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

[Della]

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.

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.

 

[Fritz]

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.

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.

 

[Warrigal]

I haven't had any on going effects.

Had Covid once back in 2022, relatively mildly.

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.

 

[January]

I didnt get antivirals - can't remember if they were around yet, in early 2022 - but anyway I wouldn't have been considered i n a risk group to need them

 

[TeePee]

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.