Do you still have any "side effects" from the pandemic. It's 2025 now so...,,🙂‍↔️

OldFeller said:
The biggest side effect of the Pandemic and subsequent shut down of most areas of the economy is out of control inflation.

It was the most irresponsible action ever taken - forcing everyone to stay home and let businesses suffer significant, difficult to overcome losses.

So the predictable result was an increase in prices in the years following in an attempt to make up for drastic losses.

Once prices go up, they don't come down again. All sectors of the economy realized that people will pay the prices regardless of how high they get.

As long as business losses were within reasonable limits, capitalism was working. But once the balance was thrown off, capitalism has to scramble to make up for the losses.

The socialists in this country were celebrating the downfall of the capitalist system. Suddenly you can't find workers because people can no longer live on wages that were once sustainable for both employer and employee.

I freaked out when I first saw the mandates (in the name of protecting public health) that kept people from patronizing businesses on a regular basis which had long sustained those businesses.
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They were? I didn't see any of that, ever.

I did see businesses greedily take advantage of the customers' inability to shop around and raise their prices -- and keep on raising them, just because they found out they could.

Experts warned that the stimulus checks would throw things off, so I think that might have been part of it.

I wouldn't call our governors irresponsible for shutting things down. They thought human lives were more important than the economy.
 

Della said:
Same here. I'm a natural homebody, my friends call me a hermit and for once I didn't have to make up excuses not to go anywhere other than the supermarket once a week -- which was where I caught Covid and was in the hospital for a few days.

I lost 13 pounds but gained them back, I lost a lot of


hair which I did not gain back, it's still thinner than it was although still long and "blonde."

Another thing I liked about it was having a chance to make my clean freak tendencies fly. Nothing in the house escaped the bleach.


At least some of us have learned the value of a mask. I wear one if I'm out when I have a cold or bronchitis, and I always wear one if I go to the doctor. I once had a woman in Kroger turn and pointedly sneer at me when I was wearing a mask. I was tempted to pull my mask down and cough at her.
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I get made fun of or laughed at to this day but it's important I try to protect myself because each time I get a respiratory infection it does a little more damage.
 
January said:
I haven't had any on going effects.

Had Covid once back in 2022, relatively mildly.
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Me too. I had Covid once but was given antivirals by my GP. I recovered quickly and have had no ongoing negative effects.

I am older now and have grieved the loss of my husband. I attribute my declining mental acuity to the aging process, not COVID. However, I'm still pretty functional at this point.
 

I still get brain fog at times. I don't know if it's from having Covid twice, from chemotherapy, or just early dementia. (I hope it's not early dementia!!!) I also get fatigued often. I don't know if it's from the Covid, chemo, radiation, or laziness. My doctor ordered me a sleep study so I'll see if it's from apnea. Actually, it probably is, but I doubt if I'd wear a bipap or cpap if they ordered one. We'll see.
 
While I hated all the deaths from the pandemic I actually liked all the shutdowns and how the world slowed down. I also liked that everyone out in public were wearing mask and gloves, I wish they would keep that up. I don't want to mask up all the time, I just want everyone else to do it because people are disgusting pigs always spreading their nasty germs around.

As for side effects, I did lose my sense of smell, which I have mixed emotions about. On one hand my sense of smell was so keen at times smells could overwhelm me, especially smells on people or in their homes. But now that it's gone I feel a tremendous loss, turns out smells were a critical tool I used to help navigate my way thru life, and I feel I have lost something precious.
 
C50 said:
While I hated all the deaths from the pandemic I actually liked all the shutdowns and how the world slowed down. I also liked that everyone out in public were wearing mask and gloves, I wish they would keep that up. I don't want to mask up all the time, I just want everyone else to do it because people are disgusting pigs always spreading their nasty germs around.

As for side effects, I did lose my sense of smell, which I have mixed emotions about. On one hand my sense of smell was so keen at times smells could overwhelm me, especially smells on people or in their homes. But now that it's gone I feel a tremendous loss, turns out smells were a critical tool I used to help navigate my way thru life, and I feel I have lost something precious.
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Like you C50.... I loved the fact that there was no people anywhere at times... it was especially hard in the UK because people were fined or ticked off by the police for even sitting on a bench in an empty park.... but on the occasions when I could get out to somewhere.. for shopping for example.. I was just blown away by the silence, and the emptiness of the town centre. We werent pernitted to go further than 2 miles from our homes without a good reason..

I remember thinking , enjoy this now, because you'll never see it like this again.

What I hated was the hoarding mentality. I can't blame people for it, because no-one knew what the future was going to hold but it was heartbreaking to see rows of empty shelves.. and people looking in despair at nothing available to them...

I took these photographs in supermarkets during the pandemic...

I remember looking at the man in Sainsburys' as tho' he was not understanding what was happening, as he kept looking at his list... as tho' he thought perhaps he'd come to the wrong store... It broke my heart tbh...I'll never forget it

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..and another day...this lady

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hollydolly said:
This was a picture from the Media at the time ... NYC mass burials of deaths from Covid .....apparently...

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Yes the deaths were certainly tragic. I know four people that died and there were no services or funerals, they were just gone.

Hoarding didn't have much impact on me with the exception of toliet paper, I remember being a bit concerned about that but I still didn't over buy when it was available. In truth I probably under reacted, I knew it was getting bad but didnt anticipate the level of hoarding that happened, I may have been in for some hardship if it lasted longer.
 
I got covid...as did my husband before me... he was very ill for 16 days.. ... when I got it , presumably from him.. it was like nothing I;d ever experienced.. I couldn't get warm in bed, regardless of how many bankets were piled on me..., but fortunately mine lasted less than a week...

neither of us had, had the jabs.. but I did eventually go and have them.. I had 2 within 6 months , and that's enough as far as I'm concerned..
 
GoodEnuff said:
Some may call it "hoarding". Others call it "prepared".
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Well when being "prepared" fixes it so someone else has nothing to wipe their hind end with then it becomes a problem. Especially considering there was absolutely no need for it. People just panicked. There were times the shelves were so empty I wasn't sure I was going to be able to get enough food to eat. Not cool.
 
My daughter and her husband had Covid in March 2020, before there were any vaccines available, but they're young(ish) in their 30s so recovered quickly. They did say that on day 10 of their symptoms they suddenly got very short of breath, but that the episode passed within a day or so, and they recovered after that.

My wife works in a secondary school, and she caught it in Oct 2021, and I caught it from her, as did our son. I noticed that it seemed to affect us all differently.

In my case I just had a really bad headache and lost my appetite, as well as feeling very weak, but strong painkillers took the edge off the pain, and after less than a week I started to recover my appetite. I didn't have any respiratory symptoms at all, and neither did my wife or son.

My son lost his sense of smell and taste, but he didn't suffer the weakness as badly as I did (thank goodness!) and he was able to do some shopping for the three of us to get things like milk, bread, etc. He has since recovered his senses of smell and taste, so for him it was a temporary disability.

My wife suffered not only the loss of her appetite and weakness, but also her dignity as she had a very embarrassing bout of double incontinence in her sleep. :eek:
She only suffered the one time thank goodness, and the washing machine took care of the bedclothes, so no harm done!

None of us had been vaccinated, and since then none of us have had any further bouts of Covid, and I think we all felt that the vaccines were being pushed at the expense of other possible methods of disease control. So although we did get the virus, we weren't convinced that the vaccines were the panacea they were made out to be.

Furthermore, the tales coming out of the woodwork nowadays about young people dropping dead from Myocarditis, and a funeral director in Milton Keynes finding that he couldn't embalm people due to their blood turning into long clotted strings, have made us thankful that we didn't have the vaccines, as our systems are clear of any nasty surprises from them.

We also did some research about the vaccines, and particularly the mandates that were brought in at the time. There were some very strange things about some of them. For instance, in the USA, not only were politicians excused from the mandate, but so were all postal workers (!?).

So what did they know that the rest of us didn't??
 
When covid was in the early stages there were shortages of paper products where I live, so I bought several yards of inexpensive fabric which could be used instead of paper if necessary. I used some of it back then, but it wasn't long until paper reappeared on shelves. I still have some fabric left and use if for other purposes now and then . . . mop rags, cleaning rags, washing the car, etc.

I was vaccinated for covid and got boosters. Either I didn't get covid, or was symptom free and never knew it. It's very rare for me to contract any respiratory illnesses, but two friends of mine died of covid when the disease was at it's peak. And even now, I know people who complain of side effects and breathing problems they still have after being ill from covid quite sometime back.
 
MACKTEXAS said:
When covid was in the early stages there were shortages of paper products where I live, so I bought several yards of inexpensive fabric which could be used instead of paper if necessary. I used some of it back then, but it wasn't long until paper reappeared on shelves. I still have some fabric left and use if for other purposes now and then . . . mop rags, cleaning rags, washing the car, etc.

I was vaccinated for covid and got boosters. Either I didn't get covid, or was symptom free and never knew it. It's very rare for me to contract any respiratory illnesses, but two friends of mine died of covid when the disease was at it's peak. And even now, I know people who complain of side effects and breathing problems they still have after being ill from covid quite sometime back.
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2 of your friends died from Covid ?..wow ! that's astonishing. and very sad :(

I don't know anyone , thankfully.. who died from Covid....
 
hollydolly said:
2 of your friends died from Covid ?..wow ! that's astonishing. and very sad :(

I don't know anyone , thankfully.. who died from Covid....
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I worded it that way to keep it simple. It was actually a married couple (but I considered them friends) because he was the pastor at the church I was attending at that time. She went into the hospital for a non-covid related illness, but contracted covid while in the hospital. He was going to see her every day and he also came down from covid. Both were in their mid-seventies and not in the best of health to begin with; both died.
 
I've had Covid four times. The first time (Dec 2020, pre-vaccine), I was very sick and was on breathing meds for 12 weeks. The second time, less so, and took Paxlovid. Third time, even lighter case, also took Paxlovid. Last time was mild, OTC meds only.

I get vaccinated regularly. With Covid apparently becoming milder, those vaccines, and my immunity being built up from four bouts with the virus, I feel pretty well protected. I DO test when I feel an upper respiratory infection coming on because it would be irresponsible for me to suspect I'm contagious with it and not verify.

When positive, I isolate 95% of the time in an separate wing of our house and use a KN95 mask during the other 5%.

Like others, I lost people to Covid. My nephew was an Covid ward ICU nurse during 2020. People who believe Covid was a hoax, was little more than a cold, or the staggering number of deaths weren't real, should talk to someone who worked the front lines of Covid.
 
My ex had long covid for many months. Had to go to the ER a couple times due to shortness of breath. It hit my brother and son hard too. Took weeks to recover. I personally knew two people that died. One was 80’s and the other 90’s. (Oops, forgot one that died in his 50’s)
 
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MACKTEXAS said:
When covid was in the early stages there were shortages of paper products where I live, so I bought several yards of inexpensive fabric which could be used instead of paper if necessary. I used some of it back then, but it wasn't long until paper reappeared on shelves. I still have some fabric left and use if for other purposes now and then . . . mop rags, cleaning rags, washing the car, etc.

I was vaccinated for covid and got boosters. Either I didn't get covid, or was symptom free and never knew it. It's very rare for me to contract any respiratory illnesses, but two friends of mine died of covid when the disease was at it's peak. And even now, I know people who complain of side effects and breathing problems they still have after being ill from covid quite sometime back.
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I think I might have mentioned this on the forum before, but my two brothers were militantly anti Covid vaccine. They both died a month apart from complications of Covid. My question to people who are adamantly against the Covid vaccine is...would they have died anyway had they had the vaccine, we'll never know.
 

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