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Regardless of what happened when, by whom, and where, it was fucking hilarious watching the world lose it’s shit because you couldn’t go to the bar randomly or

by helf 4y ago

Regardless of what happened when, by whom, and where, it was fucking hilarious watching the world lose it’s shit because you couldn’t go to the bar randomly or eat out. Lost. Their. Minds. wife and I happily read books and watched movies and played board games and went on hikes like usual

mitch3x3 4y ago
Key words there being “like usual”.
- saurik 4y ago
  Honestly, as soon as I saw "wife" I rolled my eyes... there were four or five months (from the end of 2020 to the beginning of 2021) where I only had a scant handful of in-person interactions with humans I "knew", and like, they weren't even friends... I just mean "people whose name I know and would notice if they were replaced by an NPC"; one of them was "the guy who lives in the park near my house". I have never been so lonely, and I am the kind of person who normally "hates people" a bit :(.
  - TurkishPoptart 4y ago
    My mother is still affected from this psyop. She doesn't even go out anymore. I try to encourage her to find a therapist but my words fall on deaf ears.
Justin_K 4y ago
Funny because I wanted to go to the beach like usual but it was closed and the police were issuing $500 dollar tickets if you stepped on the sand.
collyw 4y ago
We couldn't leave our apartments except to go to the supermarket for over two months. Followed by another 6 months of absurd rules in winter 2020/2021. You could eat in a restaurant but only until 3pm. You couldn't go outside after 10pm. You needed a mask to walk down the street but could take it off to eat. The fact that everyone just complied with such ridiculousness without question is why I lost my mind.
- throwawayfear 4y ago
  Don’t forget who supported those arbitrary controls on your lives.
BrotherBisquick 4y ago
I didn't mind not being able to eat out at restaurants. I did mind redditors wishing death on people who expressed healthy skepticism about the government.
- hotpotamus 4y ago
  I think investing any amount of emotion into what Redditors think is a mistake. And I say that as someone who rather likes Reddit.
- tristanbvk 4y ago
  I knew some people that were so darn hell bent on this stuff they coulen't see clearly. Including a friend (ex friend) who studied medicine and believed in force vaccinations. Now, I am pro vaccine but my lord what sort of medicine student would forcefully make someone take something. Then the lockdowns, the woes endured. It was a terrible time, nothing good of it came. Luckily there was some good government defiance here, positives of living in a 3rd world place like South Africa was that if you lived far away from city centers you could get what you needed. Even when they tried banning certain items.
pkphilip 4y ago
Different people had very different experiences of the lockdown. Many suffered tremendously - unable to get to work, being too far from friends and family and not being able to get help etc. Clearly, you didn't have to go through the sort of problems some faced. That is not because they were stupid.
gorbypark 4y ago
I sometimes wonder how the US would have reacted to a Spain-style lockdown. I somewhat happily watched movies and played board games as well, but was legally unable to leave the house for three months. It really sucked as we lived in a tiny studio apartment and it was hard to do any excessive at all.
goldenchrome 4y ago
Freedom of movement is a human right, and so is freedom of bodily autonomy. Both of these rights were being attacked with increasing and seemingly unending force. It became a moral issue very early on and it wasn’t clear where it would end at all. If rights were being stripped away for no good reason, then one might assume that any of their rights could be taken away on a whim. In 2020 I looked at the data and decided that it wasn’t important to wear a mask. Do you remember how those people were treated in 2020? Now look at the covid infection rates today—they’re in the same ballpark as they were in 2020. And yet, most people refuse to wear a mask now. I knew it wasn’t rational back in 2020 and yet I faced increasing aggression from my neighbors, my workplace, and my government for living my best understanding of the truth. Now almost three years on, people have decided that the truth has changed in my favor and I’m no longer insane. Can you see how someone who thought the lockdowns were immoral would have been under great stress during the last few years?
- mgoetzke 4y ago
  People in 2022 have had the chance to get vaccinated though. So not wearing a mask 2020 is not the same to them as in 2022. Unless you believe vaccines do not help and surgeon's do not need to mask up either for any reason.
  - goldenchrome 4y ago
    That’s a reasonable argument and all I can say is that I always try to do what’s right in my own heart. We will see who’s going to hell in the end.
adammarples 4y ago
I wonder how you would have been laughing if you didn't have a wife, and weren't allowed to leave the house, hike, or meet people. Probably wouldn't have been quite as funny, but I'm glad you had a good laugh at everyone else's experience.
tristanbvk 4y ago
Reading is good and all, but I enjoy my freedom to go out and touch grass. Those with immune deficiencies, I know some - they are my friends, have it completely in their being and right to stay at home if needs be. Don't let the government make everyone suffer just because some will.

by helf 4y ago

mitch3x3 4y ago

Key words there being “like usual”.

saurik 4y ago
Honestly, as soon as I saw "wife" I rolled my eyes... there were four or five months (from the end of 2020 to the beginning of 2021) where I only had a scant handful of in-person interactions with humans I "knew", and like, they weren't even friends... I just mean "people whose name I know and would notice if they were replaced by an NPC"; one of them was "the guy who lives in the park near my house". I have never been so lonely, and I am the kind of person who normally "hates people" a bit :(.
- TurkishPoptart 4y ago
  My mother is still affected from this psyop. She doesn't even go out anymore. I try to encourage her to find a therapist but my words fall on deaf ears.

Justin_K 4y ago

Funny because I wanted to go to the beach like usual but it was closed and the police were issuing $500 dollar tickets if you stepped on the sand.

collyw 4y ago

We couldn't leave our apartments except to go to the supermarket for over two months. Followed by another 6 months of absurd rules in winter 2020/2021. You could eat in a restaurant but only until 3pm. You couldn't go outside after 10pm. You needed a mask to walk down the street but could take it off to eat. The fact that everyone just complied with such ridiculousness without question is why I lost my mind.

throwawayfear 4y ago
Don’t forget who supported those arbitrary controls on your lives.

BrotherBisquick 4y ago

I didn't mind not being able to eat out at restaurants. I did mind redditors wishing death on people who expressed healthy skepticism about the government.

hotpotamus 4y ago
I think investing any amount of emotion into what Redditors think is a mistake. And I say that as someone who rather likes Reddit.
tristanbvk 4y ago
I knew some people that were so darn hell bent on this stuff they coulen't see clearly. Including a friend (ex friend) who studied medicine and believed in force vaccinations. Now, I am pro vaccine but my lord what sort of medicine student would forcefully make someone take something. Then the lockdowns, the woes endured. It was a terrible time, nothing good of it came. Luckily there was some good government defiance here, positives of living in a 3rd world place like South Africa was that if you lived far away from city centers you could get what you needed. Even when they tried banning certain items.

pkphilip 4y ago

Different people had very different experiences of the lockdown. Many suffered tremendously - unable to get to work, being too far from friends and family and not being able to get help etc. Clearly, you didn't have to go through the sort of problems some faced. That is not because they were stupid.

gorbypark 4y ago

I sometimes wonder how the US would have reacted to a Spain-style lockdown. I somewhat happily watched movies and played board games as well, but was legally unable to leave the house for three months. It really sucked as we lived in a tiny studio apartment and it was hard to do any excessive at all.

goldenchrome 4y ago

Freedom of movement is a human right, and so is freedom of bodily autonomy. Both of these rights were being attacked with increasing and seemingly unending force. It became a moral issue very early on and it wasn’t clear where it would end at all. If rights were being stripped away for no good reason, then one might assume that any of their rights could be taken away on a whim. In 2020 I looked at the data and decided that it wasn’t important to wear a mask. Do you remember how those people were treated in 2020? Now look at the covid infection rates today—they’re in the same ballpark as they were in 2020. And yet, most people refuse to wear a mask now. I knew it wasn’t rational back in 2020 and yet I faced increasing aggression from my neighbors, my workplace, and my government for living my best understanding of the truth. Now almost three years on, people have decided that the truth has changed in my favor and I’m no longer insane. Can you see how someone who thought the lockdowns were immoral would have been under great stress during the last few years?

mgoetzke 4y ago
People in 2022 have had the chance to get vaccinated though. So not wearing a mask 2020 is not the same to them as in 2022. Unless you believe vaccines do not help and surgeon's do not need to mask up either for any reason.
- goldenchrome 4y ago
  That’s a reasonable argument and all I can say is that I always try to do what’s right in my own heart. We will see who’s going to hell in the end.

adammarples 4y ago

I wonder how you would have been laughing if you didn't have a wife, and weren't allowed to leave the house, hike, or meet people. Probably wouldn't have been quite as funny, but I'm glad you had a good laugh at everyone else's experience.

tristanbvk 4y ago

Reading is good and all, but I enjoy my freedom to go out and touch grass. Those with immune deficiencies, I know some - they are my friends, have it completely in their being and right to stay at home if needs be. Don't let the government make everyone suffer just because some will.