"Trust in science, medicine, evidence-based thinking and decision-making, and rational thinking in general.Contrarian dipshits effectively leveraged social media and other outlets to exploit the fear and panic of the pandemic to push their chaotic nonsense, and we have not yet recovered from that. And we may never."
"My desire to be around people. Nirvana was right .. y'all are stupid and contagious."
"Human decency and common sense.I was a restaurant host at the time, and shortly after we reopened, I was cussed out by a Karen in front of her entire family because due to fire safety regulations, we weren't allowed to push tables together on the outdoor patio. Her son literally had to grab her and pull her away.We also had more people thrown out of the restaurant that summer for being disrespectful to staff than any other year that I worked there."
"Affordable housing / rentals.
Affordable goods and services.
Affordable foods.
Affordable shipping costs."
"Activities for patients in psychiatric hospitals.Before covid we had animators, zootherapy, a greenhouse, a cafe run by patients, volunteers, special guests, bbq, etc.Now every unit has 1 TV. And that's it. Covid saw the extras get cut due to social distancing, then they realized they could save money. And nothing came back.It's effectively a prison but some people don't get out."
"Hope. Not to sound bleak but if a pandemic wasn't enough to unite people behind a single goal for the betterment of everyone, then I don't know what would be."
"In person customer service. Everything is self check out or help now. or you are talking to an ai bot for hours over the phone."
"Sanity. Everyone lost their goddamned minds and there’s no sign they are coming back. We’re a lost society."
"Civility among humans."
"Paper, sort of.My job went 100% digital during the lockdown, and will remain digital for the foreseeable future.What's funny is that we learned we can do 100% of our job working from home, but recently they made us all go back to the office just to do what we were already doing at home, except now under bright fluorescents!"
"24-hour anything. Pharmacies, grocery/supermarket chains, etc."
"My full face of makeup.Pre-Covid, I used to spend 20-30 minutes every morning putting on a full face of makeup before work. When we had to start wearing masks I stopped wearing makeup altogether. The masks came off, and now I can't bring myself to waste so much precious time in the morning. Now it's just a bit of mineral face powder, eyeliner, mascara and a touch of tinted lip balm, and I'm good to go."
"Fully-staffed restaurants. They figured out they could run w a skeleton crew and never looked back."
"Full time remote work. I had been remote since 2017, but after the pandemic, my company used RTO as an excuse to get everybody back into the office."
"The casual, spontaneous nature of pre-pandemic social gatherings."
"Empathy."
"Not acting like a completely entitled a*****e in public. "
"My sense of smell."
"Infection control in hospitals.If you worked in a hospital prior to COVID and you went into an isolation room without the proper PPE it was a big deal. Your boss or your co-workers would say something to you immediately and you'd probably get written up. During the pandemic there simply wasn't enough PPE to go around so you just did the best you could with what you had. It was unsafe and we all knew it. The unspoken attitude in 2025 is that if infection control didn't matter in the middle of a pandemic it doesn't matter during flu season or when your patient has a prior history of MRSA. The only thing that still puts the fear of god into healthcare workers is bedbugs or scabies."
"My ability to communicate with other human beings."
"McDonalds breakfast all day."
"Decent flight options. Connections everywhere now!"
"Zoom fatigue and burnout.Before the pandemic, Zoom was something you’d do for work, but now it’s like this unavoidable “virtual” hangover.Even though we’re back in person, many people are still feeling burned out from too many online meetings and interactions, kind of like being permanently “on call.”"
"I find that in a lot of restaurants and fast food places here, they had taken away self serve salt & pepper packets, serviettes and condiments. To this day, they remain hidden behind the counter instead of readily accessible and you always have to wait and ask someone to get them for you."
"Watching new movies at home instead of the theater."
"I don’t know if everybody feels the same way, but during and since the pandemic, I could never eat a piece of birthday cake that somebody has blown out candles on. Come to think about it. I can’t believe that I ever even did that before, and I’m not even a clean freak. My family still continues to do this. I don’t make a big fuss, but I also don’t have a piece of cake lol."
"We’ve lost dancing."
"Shredded pepperjack cheese.i wish i were joking. where i live, it ran out like many other things, and simply never came back. i live in a town that has a publix on every corner, plus a couple winn dixie locations......no shredded pepperjack cheese of any brand. you can buy a block or slices, but no shredded.weirdest d**n thing."
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Citations or STFU
Pay attention to the F'ing news or STFU
The silver lining of it was the exposure of liars and corruption - as you listed.
This is exactly what the post is about. No, there is still no evidence the virus was manmade. It's a possibility, but we still don't know. Yes, they were guessing and at least in my country they were very open with that. 'we don't know exactly, we're still doing research, but better safe than sorry'. When they found out there was no need for the rules, they were lifted.
and the corruption of the leaders has nothing to do with science. In the most countries I am aware of, people keep voting for the most corrupt person, like in the US, so there's that
"My family"
listed.
Netherlands btw.