It isn’t the same......

officerripley said:
I've been missing people myself. It was already too lonely & quiet around here & when the lockdown came? Deeeepressing.
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There is a huge price to pay for this lockdown. Mental health will be one of the prices that we pay. Many businesses & restaurants will be gone. Our whole world has been turned upside down due to the spread of the Corvid-19 panic. Blame the media for fear mongering beyone what is necessary! Being cautious is good but unreasonable fear is panic.
 
Hi Shali. Welcome back!!!

Nothing I loved most is the same as it used to be but what I find most alarming and what impacts my life daily in a negative way is the lack of courtesy and kindness that people used to show one another.

When did decency suddenly become uncool? When did helping someone else make you a loser? I don't agree with that.
 
"It isn't the same as it use to be" is exactly why many Seniors here where we live, don't like the changes that have happened to the city we live in. The population use to be 15,000 and now it's 82,000. Most Seniors here don't like going to the eastern end of town due to "big box" stores and lots and lots of upper-scale sports restaurants have gone in.

Many of the Millennials here look like they moved here from Los Angeles or even Denver. They don't like the Seniors and Seniors are too thrilled with them and their looks.

Many local Seniors say "our nice/family city has been ruined".
 
chic said:
Hi Shali. Welcome back!!!

Nothing I loved most is the same as it used to be but what I find most alarming and what impacts my life daily in a negative way is the lack of courtesy and kindness that people used to show one another.

When did decency suddenly become uncool? When did helping someone else make you a loser? I don't agree with that.
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Hi Chic, thanks, it is great to be back
 
Packerjohn said:
There is a huge price to pay for this lockdown. Mental health will be one of the prices that we pay. Many businesses & restaurants will be gone. Our whole world has been turned upside down due to the spread of the Corvid-19 panic. Blame the media for fear mongering beyone what is necessary! Being cautious is good but unreasonable fear is panic.
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Where have you seen "unreasonable fear?" Please post a link.
 
I appreciate Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu, and Youtube for movie/video entertainment. The same is true with my iTunes music subscription where I can download virtually any genre of music I choose to listen to. The internet got me through college and connects me with friends and acquaints in online forums such as this. I can download virtually anything with proper software, PDF, movies, music, software and web applications.

My iPhone connects to my car via Bluetooth which allows me to use navigation apps such as WAZE, Google Maps or Apple Maps. No need for Garmin or TomTom GPS. I can receive and verbally respond to messages and phone calls while driving. I can listen to Amazon Music, iTunes ,Pandora Radio, Audible Audio Books, Youtube Music, Library books or an app that reads my mail while I'm driving.

Things are not as they used to be.
 
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Packerjohn said:
There is a huge price to pay for this lockdown. Mental health will be one of the prices that we pay. Many businesses & restaurants will be gone. Our whole world has been turned upside down due to the spread of the Corvid-19 panic. Blame the media for fear mongering beyone what is necessary! Being cautious is good but unreasonable fear is panic.

It was different then...No it wasn't
I have learned that 'Fear Sells.'
We are more sophisticated cognitively than our 14th century ancestors., emotionally-you judge.
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Furryanimal said:
What just isn't what it used to be?
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Well, we now have lots of music from everywhere, certainly far more than we had prior to the internet. I doubt that the Beatles, for example, or Elvis, would have made the splash that they did in their day when they were the biggest thing going. Today, they would be just one entertainer or group among thousands showing up through every internet media outlet, satellite radio services, etc. It is a very crowded market now in which it can be quite difficult to stand out. There is no Ed Sullivan now to showcase an act to the entire US, and I am sure that other countries had their equivalent. However, youtube has provide visibility to the world of various artists and those who are willing to spend time perusing what youtube has to offer, can find many artists they may never have had access to in the systems of the past.

The good thing is that anyone can make a recording and get it out there instead of having record companies choosing who they will support, leaving many very good performers with no exposure. Of course, with no filtering at all, everybody, regardless of how good they are, has equal access and we have to sift through a lot of stuff to find quality. So the current situation is a double-edged sword.

As a guitar player, I see an overwhelming amount of learning materials with books, DVDs, online lessons, and tons of youtube teaching videos. This is a double-edged sword - great to have teaching materials easily obtainable at reasonable cost or free, but the quality varies greatly and it is all too easy to get hold of something that leads you down a "blind alley" with the promise of skipping the learning process to play overnight or simply not providing the necessary foundation to further build skills on. Also, the emphasis has gone from using your ears to figure things out to using tablature, not standard notation. Music is foremost a hearing art, and being able to read is also important.

One of the truly wonderful things that the internet has made possible is being able to take lessons via Skype from the musicians that we admire. There is much good that the internet has brought, and also much bad with all the hacking and rip-off artists at work.

I had a nice job in a trio playing Holiday Inns, supper clubs, and resorts 6 nights a week with at least a week at each place back in the late 1970s for a couple of years. That whole circuit pretty much dried up with the onset of disco and the emergence of the DJ replacing a fair amount of such live music. I decided to leave the band and get another career when I had gotten tired of touring all the time and not having a real home, so the loss of those jobs didn't directly affect me, but a lot of musicians on those circuits were adversely affected.

So with all these examples, I don't see them as all bad or all good, but instead a combination of both good and not so good points. Personally, I think my life is much better today than in the past and I had a great career as a software engineer, which didn't exist way back when. :)

Edit: In rereading my post, I see that really, I am observing changes rather than comparisons. Things are definitely different from what they used to be, but change is a normal part of life.

Tony
 
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Wren said:
Service in shops, good manners and courtesy in general.....:(
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I worked for 17 1/2 years as a cashier in a supermarket and retired 7 1/2 years ago......many a time I have had to bite my tongue because of the miserable buggers both young and old I have served and what they have said to me which was nothing do to with me but the management but the cashier was always to blame for some reason....The good manners and courtesy should go both ways.
 
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chic said:
Hi Shali. Welcome back!!!

Nothing I loved most is the same as it used to be but what I find most alarming and what impacts my life daily in a negative way is the lack of courtesy and kindness that people used to show one another.

When did decency suddenly become uncool? When did helping someone else make you a loser? I don't agree with that.
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I have seen this too. Also, forums seem to be troubled with a few folks making it difficult to carry on a civil conversation. Though I have seen it here, it is nowhere near as prevalent as I have seen elsewhere and small frictions seem to be relatively easily resolved here, so this forum is mostly a bit of an oasis among all that. The reason I make this point is that, for many of us, the forum is our means of social contact during this COVID-19 situation and has become of much greater importance in recent months.

Tony
 
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