On my side, the pandemic was fine, and was mostly fine to everyone I knew at the time. I suspect that's because France had very strict lockdowns for limited times, between which the world was kinda normal, and even infection averse people went out. It seems that in the US there was this dynamic of people more wary of infections locking down for years while the rest of people were out, and yeah I would expect many of my friends to have been much worse off if they had decided to stay inside for more than a year.
Sure, but I meant for the point to be broader than that. My Kiwi friend may have had a great time in 2020 driving around New Zealand in a van, with no Covid cases anywhere, but he couldn't leave the country. And now he lives in the US, where he's touched by the impacts of the pandemic all the time. I mentioned this in my two-year reflection post, but the shape of the community we share is utterly different than it would have been if the pandemic hadn't happened — pretty much none of the places you associate with the community existed before the pandemic; we had a whole different set.
So, yeah, maybe 2020 was okay and even basically normal, but that doesn't mean that the pandemic hasn't impacted the course of your life.
Yeah, I guess my life was changing so much all the time then, that it did not feel like a unexpected amount of change compared to earlier or later. It's sad that you and others who had a stable and ok life has a bunch of their support structures ripped off which never recovered.
The thing I wanted to express was that it was surprising to me that there are people like you and those you describe that have been put on a permanently different course. I did not know anyone for whom that was the case, and maybe that was because I did not listen. Thanks for sharing.
On my side, the pandemic was fine, and was mostly fine to everyone I knew at the time. I suspect that's because France had very strict lockdowns for limited times, between which the world was kinda normal, and even infection averse people went out. It seems that in the US there was this dynamic of people more wary of infections locking down for years while the rest of people were out, and yeah I would expect many of my friends to have been much worse off if they had decided to stay inside for more than a year.
Sure, but I meant for the point to be broader than that. My Kiwi friend may have had a great time in 2020 driving around New Zealand in a van, with no Covid cases anywhere, but he couldn't leave the country. And now he lives in the US, where he's touched by the impacts of the pandemic all the time. I mentioned this in my two-year reflection post, but the shape of the community we share is utterly different than it would have been if the pandemic hadn't happened — pretty much none of the places you associate with the community existed before the pandemic; we had a whole different set.
So, yeah, maybe 2020 was okay and even basically normal, but that doesn't mean that the pandemic hasn't impacted the course of your life.
Yeah, I guess my life was changing so much all the time then, that it did not feel like a unexpected amount of change compared to earlier or later. It's sad that you and others who had a stable and ok life has a bunch of their support structures ripped off which never recovered.
The thing I wanted to express was that it was surprising to me that there are people like you and those you describe that have been put on a permanently different course. I did not know anyone for whom that was the case, and maybe that was because I did not listen. Thanks for sharing.