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Four Years On, Covid Has Reshaped Life for Many Americans
NY Times ^ | 03/13/2024 | Julie Bosman

Posted on 03/14/2024 7:43:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Jessie Thompson, a 36-year-old mother of two in Chicago, is reminded of the Covid-19 pandemic every day.

Sometimes it happens when she picks up her children from day care and then lets them romp around at a neighborhood park on the way home. Other times, it’s when she gets out the shower at 7 a.m. after a weekday workout.

“I always think: In my past life, I’d have to be on the train in 15 minutes,” said Ms. Thompson, a manager at United Airlines.

A hybrid work schedule has replaced her daily commute to the company headquarters in downtown Chicago, giving Ms. Thompson more time with her children and a deeper connection to her neighbors. “The pandemic is such a negative memory,” she said. “But I have this bright spot of goodness fro

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Made people whack jobs about leaving the house and wearing mask and little tyrants trying to force you to comply. I lost contact with a few family members and a old coworker because I was not playing the game.
1 posted on 03/14/2024 7:43:12 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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Reshaped? Seriously? How about DESTROYED?!!


2 posted on 03/14/2024 7:45:22 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

media continually reshaping minds for decades.


3 posted on 03/14/2024 7:46:55 AM PDT by xoxox
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IMHO, the worse thing that Covid caused to happen is that it flooded America with little girls playing ukeleles or guitars who can’t sing of play but are now internet and TV commercial “superstars”.


4 posted on 03/14/2024 7:48:12 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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How about the dancing nurses?


5 posted on 03/14/2024 7:50:23 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Semper Fidelis)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It also,destroyed people’s lives when they were let go after years and years of loyal service when they refused to comply with the asinine vax mandates and mask requirements and social distancing demands.

People’s whole lives were ruined, many of which will never recover after losing what they had trained for their whole lives, only tl be thrown out onto the streets by careless tyrants with no common sense-

Nurses, doctors, health care workers, firefighters, military people etc etc etc- all fired. Now the mi,Italy wants them to come back AFTER treating the people like crap!


6 posted on 03/14/2024 7:50:42 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Laslo Fripp

no surer sign of the fall of western civilization.


7 posted on 03/14/2024 7:51:31 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Maybe a special holiday could be set up on the date Fauci and other government officials approved funds for the ChiCom’s Wuhan Institute of Virology to produced a gain-of-function to the coronavirus (aka ChiCom virus).

Relatives of those who died from the ChiCom virus could gather and express their views of how the government officials betrayed the United States.


8 posted on 03/14/2024 7:51:51 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The entire covid thing was the greatest crime against constitutional and legal rights perpetrated by this country against its citizens in its ~250 year existence.


9 posted on 03/14/2024 7:52:38 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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Wife, myself and youngest grand daughter went to Taco Bell last night.
Honestly I think the first time since about 2021 maybe even 2020. (We sometimes eat out at Mexican places so usually don’t go to TB)

I was shocked…SHOCKED at the prices. I remember regular hard shell tacos about a buck. Now to 2 dollars as an example.

Almost double the prices I remember, yet the reports claim 25-30% rise in fast food prices. I don’t believe it.


10 posted on 03/14/2024 7:54:07 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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A hybrid work schedule has replaced her daily commute to the company headquarters in downtown Chicago, giving Ms. Thompson more time with her children and a deeper connection to her neighbors. “The pandemic is such a negative memory,” she said. “But I have this bright spot of goodness fro...

And this why RTW is not going to work for many organizations

My customers aren’t in my office and I could actually work from a cruise ship and nothing would change and no one would know.


11 posted on 03/14/2024 7:55:46 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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It got us mail in balloting, which got Biden elected.


12 posted on 03/14/2024 7:55:50 AM PDT by Daveinyork
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To: Bob434

+1

effem


13 posted on 03/14/2024 7:56:20 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Covid been very very good to me.

I got to work from home and I don’t think I’ll ever have to go back to the office on a permanent basis. Virtual net meetings are more productive than office meetings ever were.

My college kids got to come home for a semester so I unexpectedly got to spend a lot of time with them, that I wouldn’t have otherwise.

I learned a lot of new recipes since I wasn’t eating out. Tried some of the meal delivery services which I enjoyed until I got overwhelmed with too much food.

I didn’t mind secluding or wearing a mask when I did go out.
But I only wore a mask once a week.

I think the biggest downside for me was that my kids did get Covid but both came through it okay. And FR got crazy.

I eventually got the vax but not the boosters. Which is okay because the microchip is building new organs using the nano-plastics.


14 posted on 03/14/2024 7:56:46 AM PDT by DannyTN
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15 posted on 03/14/2024 7:57:08 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Phoenix8

Fast Food should be dead as Disco over their prices


16 posted on 03/14/2024 7:57:31 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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17 posted on 03/14/2024 7:57:57 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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> Reshaped? Seriously? How about DESTROYED?!! <

You’ve got that right. And yet we are still not told anything specific about how the virus originated.

Let’s say there’s a minor oil spill on an American coastline. A few seagulls get covered in oil. All hell breaks loose! No one rests until the source of that spill is identified.

COVID killed millions, and destroyed economies. Yet no one in authority seems to care about how COVID came to be. I find that to be remarkable. And disgusting.


18 posted on 03/14/2024 7:58:43 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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That’s funny because when Covid hit and everyone started praising the “first responders”, I saw a news clip that showed the crew at a firehouse doing an Irish jig for the news cameras. I NEVER COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL THAT WAS ALL ABOUT. True story.


19 posted on 03/14/2024 7:59:43 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Could a "caravan" of freeloading U.S. citizens be able to make it into Mexico before they are shot?)
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NYTimes sugar coats this crime.
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Two Weeks To Flatten the Curve
Four Years Like Slaves We Serve.
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FOUR YEARS!


20 posted on 03/14/2024 7:59:50 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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