27 years old, about 5 months left of that before turning 28. I see myself as a pretty resilient person, but it’s starting to be a bit long. My roommate met someone after the first lockdown (march-may), and decided to move in with her in September, so I’ve been living by myself in an awesome (lucky) apartment since. I’ve played a crazy amount of time of World of Warcraft between April and December, as I’ve been out of work to do between April and July, and out of work with no job between Aug. and November. I’ve since found a job that I really like so that’s the silver lining of the past few months. But it’s entirely remote for now, I only met one time my manager, otherwise its mostly work and the occasional Teams meeting. It’s hard to date. Picked it up again when I found a job because I didn’t had the desire before. Met 4 people, but I feel like its really hard to connect with someone if you can’t do anything outside because of a curfew/lockdown… So yeah, I do the occasional bending the rules, otherwise the only exit strategy is to go insane. I don’t know how to feel about the strategy. A part of me wants to say that everyone under 50 or something like that should be able to live life as usual as the upsides seems to exceed the downsides of covid19, but I guess we can’t politically act that ; so everybody has to get hurt? I don’t know. How can Israel be at 33.93% of its population vaccinated, but we are only at 0.90% ? It’s insanely slow. I send you all kisses from France, and hope you are holding everything up. Otherwise, you can always shoot me a dm <3
Sweden did basically that for the longest time, only it was people under 70 who where able to live their lives quite like usual. I mean of course not all the way as usual, my uni was distanced, people were encouraged to work remotely, not go to malls, large gatherings were banned and so on. But I went swimming, started climbing, met up with friends all while being pretty firmly within the recommendations. And my uni had a partially in person introduction for new students. Now restrictions are harder, my climbing gym has closed, so has the pool and no one should gather in a group larger than 8 legally (and not really meet anyone outside of their household). But I can go outside as much as I want, and I'm meeting up with a friend who lives in the same building as me. And visiting my parents occasionally. I have mixed feelings about it. I am very thankful i got to swim and climb and all of those things, and I think I'd have suffered mentally from the lack of it. In a way it feels easier to not have it now since I'm kind of used to the pandemic in a way. Frog in boiling water style. At the same time over 10 000 people have died. But would me staying at home have helped that? Many of those deaths were in nursing homes due to structural problems like under-staffing and a too high rotation of staff. But if the level of covid-19 in the general population was lower maybe that staff wouldn't have gotten sick? But countries with hard lockdowns also seem to be suffering. It doesn't seem to have solved the corona problem there, and it probably wouldn't have here either. Would it have helped? Would it have helped enough to be worth it?