How is everyone coping?

WEMBLEY76 said:
Better today with nicer weather and a feeling that Spring is just around the corner.
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Certainly smelt like Spring today. Even if it was just a temporary glimpse, today was enough.
 
Went for a walk this morning . Rammed with people with 3 dogs & 2 kids strolling along a narrow pathway who then look at you in disbelief when you wait for them to vacate the space.
Went to the shops this afternoon and it was mobbed. Usual dickheads with no mask ,mask under nose, people leaning right across you to grab a bunch of broccoli. Its not really lockdown is it .Its more like a punishment regime where you are prohibited from meeting the people you'd want to be with whilst exposing you to those you'd prefer to avoid.
 
Nellies left peg said:
Don't you mean wheelchairs?
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No I don’t mate, I mean the very specific phrase that’s used for people laughing.

My original joke was about my own bad back and was a pop at yoga, not the disabled. I obviously wouldn’t want to be in a wheelchair, that was the point of the joke, that it’s bad to be in a wheelchair but yoga is worse (again obviously it’s not that’s the joke).
 
Psychedelic Casual said:
I’m going to be honest, and people might think I’m weird, but I really like Lockdowns (and I live on my own)!

When the first lockdown ended, and then I was back in work in September, I had post-lockdown blues like you get after coming home from a Summer holiday but they lasted for a good six weeks.

I like the lack of work stress (and I am in work a few days a week, all week next week in fact, but it’s very different, far more relaxed and I can choose when I go in)... I like the pace of life, I like the laidback feeling... I like reduced traffic (more noticeable in the first lockdown)...

And I loved waking up naturally to no alarm every day (found I was waking at around 08:00 every day), and having time to shop well, cook well, eat healthily and exercise every day.

I had a one-man health revolution.

Yes, I miss going to the footy, the pub, to gigs, seeing and chatting to beautiful women; but all this has made me wake up to the fact that there’s far more to human life than getting up and going to work every day slogging our guts out.

All the time and effort I was putting into work, I was putting into my health. I felt and looked like a new man, my brain altered, I was thinking more clearly and more positively, I was all round sharper and more confident.

I’ve sorted out a new wardrobe (after losing weight), sorted out my music collection, kept the flat clean at all times (hard when I have my periods of time in normal times in work when I do 12 hour days!), got rid of my car, bought a bicycle, started cycling and running to work when I need to go in... none of which I would have done without lockdowns and more spare cash because I’m not going to the footy.

I realise this is all very selfish while people are getting very ill and dying. I’ve had a few extended family die from Covid, myself. Also got some mates and family who are struggling financially. But as an individual I’m going to miss this life when everything returns to normal.
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This is a great insight, my job on the road is a fairly basic sales job selling removals. Now the motorways are just used by lorries and all the customers are at home and eager to meet someone prepared to visit it has been far less stressful role and the majority are 60+ moving closer to the grandkids who miss them most.
 
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