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[-] Soulphite@reddthat.com 39 points 1 day ago

Covid was the best of times for introverts.

[-] morto@piefed.social 28 points 1 day ago

I really miss the pandemic, but I can't tell this to people or they will think I'm a psychopath or something

[-] snooggums@piefed.world 24 points 1 day ago

I miss the disruption of social norms like people spreading out in public, remote work being recognized as productive for a large portion of the workforce, the reduced traffic, the reduced pollution, the acknowledgement of being sick deserving time off, and all of the other positive side effects. Not the pandemic itself, but that it showed a ton of social norms like commuting to work and obligatory social events people don't actually want to go to are not necessary for society to function.

At least a few fragments survived fhe overall reversion to b social norms.

[-] morto@piefed.social 3 points 18 hours ago

Exactly. All that and much more. For a brief moment of my existence, I felt like a normal person in a world made for people like me. Then, it all slowly fade away and I became the weird person again...

[-] inlandempire@jlai.lu 14 points 1 day ago

I never heard as many birds as I did during lockdowns 😭

I never saw as many celebrities with cooking shows.

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago

As an insomniac, I hate bird noise ...

Kinda like how insects got rarer in recent deades. I know that this is symptomatic of a very bad thing, but I sure don't miss having a lot of insects around.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago

" do I love you or the thought of you"

[-] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I felt so smug. Like "Welcome to my world, you assholes! How do you like being forced to live in a world that wasn't made for people like you?!". Unfortunately, it mostly did the opposite of teaching them more empathy.

[-] Taldan@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

And, unfortunately, far too many of them stayed, prompting the enshittification to accelerate

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 8 points 1 day ago

I work from home (and did long before covid). I used to joke that apparently something serious is going on, but I hadn't noticed.

[-] Nexz@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago

Our kid turned one when Covid hit. I love him so dearly but I can’t imagine how much funtimes I would’ve had if it happened a few years earlier.

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