Mentions (13)
"Lose a good portion of your 'youth' and college years to covid. Half of your peers have probably never felt the touch of the opposite gender because of that"
"I feel like ever since covid, nothing seems to work right. Anytime I go into a doctors office or an airport or the post office, walmart, whatever, there's always some issue. I'm talking things like understaffing, a computer system being down, a shortage of some sort, etc."
"I really believe people since COVID have lost their ability to have respect towards workers. People have also lost any sort of concept of rules and expectations to be a participating member of society."
"It's pretty much known that Covid came from a lab. All those people who claimed it was some racist gotcha moment on the evil China man are nowhere to be found now. It's insane that people thought it came from a wet market instead of a research facility that studied coronaviruses."
"This fundamentally changed everything. Think about the defining points of the 2020s; TikTok completely dominating life, inflation, poor job market, increased polarization, worldwide mental health crisis, etc. Everything is linked to covid. Even the whole BLM riots which sprung America into a level o"
"Not to sound like a sociopath, but I really don't get why so many governments effectively suspended normal society once it became clear that the virus had a very low mortality rate, was "only" a risk to the morbidly obese or very old, and that younger people (40 and lower) were virtually immune. Why"
"When covid first appeared, I don't think most of us realized at the time that the world would never go back to the way things were before. We all have to come to terms with this. However, the more time goes by after 2020, the less I can remember of the old world. It brings me a deep sense of melanch"
"Mild cases of COVID are associated with a 3 point reduction in IQ. Severe cases up to 10 points. On a population level, that has noticeable effects."
"Incredibly long but fascinating and potentially terrifying read about American funding of haphazard and dangerous research in Wuhan. Definitely not a smoking gun, but concerning none the less. I'm really surprised that lab leak theory is still seen as hair brained and a conspiracy."
"From covid to Ukraine and Gaza to this insane election, I don't think the global geopolitical system has been this unstable since the cold war (in some areas, since WW2)."
"I think for a lot of cushy middle class types, the pandemic will have been their first encounter with actual danger and disruption. It was a real, though slim, possibility covid could've just killed them. Empty shelves, hospitals carting dead people out in droves. If you'd lived a life where nothing"
"Then March 2020 happened and my school went online for almost 2 years. All the progress I made in improving my confidence and making friends was erased. Also became fat as fuck. Was 19 when it happened, almost 22 when our last lockdowns (omicron) ended. Now I'm 24 with no close friends, no dating pr"
"I've been working in the city again since last summer and probably this month is the first time I've seen the sorts of absurd volumes of people that were seen pre-covid."