Subtle but effective

[Astrid]

How have the pandemic and government measures to control it impacted you personally, if I can ask, @Estrid?

Being a "trust fund kid", there was no financial problem.
The various restrictions have been a nuisance.

It would be utterly shameful for me to whine,
considering what other family members have been through.


ETA, I got covid. It was like a mild cold.

 

[Paidiske]

I wonder if other people where you are might use stronger language than "nuisance" to describe their experience.

I was very fortunate, in lots of ways. But things like having to move interstate during lockdown went a bit beyond nuisance; and I can see, for example, ongoing anxiety particularly in my daughter and other young children.

 

[Astrid]

I wonder if other people where you are might use stronger language than "nuisance" to describe their experience.

I was very fortunate, in lots of ways. But things like having to move interstate during lockdown went a bit beyond nuisance; and I can see, for example, ongoing anxiety particularly in my daughter and other young children.

It was, has been quite a hardship for many people.
Note my earlier comment about a people who have
long endured horrific hardships and learned resilience.

" The West" in general is so accustomed to luxury as
to lose all perspective about a bump in the road.

 

[timothyu]

Anybody experience fear, even if fleetingly?

 

[gaara4158]

Anybody experience fear, even if fleetingly?

I wouldn’t characterize my caution as fear-based. I have concerns for self-preservation and the well-being of my family and friends, and for the regular functioning of society at large, but fear doesn’t play a big role in my decisions. If things start going south significantly that’ll be another story.

 

[Paidiske]

Anybody experience fear, even if fleetingly?

Fear in what sense? Fear of the virus? Not particularly. (Although I am grateful for vaccinations).

Edit: I should amend that. Fear of the virus for myself, not particularly. But when I understood the early death rates in other parts of the world, fear of mass death here, yeah, I did experience that. I remember talking to funeral directors very early on, and them explaining to me that like some other places, we just did not even have the mortuary space for that kind of death rate, and if the virus came here before we were ready, we might also be looking at hastily dug mass graves and the like. Now that was chilling.

Fear of the impact that the whole thing was having on our communities? Much more so. Whatever some may think about the lack of resilience of the decadent west ( ) I could see a great deal of harm. And trying to pastor a community (two, actually, given that I moved partway through) through the whole thing was... intense.

 

[timothyu]

Fear in what sense?

Fear in general. The great conformer.