What is a positive thing that happened to you due to Covid?

Marie5656

Marie5656

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Saw this video on You Tube and found it an interesting thought. There is so much negative about this pandemic....but what about the flip side? For me, I have come to better appreciate my interactions with others, and the positive feedback of just a handshake or hug.

 

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I started a small, early spring garden in 2020 because of Covid using plants I bought at Home Depot. I didn't plant anything last year and missed it, so I bought stuff a few weeks ago to start my own seedlings. Worked with a a little today in prep for getting the first set (am planning to secession plant) ready tomorrow. I also started canning again due to Covid. If food self-sufficiency--really good food too--continues, that's a big positive.
 
Our bank account has gotten a nice "boost" over the past year, or two....as we have substantially limited our restaurant and casino visits, etc., due to this virus. There have been some weeks that I have used more fuel in the tractor and mowers than in the vehicles. We usually take a trip to Las Vegas every Fall, but have not done so for the past 2 years.

If there isn't another spike, or major variant of Covid, by Spring, or early Summer, we're going to start getting out, again.
 
We play bridge online. It was available but didn’t bother; Covid restrictions forced us. My husband has a health issue and I don’t think he can play face to face anymore. I miss meeting with others but it’s so easy to eat lunch and walk over to my easy chair to play.
 
My friends and I are connecting more, even if only by phone. My BFF, who's always very busy started calling me more often. Since my DIL died a little over two months ago, she's been me daily. Also, more artists are offering their concerts online. Also, during the pandemic, I've been spending more time on SF.
 
For a few years now I find that when I go out in very cold windy weather and take a deep breath while walking it hurts my throat and lungs. I've always held a glove, scarf or even a tissue over my nose and mouth. I never thought of wearing a mask until covid hit.

Now I keep a mask handy by my coat to bring out the garbage can or go for our mail which is a distance from our house. I picked up a few branches the other day and the mask worked great.

I've probably spent less time and money since covid. Before, I'd take my time in the stores looking at this or that . I've gotten in the habit of writing a more detailed list and picking up just what I need and then head for home.

I've also made due with items I have on hand because of the shortages. I've made some pretty strange combinations of foods for dinner but we were filled up and satisfied. Couldn't ask for anything more during this mess we are in.
 
I've always been careful about hygiene, wiping door handles etc. has been the norm for me for a long time. Nice to see other people are now more aware of how illness is spread. The other thing is, wearing a mask in cold weather helps to keep your face warm! My jaw and teeth ache when there's a cold wind, but now I can cover up and it looks perfectly normal.
 
Absolutely nothing positive. The media and other propaganda outlets have been telling me for the last 2 years how "wonderful" it is to wear a mask, keep 2 meters apart and live your life virtually. I have been robbed 2 senior years of my life. They are telling me to love a dictatorship way of life when I was born free in a democracy. I'm so sick of it all that I no longer recognize the country I was born in.

Stores are going out of business, the country is a massive debt, super inflation is here, truckers and farmers have flooded our capitol and have shut down several border points, surgeries are backed up for years, many nurses have left their profession because of the stress, senior centers have closed down, daily news reports directed to drive fear into the common people and Big Pharma making billions telling us we need more and more vaccines to be fully protected. Nope, I don't see anything postive about the last 2 years. Perhaps I'm missing all the good times that supposedly someone else is having with their faces cover with a mask?

Oh yes, there was something positive. I saved a lot of money with gas. My car is just sitting around with no place to go so I am saving a lot of money on gas but is that how I want to live. Miss out on my final years on this planet and die with a lot of money in the bank? I SURE HOPE NOT!
 
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