I could only BE so lucky. Lockdowns were a boon on both my partner’s and my life. I feel horrid for folks who were affected negatively but it was the best two years of our life, doing nothing but experiencing each other alone at home.
I'm sure everyone remembers
Submitted 5 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Nounka@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I mis those days to. Cleaner air, relax living,…
Hamartia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yhe lack of traffic in London was amazing
BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I loved lockdown. I had so much stuff in my chest freezer I got to use, we both lost a bunch of necessary weight due to actually following serving sizes. I beat like, three games in my backlog. Didn’t have to visit anybody, didn’t have to leave the house. I worked from home, and worked enough to pay off my student loans and buy two luxury watches. Plus donate to my alma mater’s fund for students stuck on campus. That was after my month long furlough, that is. Where I spent my time baking and cleaning and painting and every week I trimmed my facial hair into worse and worse creations to annoy my wife. We got an inflatable hot tub. I set up a project in the basement. We got a dog. It was one of the best years of my adult life.
Only downside is my grandma died.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
I’m so sorry about your gramma D: That absolutely sucks.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I thought it was great. The streets were clean, the skies were clear, the lines at the supermarket were short, traffic was minor… and despite what people claimed, you could go out for a walk whenever you wanted, at least around here.
I talked to my neighbors much more during lockdown than I do these days.
irish_link@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Unfortunately I actually fear this may happen with the rise of MPOX in the states. If the people in charge of HHS and the Pandemic Response team get gutted or mislead then I fear we will be back to COVID lockdown but for MPOX.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Don’t worry, they would probably make any effective controls illegal at the federal level so no knockdowns, masks or vaccines for the next pandemic in the US.
BlitzoTheOisSilent@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hell, they’ll probably make us pay back the economic impact payments we got during the last pandemic.
JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Don’t worry there won’t be a lockdown we’ll just die
irish_link@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Hahahaha….ha…………ha looks around in silent alarm
SquishyPandaDev@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Could still be for COVID. It’s still kicking around
irish_link@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ohh I know it’s still around but it’s it’s just endemic now and not pandemic. And we have a vaccine even if people don’t take it.
SuperIce@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not really worried about a Mpox pandemic as it only spreads by touch as far as we know. My concern is bird flu. We’re starting to see more cases of it infecting humans and if it turns into a pandemic is will likely be extremely deadly.
queermunist@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
Forget mpox, how about the bird flu in our dairy cows and the incoming administration wanting to promote raw milk?
ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Due to pandemic or martial law?
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yes
Squorlple@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nuclear winter actually
ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 5 months ago
At least i won’t have to patrol the Mojave…
kibiz0r@midwest.social 5 months ago
I read this as marital law
db2@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The way conservatives “think” it may as well be. American Taliban.
Dirac@lemmy.today 5 months ago
Nuclear pandemic initiated martial law iirc
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Definitely the latter with RFK Jr. in charge of healthcare.
beebarfbadger@lemmy.world 5 months ago
2025 obligatory alternatives to social distancing:
-Isolate in the office, just never go home (and keep working of course)
-Instead of not going to work, you can get a free brain worm at one of the new brain worm dispensaries
-ingest a lethal dose of Ivermectin
-Storm and plunder one of the official buildings on the list published on the Department of Patriotism’s website (must bring own gallows parts)
Noodle07@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Best anti immigration solution ever found: have a deadly unchecked pandemic
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Is this just a shitpost or is it a reference I don’t get?
The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The former
lugal@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
There was so much BS in the extended QAnon bubble (like all vaccinated people will die in September) that it felt like one of that. Sad how I can’t enjoy shitposts for what they are anymore. See what they have taken from us.
HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Evidence based prediction
soylentgreenenergy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ouch. That hurt me right in the climate change.
sit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Nobody (at least of the responsible people in Germany) was considering the psychological ramifications of lockdown.
So lockdown is not the best solution like the official places are claiming.
shucks@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Counterpoint: lockdowns were the best times of the last 5 years for people like myself. Everybody handles them differently.
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world 5 months ago
There was another lockdown?
silasmariner@programming.dev 5 months ago
Yeah, March 2025, don’t you remember? Plate armour was back in for a while.
Hamartia@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thank Christ we finally git away from the endless skinny jeans -> baggy jeans cycle.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I could never find chain mail that fit properly
ameancow@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Way back in '25, yeah, it wasn’t as big as the ones we had recently but they say the latest pandemic should start to clear up by next year. Hopefully it won’t be like the predictions they made in 2034.
tetris11@lemmy.world 5 months ago
back in '25
Me and some guys from school
We bought a van and we packed it hard:
Toilet rolls, masks, gasoline.
We thought we could resell it all to tards.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Not again
ryan213@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Americans aren’t getting any lockdowns in the next 4 years regardless of any pandemic.
douz0a0bouz@midwest.social 5 months ago
Oh we’re getting lockdowns alright, just not related to anything the WHO will recommend.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 5 months ago
Remember how ok conservatives were about the parts of covid you could be racist about? Yeah they’re more or less going to do that but just those parts and probably unrelated to a virus.
RandomVideos@programming.dev 5 months ago
What about the woke mind virus pandemic?
/s
ryan213@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Maybe the brain worm one.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
Oh we’ll get lockdowns
Anyone who’s even looks like the people of the country where the first case is identified will be locked down… in concentration camps.
BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It won’t be the pandemic it will be curfews when Trump enacts Marshall Law to combat the “dangerous brown people” in our cities.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
That Marshall guy sounds like a dick
humble_pete_digger@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I think GOP won’t go along
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
What’s the current meta for taking out an mrap or abrams?
Revan343@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The only nice thing in America is that states can make their own laws; when the bird flu pandemic starts, same states will institute rules to deal with it, they don’t need to wait for the federal government
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
This. Federalism is such a blessing
frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 5 months ago
Since you apparently were not around just a few short years ago, that’s controlled by the states.
ryan213@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
Oh wow, burn!
tetris11@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah but if the president himself is telling the people to not worry about it, what hope do the states have in enforcing it.
See: Boris Johnson vs The Lockdowns, and what effect that had on public.