I was reading something, and trying to remember how I spend many months of COVID… I could no longer recollect. For context, For the last 12 years I work from home, and very little I step outside the house.
So wondering is that me or we all move on.
What’s the question?
DB2
I took it to mean the thread title, but Kingran should probably clarify since it appears that the question may not be clear.
Pete
Is the question “what did you do in the plague, daddy?”
Being retired, I stayed in the bunker, emerging once a week for groceries.
In early 21, Beaumont health system announced they would start providing vax shots, drawing from the people already enrolled in their patient web site. The news reported, within a day, that Beaumont’s web site crashed from the load of people trying to enroll. My GP works for Beaumont, so I was already enrolled. I soon received an e-mail from Beaumont saying, if I wanted a covid jab, verify my contact information on their web site, to be added to the pool they selected people from. I did so, as the initial surge of people trying to enroll had subsided. A few weeks later, I received an e-mail inviting me to make an appointment for a jab, which I did.
Steve
I started a practice that I called “Armageddon store walks.” During the worst of the restrictions, people in my area were still allowed outside for exercise and for groceries. So I combined the two.
Within about a two mile walk of my house, there are several large retailers, such as Costco, Target, Kroger, Walgreens, Meijer, Home Depot, and Menards. All of those stores carry essential goods, some of which were in short supply during the worst of the pandemic.
I would walk to one or more of those stores virtually every day, and if they had an essential, short-supply item that we needed and that we were running low on, I would buy it. Because of that, we never completely ran out of toilet paper. Even with that daily vigilance, though, I can remember a few times where we had to carefully ration it to not run out.
Regards,
-Chuck
My wife and I retired when Covid started up and it was the best thing we ever did. Your poll is a little confusing Kingran. Yes it is just you or Yes I agree i do not remember?
Daily store visits increases the probability of catching the thing. I walk a two mile loop around the hood for exercise in the summer, and pedal an exercise bike at home in the winter. So heading out had one objective: score some bachelor chow.
Steve…as it happened, I had bought a 24 roll package of TP in early March 2020, a week or two before the nutter stampede started. That package lasted over a year.
“I would walk to one or more of those stores virtually every day,”
I live close to some great hiking trails, so I was out in the woods almost daily, really had few worries about being on a wide, 2-track hiking trail and catching covid from anybody walking on the other side of the trail.
Do still have a vivid memory of a young Mom with her maybe 2 year old walking past me on the trail, early on in the lockdown. We chatted for a minute from about 15 feet away, and remember feeling happy about other people getting out in the woods, safely. Her little one was just all ear to ear grin, I’m thinking he had been cooped up for awhile and was luving the woods and the fresh air, and he was getting a kick out of the stranger ( me ) waving and smiling at him from across the trail.
But as far as 1 of the Ads being run: Are you better off now than 4 years ago ? It is a resounding HECK YEAH we’re better off now than 4 years ago. What an idiotic Ad.
Do you remember COVID or may have some vague recollection, but mostly you moved on.
Talk about being picky. LOL
Yes… or Yes… 
Yes, I remember. And yes, I’ve moved on.
I’ve been working from home since 1985, easy to do when self employed. It has no bearing on going outside except avoiding time wasting daily commutes.
The Captain
How do you not remember going through COVID? That’s a once in a lifetime kind of event. A worldwide pandemic with its inherent confusion, worry, concern, fatalism is not the kind of thing that people would forget.
Do I remember all of the day to day stuff? Of course not. But the feelings of the time, yes, absolutely. The life changes? Yes - some of which are still with us today.
Frankly, if you can’t remember the event and you were an adult at the time, I’d be concerned. I’ll make exception for those who spent much of the time in a smokey, plant-based haze. 
Hopefully, most folks have moved on, but not forgotten the impact it had on our lives and our civilization.
–Peter
Not only have husband and I not forgotten, we have made some of our changes from that time permanent, such as always having HQ face masks with us and putting them on quickly in any sort of congealing crowd (corridors and lines of people…). It also made it crystal clear to me that racism, sexual fearfulness (misogyny, homophobia, insane religious teachings), and many forms of poverty and wealth cultures seem to breed stupid heedlessness.
I have never had the damn disease and mean to keep it that way. As a positive side effect, since that time I have not had a cold or the flu….
d fb
Anyone who has a “vague recollection” wasn’t paying attention at the time.
For a while streets were deserted. Your could drive through a red light at high noon and no one would notice. Shelves were barren, particularly of toilet paper and paper towels, but also of lots of foodstuffs which were easily replenished in better times. Costco had giant snake-lines of pallets to guide only a limited number into the store at any given time, and supermarkets opened early for seniors and other vulnerable populations.
No, if you have only a vague recollection then either you were in the cohort that was in denial or you are suffering memory loss now, and go see a doctor. That there may not be long lasting effects on most people is not a surprise. The people who went through the privations of World War II burst out in the ensuing decade to become the greatest consumer generation in history.
Those who went through the upheavals of culture, politics, and protest in the ‘60’s have gone on to become traditional Democrats, or perhaps Republicans, to have 2.4 children, and to pay taxes and join corporate America in huge numbers.
And that’s the thing. While there are (sometimes wild) swings, the culture moves on, so far - ever forward. From the Roaring 20’s to the Great Depression to WWII, through the placid 50’s and turbulent 60’s, from gas lines to Reagan, there are few lasting scars. The pandemic is one we will all remember, but society’s institutional memory will be scarcely affected. Supply chains are back. The stores are full. The economy is robust. The dead are still dead. Life goes on.
Thanks everyone for sharing your views. Appreciate it.
Covid remembers me. I just got a call from the Portuguese health service asking if i wanted this year’s Covid and flu shots. I declined.
The Captain
My Mexican HIV health center gave me an opportunity to opt out of covid and flu shots, when I came to pick up my marvelous HIV drugs, and also gave me mandatory (or leave Mexico) battery of STD, tuberculosis, hepatitis, and I lost track of how many other tests.
I gladly rolled up my sleave for everything.
d fb
Sure do, especially since my wife has come down with it for the 2nd time in 2 years; whatever variant this is has laid her out for almost a week. Back to masking in the house, sleeping in another bedroom, monitoring fever & congestion levels… s!itballs.