When despite the isolation and difficulties and people being terribly ill and dying, there was this feeling of something good might come out of this great reset of society?
That feels very distant now.
I remember going to work on site Monday to Saturday because my employer dictated that we were essential and working remotely was or part time was out of question, we were given cheap masks and a carpet on the floor with a bit of sanitizer for our safety and the customers (several customers died… Especially the older ones that didn’t want to use masks, which were required to enter the place).
That is all I remember mate, ah and covering the turns of the people that they were forced to go home for months full paid by the country laws (no home office) because of higher risk due to medical reasons… Fun times.
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I didn’t get sick for years thanks to all the social norms changing, then we had a kid in daycare and I got sick all the time anyway.
Well, I do remember being worried about whether I could ever be within 2 metres of anyone else ever again…
That said, I have learned really that it takes an event that kills millions spread all over the world at essentially the same time for people and our legislatures to act. I thought nothing would ever get us to do anything seriously about the climate crisis but when we all stayed home for a bit we actually managed to reverse the upward trend in emissions for a time.
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