[News] How has the year of lockdowns affected you ?

[Uncle Spielberg]

How has the year of lockdowns affected you ?

On a personal, business,relationship, health basis ?

My business is trotting along 50% of normal. Could be worse and bunged a few quid from Rushi

How are you getting on ?

It has been tough, maybe need a group to offer help and advise to get through all this ? This group has always been at it's best when the chips are down just sharing experiences through extraordinarily difficult times

Keep going

 

[Taybha]

However tough iv'e had it , i just think about all those families that have lost someone to this Virus and thank my lucky stars , and how tough it must be for Doctors and Nurses ,kinel i don't have that bottle in me to do their job , they should all be given a good wedge of cash for a decent holiday when this is beaten , and it will be beaten .

 

[sparkie]

It's not been a year.

Lockdowns started just over 8 months ago.

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

It's not been a year.

Lockdowns started just over 8 months ago.

Pedantic

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

It's not been a year.

Lockdowns started just over 8 months ago.

It will be a year this is going on to 4/21 earliest

 

[Weststander]

We were lucky with our income.

I WFH mainly anyway, the main change was having the company of teenagers from March to August. Broadband slowed as a result, pushing me to finally get organised with fast fibre.

During Lockdown 1, I was fine at first, but it became repressive as the weeks became months. Missed non-grocery shops, cafes, proper haircuts, meals out, and it was hard to get plants for our garden as everyone went horticultural crazy. Saviours were getting into longer bike rides and wall to wall EPL Restart was fantastic. Highlights were wins over Arsenal (Gwen-dozy ), Norwich and Burnley). NSC also helped my sanity.

Quasi Lockdown 2 is much better, knowing the exact date that many restrictions for us end.

Cannot truly complain at all, when people have lost their lives to CV19 or their loved ones.

 

[Swansman]

Not going to lie, at the start of it I almost found it as exciting as frightening. Most cataclysmic thing since 9/11.

Now I'm pretty tired of it. It has ruined a lot of my social life, my income and my lifestyle in general. I want to party all the time, club all night, sleep with loads of young women, share joints with strangers in parks... I'm not a Netflix guy and I'm not a family guy, I need randomness and this year I couldnt have it nearly as much as I'm used to.

Its not nearly as frightening as in the beginning when it seemed like one in ten getting the virus would die and it is very much not exciting anymore. Just dull and killing a year of my life that was supposed to be pretty important and interesting.

 

[atomised]

It's pretty hard to measure. The issues it has caused mental health wise for the kids has been tough to see and challenging to deal with. On a personal level I'm much more focused on life and what I want from it so I feel when we reach the other end of this I will be in a better place.

 

[BBassic]

Like many I've discovered that I can WFH without losing productivity. I hated it at first, missed the familiarity of the office surroundings but it got more manageable and now I don't particularly want to go back.

It also spurred us into moving. You don't realise just how small a one bedroom flat is until you're confined to it for months on end.

My mental health has taken a bit of a kicking. I'm very wary of going outside these days and sometimes when I do go out for exercise or whatever I feel like I can see germs coming out of people's mouths and noses, like in the adverts for cold medicine where you get that spray of germs.

 

[sparkie]

Pedantic

And not hyperbolic.

 

[Weststander]

It's pretty hard to measure. The issues it has caused mental health wise for the kids has been tough to see and challenging to deal with. On a personal level I'm much more focused on life and what I want from it so I feel when we reach the other end of this I will be in a better place.

I’ve said all along that people are really going to appreciate life’s freedoms and pleasures after this.

From eating out, the cinema, for me stuff like ice skating at the Royal Pavilion, to travel and holidays.

For the majority whose incomes will hold up, it wouldn’t surprise if there was actually a bit of a boom in hitherto restricted sectors.

 

[Justice]

Like many I've discovered that I can WFH without losing productivity. I hated it at first, missed the familiarity of the office surroundings but it got more manageable and now I don't particularly want to go back.

It also spurred us into moving. You don't realise just how small a one bedroom flat is until you're confined to it for months on end.

My mental health has taken a bit of a kicking. I'm very wary of going outside these days and sometimes when I do go out for exercise or whatever I feel like I can see germs coming out of people's mouths and noses, like in the adverts for cold medicine where you get that spray of germs.

You need to be careful the government are pushing for only one doctor sign off and commit a person instead of two, just like Nazi Germany.

 

[NooBHA]

It's been an absolute Doddle - Saved loads of money not going to Pubs restaurants and football - Also managed to catch up on all that Porn that I hadn't got round to watching

 

[bluenitsuj]

Not really been affected luckily.

The wife and I have continued working throughout. I have not had any alcohol since the last home game in March before lockdown so do not miss pubs. I also stopped smoking 4 months ago so positive for me. I am still working from home and will continue indefinitely.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Funnily enough I was just listening to the track below. That summed up 'till June' for me. I was depressed, and guilty that my income was fine while others lost everything. And I have been angry about how blondie ****wit managed it all. Still am. Have a listen to this and see if it maps to what you've felt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtCpnMLWLzw

Pity the victims and the dead.

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

it is not seeing mates every month. no annual xmas get together this year with them, no office meal, not seeing the albion for 9 months, no theatre, concerts i guess all the things i loved made life enyoyable just simple things we expected but not seeing dad again for another 2 weeks after 5 months before is making it really tough now, and no end date. That is the worst there seems no end to this

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

I’ve said all along that people are really going to appreciate life’s freedoms and pleasures after this.

From eating out, the cinema, for me stuff like ice skating at the Royal Pavilion, to travel and holidays.

For the majority whose incomes will hold up, it wouldn’t surprise if there was actually a bit of a boom in hitherto restricted sectors.

Should people feel grateful for the freedoms the government allows ?

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

Worst year of my life in terms of happiness. It's just been utterly shite.

Best year of my life in terms of finance. Saved loads and earned loads.

Until they tax the arse off you. This free money rushi has been dishing out has to come back

 

[Return of the Rev]

Loved the first lock down, less people about, less litter, great walks and lazy days drinking in the garden. Lockdown 2 not really noticed it tbh. Lucky to be retired so no job worries tbf.[SUB][SUB][/SUB][/SUB]

 

[NorthstandRacoon]

As others have said, it was almost a slight excitement and amazement at how big this all is and has been and then it quickly dawned on me that it really is, bloody shit. Too many preventable deaths, still happening now and losing even more faith in our Government after backing them initially, before Cummings, was a real low blow for me. I thought it'd unite us more with the Government, but it's been everything but that.

I definitely realise how much we rely on the NHS and how amazing they and our key workers, often the poorest in our society, are and still continue to be. Hats off to each and everyone of them.

I was made redundant after 10 years in aviation, which was a very hard pill to swallow, but I found a new an exciting job which I am so thankful and lucky for and in-between my new job and old, I started working with a mate of mine landscaping and building some stunning gardens, which in the summer, was great fun and I really enjoyed myself. Got to think positive, based on that.

Missing live music, clubs, going home and away with Brighton and just having the sense of being free to do what we want. We are very lucky we have some of the best scientists in the world here in the UK, because I can now see the beginning of the end with this vaccine which is such a great feeling.

I just hope we use this as a time to reset the button and start by introducing green alternatives to our way of living, which has already started I think.