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Pandemic bad but some of it has been cool. In those early days I rode a bike on roads that were never possible to ride on. I’ve never seen them so empty and it felt like one of those post-apocalyptic video games. Eerie but also serene. In some small way I wish to experience that moment again. Also it was wild to experience a whole society just up and stop meeting in person. Takeout and delivery became the only way to experience food? Remote work just became a thing overnight? Concerts, movies, musicals all just canceled like that? John Krasinski had an online talk show? Hard to overstate how nuts it all was.
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Jul 24, 2022 05:42
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It was really funny when Trump got covid.
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Jul 24, 2022 07:04
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I learnt to cut my own hair. Never liked going to hair dressers. Now I can give myself a passable trim in like 10 minutes.
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Jul 24, 2022 07:09
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Ziggy Smalls posted:It was really funny when Trump got covid.
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Jul 24, 2022 07:17
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It improved a lot of people's vocabulary by at least a couple of words.
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Jul 24, 2022 07:36
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Vegetable posted:John Krasinski had an online talk show? Sick poo poo
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Jul 24, 2022 08:19
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all of the people with bad political views outed themselves
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Jul 24, 2022 08:31
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Doctors and nurses that were having affairs had a ready made excuse for coming home late.
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Jul 24, 2022 08:46
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A bunch of really lovely hicks died or at least have injured lungs. Also I finally had time to digitize all my old CDs, my life was never quite complete without a complete rip of the Harvey Danger album.
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Jul 24, 2022 08:55
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Pathologic hoarding of toilet paper became socially acceptable. It's like i can finally breathe
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Jul 24, 2022 09:03
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People didn't wonder why I self-isolate.
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Jul 24, 2022 09:10
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I didn't have to choose between putting on makeup or getting asked if I'm sick.
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Jul 24, 2022 09:16
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nobody gives me the third degree for buying pounds of robotussin
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Jul 24, 2022 09:25
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 Sadly didn't seem to bring the prices down much if at all
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* Social security can now keep on chugging for a few more years now all the old expensive people are dead * Exodus of workers from the labor market shifts power back into the hands of labor a tiny bit (watch Biden start a wage and hiring freeze, lmao) * It's still up in the air whether a sterilizing vaccine can be made for coronaviruses, and if not, companies like Pfizer and Moderna make for great additions to your stock portifolio * Watching China dominate the Olympic games for the next fifty years is going to be a treat, if they can continue suppressing outbreaks like they have so far * If China fails to suppress an outbreak, manufacturing will be hosed forever, possibly delaying the climate crisis at the cost of society reverting back to the 1800's * No matter how hard you gently caress up in life, there's always the comforting thought that at least you're not as big as a gently caress-up as Tony Three-Plagues
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Jul 24, 2022 09:52
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As a young essential non-medical solo worker I got tons of overtime and never got sick, quarantine times was awesome
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Jul 24, 2022 10:15
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my balls got a lot bigger from four doses of vaccine. i had to buy all new pants because they wouldn't fit in my old ones. chicks dig my humongous testicles.
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Jul 24, 2022 10:30
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It's a good thing it's over once and forever and we never have to adjust how we live 
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Jul 24, 2022 10:35
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years of mastering hermit life finally paid off got to drive to work with no traffic for a while many people said "gently caress it" and stopped doing things that suck
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Jul 24, 2022 10:40
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I have a form of face-blindness, and facemasks were awesome. Perfect get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Jul 24, 2022 10:44
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I have had near crippling chronic right eye pain since mid 2017. Found out thanks to the pandemic that if I wear a mask I can blow warm humid air directly into my eye, which soothes it more than any drop I’ve tried outside of lidocaine. If I’m wearing a mask, there’s a 90% chance it’s because my eye feels like it’s on fire, and blowing my own breath on it is the only thing keeping me from jumping off a bridge at that current moment.
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Jul 24, 2022 11:07
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I am now completely justified when I say I don’t breathe around fat people, whereas before I was thought to be a snob
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Jul 24, 2022 11:12
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AHH F/UGH posted:I am now completely justified when I say I don’t breathe around fat people, whereas before I was thought to be a snob 
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Jul 24, 2022 11:30
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Jul 24, 2022 11:54
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A lot of cynical misanthropes had their entire world view validated.
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Jul 24, 2022 12:00
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I always wished we could wear masks without looking crazy like they do in japan, and now we can
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I started dating a girl in the summer of the first wave and now we live together
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MrQwerty posted:I started dating a girl in the summer of the first wave and now we live together Same except we started 2 weeks before things started shutting down and now we're engaged Also I bought a bidet to alleviate TP use and I'll never look back
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The whole pandemic helped me to get rid of a lot of toxic people in my life, I moved to a different country , have a amazing job and I'm actually happy for the first time in decades 
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ElectricSheep posted:Same except we started 2 weeks before things started shutting down and now we're engaged We have to take care of some stuff like our living situation and etc. but I'm pretty sure I'm going to marry her at some point, COVID lockdown really brought out everyone's worst self and if that was hers and that was mine, might as well. also goddamn it I want a bidet, throw it on the pile
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Jul 24, 2022 14:12
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They let me WFH and Ill be damned by God before going back to making GBS threads in a public bathroom 5 days a week.
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Jul 24, 2022 14:15
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Social distancing is awesome because gross clueless people are no longer breathing down my neck and pushing their bodies into my back as I wait in line. Even before Covid that was unacceptable. Give me some space!  Also, people wash their hands more, myself included. At least, I hope they do.
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Jul 24, 2022 14:46
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People pay good money for used masks if you don't mention that they're used
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Jul 24, 2022 15:02
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It's been awful However for my own amusement every time I go on an errand especially like to a grocery store I always notice how much it's like the beginning of a apocalyptic zombie type movie
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Jul 24, 2022 15:04
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I played a lot of video game.
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Jul 24, 2022 15:06
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Private catering and super yacht charters really went belly up which was good for two reasons: 1. I pivoted careers away from chef work and am using my degree 2. Lol rich people
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I got paid the same amount of money to do the same amount of "real" work, but not have to drive into the office every day. Once our State's (dumb as poo poo) outdoor park closures were lifted it was one of the best summers I've ever had, I went out hiking, camping, or dirt bike riding every day I didn't have to work. My small family (mom and brother's family) was part of my "bubble" and I spent more time with them then I had in well over a decade. None of us ever got sick, and we all remained employed throughout. It was one of the best summers of my life and I still feel a little guilty about that.
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