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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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: americans; covid; life; reshaped
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To: Leaning Right

It’s demon driven really. The left exploited covid to make billions, and didn’t care that people were dying- infsct, they intentional,y sent sick people into nursing homes knowing full well it would kill the vulnerable seniors there, all for gov $$

Now there is a massive cover up, and the msm have their marching orders not to investigate the corruption and. Crime that took place


21 posted on 03/14/2024 8:02:51 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: ChicagoConservative27

For me, one of the many positive aspects of the COVID fiasco was that I found it very, very easy to simply write off a large portion of my acquaintances and professional associates. I was never close to them because I kind of sensed in the back of my mind that they were timid losers or @ssholes, but COVID helped confirm it.


22 posted on 03/14/2024 8:04:48 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Vendome
And this why RTW is not going to work for many organizations.

My prediction is that "hybrid work schedules" aren't going to work in the long term, either. Within a few years we are likely to find that every full-time job that was 100% on-site before COVID is going to be either 100% on-site again, or will be fully remote.

23 posted on 03/14/2024 8:06:51 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Lost my job; lost my home; got engaged; fiancé died - covid related; lost another home.

Other than that.....

Still... so many people lost their lives. Time to count blessings.

RIP all victims.

24 posted on 03/14/2024 8:11:04 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Churchillspirit

God Bless you


25 posted on 03/14/2024 8:11:36 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Thank you. HE has, in so many ways.


26 posted on 03/14/2024 8:17:48 AM PDT by Churchillspirit (Pray for President Trump)
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To: Phoenix8

I worked at very early Taco Bell in the 60s. Everything on the menu was 19¢. A taco, bean burrito, taco burger, a tostada and a Pepsi for a buck.


27 posted on 03/14/2024 8:19:52 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Lest we forget, a lot of people had their lives reshaped by being dead. I still want to know what world leaders were told that had them shut down their nations’ economies. It must have been very scary.


28 posted on 03/14/2024 8:21:38 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: moovova

I Wear My Face Mask in the Car
by Media Bear
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DDXG-dHugc

Almost 4 years old and still funny! He nailed it early. To the tune of I Wear My Sunglasses at Night


29 posted on 03/14/2024 8:23:09 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: hanamizu
I still want to know what world leaders were told that had them shut down their nations’ economies. It must have been very scary.

The only thing "scary" about it was the public hysteria.

A friend of mine has a theory that COVID would have been treated no differently than other respiratory ailments like SARS or MERS. This changed when professional sports leagues began cancelling events in March 2020 -- something that hadn't even been done during World War II or for more than a brief period after 9/11. This incited a public panic that involved pathetic, simpering, emotionally stunted people in these countries demanding that their public officials "do something" to protect them against something was going to eventually run its course anyway.

The end result was the mass, self-inflicted retardation we have seen since early 2020.

30 posted on 03/14/2024 8:26:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
--- "...not playing the game."

The legacy media is ramping up the hype again. But, as posted to another thread today and so fully current:

From: "COVID-19 Coronavirus Pandemic - Last updated: March 14, 2024, 11:35 GMT"

7,005,901 deaths since the pandemic began in 2020

Source: Wrodlometer updated as of today

( 7,005,901 deaths / 8,097,203,634 world population ) x 100 = 0.0865 percent mortality rate of the world's population. Less than one-tenth of one percent over more than three years.

One observes that the legacy media is no longer particularly interested in the mortality rate for the most obvious of reasons.

The title is best read: "Four Years On, Covid HYSTERIA Has Reshaped Life for Many Americans"

One notes that the NYTimes article begins, as do so many, with the individual "human interest" angle.

31 posted on 03/14/2024 8:28:02 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Churchillspirit

Damn... my condolences....


32 posted on 03/14/2024 8:31:45 AM PDT by Tuxedo (Bring it...)
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To: Alberta's Child

...I kind of sensed in the back of my mind that they were timid losers or @ssholes, but COVID helped confirm it.

++++++++++

The response to this freak show certainly helped separate the wheat from the chaff in my life. The saddest casualty in all of this was the response from my church of 30+ years. They helped me understand that I’m just a warm body in the pews. No longer.


33 posted on 03/14/2024 8:33:31 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: mund1011
I was in the midst of a temporary relocation at the start of COVID, and I made it permanent as a result of how things unfolded.

One of the great benefits was that my new church has been growing by leaps and bounds, largely because they kept the COVID disruption to a minimum and -- importantly -- they were one of the few that stayed open.

34 posted on 03/14/2024 8:35:53 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Churchillspirit

Tragic. So sorry.


35 posted on 03/14/2024 8:39:19 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: xoxox

Most of us remember The Age of Aquarius.

We are now in The Age of Look At Me!


36 posted on 03/14/2024 8:39:36 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (Semper Fidelis)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

“The legacy media is ramping up the hype again.”

Election is looming. MSM has their marching orders.


37 posted on 03/14/2024 8:41:09 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Fraud vitiates everything." - SCOTUS)
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To: Alberta's Child

The only thing “scary” about it was the public hysteria.


Well, there was that, but I think that came after. Remember when the first batch of Americans came out of China. The ‘flight attendants’ wore ‘moon suits’. Anyone showing symptoms was put in a special, isolated part of the plane. They landed in Alaska and were kept in quarantine for two weeks, the first time in years that people were kept confined against their will because of quarantine.

This was before there was a single case of Wuhan recorded in the U.S.

Leaders in other countries (with the exception of Sweden) reacted the same. They, including President Trump were told by their medical advisors that something not unlike the Spanish flu was upon us. None of them have told us what they were told.


38 posted on 03/14/2024 8:49:28 AM PDT by hanamizu ( )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

...bacause it works.


39 posted on 03/14/2024 8:50:42 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: Alberta's Child

Not in Silicon Valley, Austin or Manhattan.

Hybrid and remote are seen as benefits by employer and employee.

5 day onsite is nothing but a pain in the ass and people like me don’t want to be around people with “Stinking thinkin” or “hardening of the attitudes”

I’m in sales and I cannot stand 80% of so called sales people.

The other 20% are like me or want to be me and of those who want be in the top 5% or 3% we are more than willing to teach them how.

Besides, we work way less hours than the 80% and make all the money....


40 posted on 03/14/2024 8:53:33 AM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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