What did the response to the pandemic do that surprised you? If anything?

I was surprised by the eagerness of government leaders to interfere with civil liberties. While some seemed to realize that they didn't have the power to put in place mandates, to force churches and businesses to close, others grabbed new powers very quickly. It was astonishing how quickly people lost their rights, even to the point of pressure being applied by threat of loss of jobs to accept an unproven vaccine into their bodies against their will.

The freedoms Americans have always taken for granted were gone in a wink through rulings made unilaterally by governors, mayors or the county health director. That is what frightened me a lot more than the virus did.
 
The shutting down of science, scientists and doctors, who were saving lives with existing therapeutics so that they could pretend that there were no treatments available. The shutting down of the known science of antibodies. Pretending that they found patient zero, and could contact trace in the USA, well after the virus had been spreading like wildfire for two months.
 
The divisiveness. And yes, the panic buying.

Un-vaxed did die. I knew a number of them before the vaccines came out. Was I for the vaccines? Not totally but if I didn't get one, I didn't work so that was that. Not sure if the 3 total shots helped when I finally got covid last November. After repeated close exposures.
 
Pepper said:
I'm pissed that now NYC is stuck with dining sheds, which invite vermin and take away parking spaces and clutter up the streets & sidewalks.
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I wouldn't like dining sheds either. We had sidewalk dining very briefly during the pandemic.

Maybe there's hope. There is a new plan. It seems to me that someone in charge might have thought of getting plastic bags full of food waste off the sidewalks before now.

Newly-proposed solution to NYC's rat problem leaves restaurants concerned​

NEW YORK - A new proposal from the NYC Sanitation Department is looking to help curb the city's major rat problem.

On Thursday, the department put forward a proposed rule that would require businesses that produce a substantial amount of food waste to put their trash and their compostable material in bins.

"Human food is also rat food, and we need to get the food out of the black bags that sat on the curbs. And we need to put them in rat-proof containers," says Jessica Tisch, the NYC sanitation commissioner.

https://www.fox5ny.com/news/newly-proposed-solution-to-nycs-rat-problem-leaves-restaurants-concerned
 
I was not surprised at the so-called panic. Most people will believe anything on the media so why not believe that we are all gonna die unless we hide under our beds or in the closet. The government kept making all these rules (to protect us) one week and then changing them the next week. Some of it was pretty silly. I hate comparing people to a flock of sheep because I'm one of them but the comparison is pretty good. Baaaaaa!
 

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when i first heard something about a cruise ship quarantined at Yokohama in February 2020, i thought, oh that is happening there. that won't affect me. my parents' assisted living facility went on lockdown in March 2020, i thought it was overkill. I was notified first week of April 2020 that a caregiver had Covid. My parents died a week later; within two days of each other, of Covid.
 
AnneTeak said:
i was surprised that someone determined we needed to stay five feet away from each other; and that amount of measured space would protect us. they actually marked floors in stores and people respected it.
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I was in a grocery store in the beginning before the stickers were on the floor at the checkouts. A lady walked up behind a man already in line. She had a full-size cart & wasn't even close to being on his heels with it & was at least 5-6 foot away. He turned around & screamed as loud as he could "Get away from me" repeatedly. Everyone one there stood watching him act like a fool. The manager came up & tried to calm him down which he refused to do. He came close to having the police called on him.

I didn't pass him in the aisles during my shop, but I wonder how he acted around the other customers who did.
 
i was surprised that grocery stores made aisles one way. i mistakenly went the wrong way in an aisle. A man yelled at me and said, "you are going the wrong way, you must be special" i yelled back and said, "NO, my name is Anne" and backed down the aisle.
 

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