going around convincing themselves that there’s a huge risk all the time - both are lost in opposite ends of largely American online bubbles, and both are incredibly convinced that there right and everyone else is wrong,

Other than that I think it was just a very strange time. It definitely made me rethink work - life balance, but I think those lessons wore off some people much faster than others.

I learned that far too many people:

1. Are manky bastards
2. Are anti-authority
3. Never learn

That you can get really cheap holidays during a Pandemic.

As an immigrant, pre Covid I prioritsed integration, doing things with and getting to know locals.

Covid taught me that was bollox: with few exceptions, as soon as they didn't need me to do stuff (arts activities etc closed), no one wanted to know me.

For me personally Covid and the lockdown were good. I was deeply unhappy in the job I was in for many years, I was 56 in 2020, I knew my age was against me and I was finding it difficult to see a way out. My mental health was really starting to suffer so when the company went belly up a few months into the first lockdown, I got a substantial redundancy which gave me plenty of much needed breathing space until something else turned up and it did turn up eventually, a very different sort of work which TBH I couldn't have seen myself doing pre Covid but I'm thriving. I'd never been the sort of person that dealt well with change but Covid foisted it on me and I've come out the other end in a much better place, so I suppose it's taught me not to fear change.

That a lot of people are boring and found out they were boring once they couldn't self identify through their jobs and their social media, where travel and pintrest quality pictures of small plates or travels were taken from them.

Point in case, they all started making sourdough bread and watching Tiger King. Was desperate to watch really. Here you are being given this unique opportunity to step away from modern living for a while and have time for yourself. And you can't even think past what everyone else is doing.

It just made me realise that a lot of people never leave the juvenile mindset of keeping up with their peers.

I'm not saying take up wood work now all of a sudden, but I would have thought a lot of us could think past doing something better than a sourdough starter.

yeah yeah yeah. If they ever do that again….i’m done taking the shot and ain’t taking no more…. You’d be a great one to call on the day when needed

They were right though. The vaccine is causing a lot of side effects in people that Covid would have been a mild cold had they got it

2018 you sure about that i remember one this year. My take was to stay of social media sites as much as possible

And before someone mentions it yes I am on one now but maybe not too much longer