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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: Alberta's Child

The FEARFUL sheeple we pathetic!
One work mate told me that Supermarkets
Needed to be Shutdown!?!
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Starvation as opposed to a nasty Flu?
I walked away.


41 posted on 03/14/2024 9:01:00 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Let's be serious. Government shut down so many businesses that it thought were non-essential. Many have never recovered.

It also paid lots of government workers.....not to work or even to show up for work. This brought about a huge culture shift among public employee, many of whom feel being paid for no work is an entitlement.

For others, it taught us that crowed offices, lunch rooms, and lack of proper air changes and filtering were an office health hazard.

If caused the firing of or forced early retirement of those who would not drink the Kool-aid of mandatory vaccinations to prevent the spread of Covid, even though it was proven that being vaccinated did little to stop the spread of the disease.

The shutting down of classrooms destroyed years of educational learning among our youth.

It divided people into socially privileged groups: medical professional, first responders, grocery store workers, government employees, education workers, utility workers, peasants. These groups had status and demanded hazard pay and perks for showing up to work.

It provided stimulus pay for doing nothing.

It destroyed or work ethic and culture.

42 posted on 03/14/2024 9:10:17 AM PDT by Robert357
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To: MayflowerMadam
--- "The legacy media is ramping up the hype again.” Election is looming. MSM has their marching orders."

In a nutshell, indeed.

The Leftists -- Democrats and RINOs included -- want us to be "nudged" and "messaged" and 'influenced" into their idiotic version of Communism, next edition, 'new and improved', and camouflaged with another velvet glove to hide their iron-fisted will to rule.

43 posted on 03/14/2024 9:10:29 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: Bob434

I radicalized me. We saw the malignancy of the wealthy and the elites and now I’m to the left of Bernie Sanders on tax policy.


44 posted on 03/14/2024 9:13:12 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Your Vid is Priceless !
.
Remember the Local parks being taped OFLIMITS?
.
Face masks for Dogs?
.
Endless Lines at Costco and Shopping carts with a Years supply of Toilet Paper???
.
Media Induced Insanity and FEAR !


45 posted on 03/14/2024 9:18:29 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (ALL Things Will be Revealed !)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

” she gets out the shower “


46 posted on 03/14/2024 9:18:51 AM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: Big Red Badger

It’s a definite Covid classic.

And on TP and paper towels, prepper me had a 4-6 month supply on hand. I was never sweating paper product availablity.


47 posted on 03/14/2024 9:26:08 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Alberta's Child

I would love to see tribunals and executions of the “public health” officials, business execs, lockdown politicians and wealthy elites who inflicted all of this and I would have no moral or ethical conflicts with perpetrating a holocaust upon them.


48 posted on 03/14/2024 9:26:30 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: nonliberal

It radicalized me farther to the right..well not really, I was already right. It embittered me to the right.

I was an easier going, happy conservative. Now I’m a bitter one. FB had a lot to do with it and CL, I was temporarily banned by FB and permanently (to this day) banned on CL. My crimes? Dissented on the wet market theory and complained about the election. On CL a little more as I started calling them every vile name I could think of when a leftist would FIRST start cursing me. Yet I was banned, they were not. COVID made me realize we are in a war. Pinko Commies and almost all the media including social media (or whatever weird equivalent they are now) versus real America.

When I look back on pre-COVID FB posts they are all about sports, weather, puppies, what I did and a few political. Not any more buddy, not anymore as it’s all scum leftists like Biden, Suckerberg and the list goes on and what they are doing to us.


49 posted on 03/14/2024 9:36:00 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: Phoenix8

Sorry for my ignorance but I don’t do social media. What is CL?


50 posted on 03/14/2024 9:46:05 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: nonliberal

Craigslist.

Ran by this guy and his is probably more leftist than he even looks.

https://images.app.goo.gl/X2MuA1BuEaZWsLVQ9


51 posted on 03/14/2024 10:05:30 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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To: ChicagoConservative27

(Made people whack)

For this reason alone it has nearly finished me off.

I’ve had to deal with too much and seen irreparable damage in certain people around me. Which is bad; very bad.

Because these things were essential to my survival.


52 posted on 03/14/2024 10:43:54 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Bob434

(Reshaped? Seriously? How about DESTROYED?!!)

Cannot be overemphasized.


53 posted on 03/14/2024 10:44:45 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: Bob434

Bingo! It destroyed my life. Covid, then Long Covid, forced me to retire last year and my life hasn’t been the same since.


54 posted on 03/14/2024 10:48:28 AM PDT by ducttape45 (Proverbs 14:34, "Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.")
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To: xoxox

(no surer sign of the fall of Western Civilization.)

That and the Pride Marches.

COVID-19(84) was an excellent dry run for the Mark of the Beast.

You can count on that.

And the dry run was WORLDWIDE.


55 posted on 03/14/2024 10:50:59 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

AND the Jab, Killed many people, especially elderly couples.

I know at least 4 couples that in my opinion died gradually, but not long after taking the mRNA gene therapy injection.

It is fact, but it will never be admitted.

I am sick of 27/7 lies about everything around us.


56 posted on 03/14/2024 10:51:02 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

AND the NYT is the biggest collection of Propaganda and Lies, 2nd only to MSNBC.


57 posted on 03/14/2024 10:52:32 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

WEF co-founder’s son Hussain Najadi, calls for the arrests of Bill Gates, WHO leadership, the WEF, Klaus Schwab, Big Tech and Pfizer_-SD

https://www.unitedaustraliaparty.org.au/video/wef-co-founders-son-hussain-najadi-calls-for-the-arrests-of-bill-gates-who-leadership-the-wef-klaus-schwab-big-tech-and-pfizer_-sd/


58 posted on 03/14/2024 10:55:45 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: ducttape45

sorry to hear that- The sickest part is it was over a lie- states that didn’t shut down or require shots fared better than those that did-

IF there were any justice, the lies about covid woudl be exposed, and people compensated for having had their lives ruined for no reason whatsoever! So much corruption surrounding those involved in the covid scam- Forcing people to comply with the lie or suffer the consequences is one of our nations most shameful acts-


59 posted on 03/14/2024 11:00:26 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: Phoenix8

Ok. I didn’t even know Craigslist was still a thing.


60 posted on 03/14/2024 11:43:37 AM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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