• Sabata11792@kbin.social
    662·
    1 year ago

    I liked lock down. It made me feel normal and accepted for being a shut-in for once. Now, I’m just a loser again.

  • candybrie@lemmy.world
    36·
    1 year ago

    Jan 6th

    Vaccines!

    Party all summer. Oh wait, variants.

    I personally got my PhD and moved states to start at my new job. So it was a busy year for me.

  • Chetzemoka@startrek.website
    351·
    1 year ago

    If you worked in healthcare, there was a pretty clear delineation. We got vaccines and people stopped fucking dying so much.

    I opened 2021 to one of our chronic dialysis patients getting admitted for Covid, so severely short of breath they needed to go to the critical care stepdown unit, and I thought "this is it " By the time I was able to arrive at the hospital to run their dialysis, this person was already off oxygen and up walking around their room.

    Come to find out, they had been vaccinated. I’m told that was one of the first people in the State of Massachusetts who got Covid after being vaccinated, and the difference in severity was so dramatic I’ll never forget it.

    That and movie theaters reopening are the only reasons I remember 2021. It was just a lot less scary even though I was still working like crazy.

    • Globulart@lemmy.world
      72·
      1 year ago

      It still blows my mind that so many people thought (and in many cases still do) that the vaccine had some nefarious purpose.

      I remember 2021 mainly for arguing with morons online about it.

    • thorbot@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      But like, did you actually have any network intrusions? Because I recall the hoopla and pushing scripts, but never once actually heard of anyone being actively exploited other than a few big players

      • ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.comEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Nope, none of our customers had, because the application wasn’t webfacing at all but good luck explaining that to a scared shitless CTO/CIO in their late 50s…

        • thorbot@lemmy.world
          1·
          1 year ago

          True. The hype around it was nuts. So many of our vendors sent out multiple emails about it

  • MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world
    251·
    1 year ago

    Pandemic was the best time of my life. Everyone I know(except for one guy) hated it. Me and my buddy enjoyed the shit out of it.

    • Didn’t have to commute.
    • Saved money on home cooking.
    • Meetings started on time and you didn’t have to walk to and from them.
    • If I needed to take delivery of something, no problem, my home is my office.
    • Got a 5 minute break? Great, filled the washing machine up and got some laundry done.
    • All communication was in email or on chats, making everything said super easy to track.
    • Didn’t have to meet people. By far the best thing for me.
    • thorbot@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 year ago

      Oh man we saved SO much money not eating out, even still doing curbside pickup once in a while we saved thousands

    • aidan@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Same I loved it, but that was because it let me skip the last year and a half of highschool essentially.

  • Agent641@lemmy.world
    201·
    1 year ago

    Y’all remember the early days if covid when we were buying toilet paper and accepting imminent death?

    I most vividly remember the Italian experience where some guys sister died of covid at home, and they were just like “wrap the body with a sheet and leave it somewhere safe, we’ll come get it in a week if youre still alive then.”

    I remember the early reports of covid surviving for 5 days on surfaces, and thats when I was like “Whelp, we’re fucked.”