Discussion Who else feels since covid things have significantly gotten worse

[Surai]

Its seems like somethings changed since then and not for better but for worse. And I just cant give up the thought

 

[dearlydeparted44]

I absolutely agree. I don't know what it was, but that event triggered something very rotten. Humans have hardcore regressed since then. Everything is just bad now. I can't see the future of this as being one I want to be a part of.

 

[locked*n*loaded]

Yeah, since Covid, for sure. I would, also, include since 9/11.

 

[22yearsbroken]

I miss those times... well i miss the lockdowns.. i didnt have to see people... I could go for a walk and it would be peacful and quiet just a stillness is was also before i became seriously ill aswell not covid related...
But i agree its like a lot built up tension has finally been released like a shaken up bottle of champagne.. nuat blowi g its top...

 

[Forever Sleep]

For me personally, yes. Weirdly, I was ok during covid. I'm so used to being alone that it didn't feel any different. I suppose I used to take myself off to visit places though, now and again. Now, I don't like taking the risk of going anywhere. I'm not around people to really know whether we've all changed but I get the impression we have.

It's more I feel that I've changed though. I'm not sure whether covid started it or not. Probably though. I've been struggling since my usual coping mechanism- being creative, started to fail. Covid was (obviously) terrible for the creative industries. It looked like I would have to give up for a while. Knowing that, I started to wean myself off it to make it less painful. Now that work's picked up, I just don't have the same enthusiasm and sense of fulfilment I used to. Seeing as that was one of the only pillars holding me up, it's so much harder now. So, I suppose in a round- about way, it messed me up.

 

[HopeToStay]

COVID was part 1 of my life's downfall. It wasn't enough to completely ruin it, but i lost most of the things that were good in my life. Savings, great job, relationship, plus i went from the age of 34 to 37 which felt like a significant age transition;.

I think like a lot of people i came out of COVID with the feeling i'd lost about 5 years of life - the 2 years of actual lockdown/isolation and the 3 or so years spent building my life up to the position it was in before COVID started. It was very hard to motivate myself after this, like in life's snakes and ladders, i'd just landed on a massive snake that brought me right back to the start of the board, but without the shine of youth to offset it. But at that stage i was just jaded rather than suicidal.

Unfortunately though over the last 18 months i've been going through a prolonged health crisis (part 2 of my life's downfall), heavily exacerbated by 6 months of medical gaslighting by my GP - something that forced me to go private even though i couldn't afford it and had no insurance. As a result all the savings i had left after COVID have completely gone. I'm not really sure if the health issue has fully been dealt with or if it has serious long term consequences - not all the symptoms can be accounted for and they really are worrying - but i am now too exhausted mentally and financially to keep pursuing it.

So yeah COVID unfortunately marked what feels like the beginning of the end of my life. If it has just been 6 months and things had gone back to as they were before it would have been ok, but in reality life started to spiral out of control and left me less able to deal with other things that have been thrown at me since.

I suspect i'm not the only person that feels this way.

 

[NoPoint2Life]

I'm in the US and at least for here I feel like it was simply because it made people more divisive because of all the arguing about wearing masks and vaccines. Then it just snowballed.

 

[idk3]

I'm in the US and at least for here I feel like it was simply because it made people more divisive because of all the arguing about wearing masks and vaccines. Then it just snowballed.

It's like that in my country too. Everything is so politicized globally now it seems, it's so toxic and hard to get away from.

Divide and conquer, I suppose.

 

[LetMeOut67]

I hear people saying things have got worse since COVID but I've lived a very solitary life for decades so I honestly can't really tell.
I don't know how we got through COVID but it seemed to pass quickly even though it obviously went on for a long time.
In the UK where I am you hear people saying things have got worse since Brexit. And in many ways they definitely have.
We're just drowning in toxicity and division and there seems to be no way out.

 

[Dejected 55]

Seems the same to me. More people might have noticed or come out of the woodwork... but society doesn't really seem worse behaved to me, it's just more people talk about it now maybe. But, that works both ways. More people notice and hate it... but more people are supporting it too.

 

[FoxSauce]

Yes. It has down hill from there, idk people have become more cold, caring about status and no matter how many people you have to step on.

But well I guess that's how things goes. Adapt or get left behind.

But I hope someone people don't be as cruel as the majority. Still is gonna get worse from there. Honestly I wish I could be proven wrong.