Posted on 02/02/2025 11:15:30 AM PST by DallasBiff
March marks the five-year anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, a collective trauma that New Englanders faced together. For an upcoming story to mark the anniversary, the Globe is asking readers to share their memories of moments from the pandemic.
Examples: Memories of being sent home from school or work, losing a loved one, new routines you created in isolation, including on Zoom; getting your first vaccine, going back to school or work; seeing someone without a mask for the first time.
Please share photos, videos, social media posts and written recollections of no longer than 100 words.
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It’s the small things that stand out in my mind:
1. Being able to hike in the 1,400 Foothills Park in Palo Alto, CA with nary another soul in the entire park and the sky empty of jets.
2. Tearing the yellow “caution” tape off the park benches and enjoying the solitude.
3. Being harangued by a woman at Rodeo Beach in Marin County for talking to her husband on a beach bench while not wearing a mask with a brisk 15-20 mph breeze off the Pacific in our faces. Not a virus particle within miles of us, yet she was screaming “Where’s your mask? Where are you from?” She was going to blow an artery so her nice husband took her by the arm and escorted her away.
4. Being harangued by a masked guy on a trail because I didn’t have a mask on — out in the bright sunshine, beautiful day, nice breeze and only a couple of people within eyesight.
5. An Asian mom coming up a hillside trail with her little boy moving to the outside of the trail next to the steep drop-off and facing the canyon — all to avoid passing next to me for 0.1 seconds.
6. People on the sidewalk stepping into the street next to the cars whizzing by to avoid passing too close to me.
7. Watching a waiter at a restaurant on the coast drop food off in paper bags by the back of a woman’s car and her waiting for him to go back into the restaurant, then getting out of her car to put the bag of food into her car.
8. Supermarkets putting the “One Way” arrows on their aisle floors as if that would do any good.
9. Local restaurants building sidewalk cafe tents. They effectively built outdoor enclosed rooms no different, really, from their indoor enclosed rooms.
In summary, the sheer and utter stupidity and folly of the “common man” and their inability to assess relative risks — like standing on the edge of a canyon with your little boy, or stepping into a street full of cars inches away, or passing by another person for 0.1 seconds on the sidewalk.
And reveal their true colors as anti American tyrants.
My thoughts exactly.
Mostly I remember it as being very boring. No sports. No concerts. I’ll never forgive the MLB for screwing around so much. Spring training was on, they already had all the league in 2 places with lots of fields and in hotels, and it’s a sport where the 2 teams hardly interact. They could have just gone for it, been the only sport going on the entire planet. They would have been heroes. But no, the MLB and PA had to spend months arguing with each other about stupid crap instead, so they were the last sport to come back.
I also remember being so happy that Blue Oyster Cult had gotten a new record label. They already had a bunch of live albums in queue to release that year, culminating in a new album. When the world turned off there was no live music. But then every 6 weeks or so BOC released a new live album and DVD. That was my live music for 2020. Yeah Frontier Records! Music heroes. Like the MLB could have been.
I remember switching from indoor, secretarial, white collar type jobs to tree service because I wouldn’t wear a damn face diaper or take Mr. “Thin the Herd” Gates’ “vaccine.” I lost 58 pounds of fat, have a man’s job for once in my life, and now make as much as I ever did as a neutered office drone (even adjusting for Bidenflation). I’m so glad I refused to be “in this together” with the covidians!
That’s awesome good for you.
I remember the multitude of sheep social distancing and wearing those useless masks and shunning those that didn’t.
To this day there are still a few that wear the mask all day long. One I see often works at a building supply store. She’s in her 20’s and has a very tight fitting black mask. I feel sorry for her for she’s recycling her own germs and likely has a low oxygen content in her blood stream. She’s harming herself and too brainwashed to know it.
I know someone who printed their own covid shot card on cardstock and successfully kept their job! And as for me, I loved giving the a fake name and phone number on those restaurant tracking forms.
Fraudchi showed us all what a con man and traitor he is.
Absolutely right.
And with bitterness, I watched my parents cut off from their church and not be able to attend for that year. That was their happiness and comfort. Too late, I saw a well-meaning but propagandized female neighbor take my parents in their 90s for that shot when she went to get hers. 4 days later dad was in the hospital for myocarditis. He came home with C-diff and both mom and dad were dead in 8 weeks.
Rotten evil bastards.
Not being allowed to visit my mother in the nursing home for six months. During her last week of life, I was finally allowed in to see her for “compassionate” reasons because she was in end-stage kidney failure. By then, she was so weak that we she couldn’t speak, and we couldn’t have any final conversations.
Share social media posts?????
LOL. The Globe can’t be serious.
*Memories of being sent home from school or work
Yep, did that.
* losing a loved one,
Yep, did that.
*new routines you created in isolation, including on Zoom;
Did that to an extent. Refused to be locked down. Got out regularly, didn’t wear a mask.
*getting your first vaccine,
Did not do that.
*going back to school or work; seeing someone without a mask for the first time.
A lot of people in my area didn’t wear masks and a lot of businesses had the sense not to push that nonsense. It was pretty much the big box stores that posted little underachievers at their entrances to bark at people going in about masks and we just didn’t patronize those stores.
Is the Boston Globe pining for those days? That figures.
Elderly relatives died alone because nobody was allowed in hospitals.
People had to wear totally useless paper masks and stand six feet apart for no reason whatsoever.
Restaurants had to be closed but liquor stores were kept open.
Idiot people wore the useless masks, even driving alone in cars.
Idiot people had groceries delivered and wiped down the grocery bags with alcohol.
"Karens" were in their glory, shouting down all those who didn't wear the useless paper masks or stand the required six feet apart.
People could not go into work so they did Zoom calls from home while wearing pajama bottoms with a shirt and tie above the waist.
If you did not take the magic vaccines and required boosters, you were an evil person who was trying to kill grandma.
“8. Supermarkets putting the “One Way” arrows on their aisle floors as if that would do any good.”
I remember that one. If you walked the wrong way it turned into that scene from Midnight Express when Billy started walking the wrong way.
My biggest memory is a didn’t fall for the bull shit. None of it. Shots, masks, 6 ft, tests, rush to the hospital because of a runny nose...everything. Yet I lived thru it.
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