/leftypol/ - Leftist Politically Incorrect

I think so. There are certain things I more or less stopped doing after precautions were lifted and I've become more reclusive minus going to work. That's one thing that changed during covid time for me was that I stopped neeting like I had before. I actually worked more during that time than I had before and have continued since. But it didn't make me any more social however, it just made me work more. I actually wear a mask at work even though I don't have to and I just feel weirder and less connected now. Of course I should add that I was never really that social to begin with and I didn't go out much before but now it's even less than that other than work. So life has just become more dreary and less enjoyable although that might also be because I'm older now.

The lockdowns and the vax made righties completely lose their shit

It showed me what being human could be about. I ate so much acid during lockdown

>>2733676
The worst part is that what happened in the western world could barely be fucking called a lock-down. Oh boo hoo you were -advised- to wear masks and social distance. Kids had to do class on zoom instead of getting sick and spreading it or dying. The horror!
China did a proper lockdown with an actual strictly enforced quarantine AND IT WAS FUCKING WORKING SUPER EFFECTIVELY, the only reason they stopped is because of international pressure. If everyone had done what China did we could have eradicated covid. Instead it's now yet another new normal making everyone's lives worse that we just have to accept.

>>2734555
ALSO regarding the """lockdown""" everyone talks about how much it hampered kids. You know what actually did? The fucking brainfog from covid infections! We have allowed an entire generation to be brain-damaged! In 30 years people are going to be talking about it the way we talk about leaded gasoline now.

>>2734555
You have no idea of what happened in Europe. The lockdown was much more strict in Italy and France.
Also the lockdown in China went so great that after 2 years, people started protesting, and once the CPC started easing regulations suddenly, many boomers died because they had not developed any immunity to COVID. Chinese people are still pissed off at how badly it was managed (some people died during a fire too because their building was walled up, everybody has seen the video by now), and now with the slow economic recession when I talk to people they don't seem terribly happy about the last 5 years in China.

>>2734561
Go back to /pol/.

>>2733676
Covid was the moment the American socdem movement died. Perfect time to agitate for a public healthcare system and they just didn't for some reason. The rise of the "anti-lockdown left" outed so many people for what they really believe in.

>>2733676
My life did not change a single bit during the pandemic except for having to wear a mask at work

>>2734543
Vax schizos really are something else. A lot of them genuinely believe that the hundreds of millions to billions who took the poke are going to drop dead.

>>2733676
I'm pretty sure this world was always mindbroken.

>>2734665
Why are americans obsessed with the apocalypse and zombie scenarios?

there's no such thing as a functioning mind when you're born in this universe, on this planet, in this age of death and destruction. everyone is a tiny cog in a giant machine they can't control and the machine is bleeding out. the climate is wrecked. ww3 is here. humanity is destroying the only home they have. i picked up my cousin's kid from preschool today. the teacher handed me a flyer with AI slop leprechauns on it. she literally boiled the ocean to make leprechaun slop and then printed it out on dead trees. everyone is insane or blissfully ignorant. burgers actually think they're the good guys of history still. interview a normie on the street and tell me you don't want to kill yourself. .

>>2734693
its like a fantasy where the system you hate is dead and you can be the main hero in a film. There's no more messy real life, rules, managers, taxes, debt, cops. You can go back to a simpler time in these survivalist scenarios, a man living with his dog in a cabin in the woods.

>>2734735
they can do that now. literally no-one is stopping them. Porky only sends the pigs to burn all your possessions and gangrape you if you try to do it in a city.

>>2733676
Mental illness is contagious. The mania from internet addiction was bad enough before covid, the lockdown made the algorithm the master of reality for most of the world. The same madman who commanded the world's attention at that time is still doing so in the present. There won't be a bounce back until the world is able to relax and think again.

>>2734665
What COVID did was break trust in government in liberal democracies across a broad cross-section of the population. At least in my country people saw reactive responses and bad attempts at social manipulation based on false information where the direction just switched without explanation. They saw celebrities flying about while relatives were trapped overseas due to closed borders. They saw genuine harm from vaccines which was basically covered up by the government.

Institutions in the west just demonstrated how poorly they functioned in a crisis and politicians were reactive, parochial and foolish. In Australia people died because they weren't allowed to cross state borders to receive medical care. Hospitals were shut down for all non-emergency surgery (which is anything that wouldn't immediately kill you) for the general population because they imaged a flood of critical care COVID cases which didn't eventuate. The problem is there hasn't been an actual public lessons learned from all of this so the stupid reactiveness of that period will repeated when inevitably it happens again.

On a personal note I know two people who were directly affected. One had myo-pericarditis within 24 hours of the shot. He was a fit 25 y/o who can't even climb a flight of stairs now. It was acknowledged as a vaccine related injury and he received nominal compensation that isn't even a couple months of wages. Another was a young person who was denied routine but non-emergency cancer treatment for months because in Australia our COVID response led to hospital shut down and by the time they were able to have it resolved the disease turned out to be worse than expected and life-limiting.

>>2734796
>One had myo-pericarditis within 24 hours of the shot. He was a fit 25 y/o who can't even climb a flight of stairs now.
Yeah, myocarditis is a potential side effect of both the shot and covid itself, I'll give you that. How'd he find out?

>>2734807
The next day he woke up and thought he was having a heart attack. Wasn't subtle. At least for him.

>>2734807
There were some shocking side effects: www.news.com.au/lifestyle/health/health-problems/my-life-is-on-hold-young-tradie-blinded-after-moderna-vaccine-denied-compensation/news-story/ecefe023035617123c78aa4321e8fc9e%3famp

Governments made a risk based decision that not informing individuals to ensure higher uptake was worth it. The people who did suffer as a result will just have to personally pay the price and the decision will never challenged or revisited. It's a big failure and understandably when people see stuff like this they create crazy shit to try and fill the gaps in their own understanding.

>>2734807
I got the vax back in 2021 and while I have no side effects, I'm still paranoid that it will kill me to the point where I have been in and out of the ER the past few months because I keep thinking I'm dying. They've done blood work, ekg, leg ultrasounds and found nothing but I may just be going insane from staying alone in my dorm room 24/7 aside from class. I fucking hate uni but I also think I'm gonna have a heart attack or stroke or clot randomly because I keep hearing about young people dying suddenly.
But I was also paraoid like this back in 2017-2018 to the point where they put me in a mental ward.
Also paranoid about ukraine, iran, and all this other shit that I can't control. Turning 30 sucks

It was pretty retarded to fuck up the economy so bad for what is basically a flu.
Everything became worse since covid not just the people. The second order effect of the lockdowns have been worse than the virus itself.
All of this to save rabid boomers too lol…

>>2734871
I hate how early everything closes now and how a lot of walmarts and targets got rid of places to fucking sit down.

Microplastics are far more likely to be causing the problems that people blame on covid or the vax

>>2734848
your hypochondria will kill you. you are spiking your cortisol over paranoid fantasies and you will wreck your mind and body that way. become a zero-fucks-given gigachad.

>>2734618
same

>>2734740
Which is why it's just a fantasy for them. They can always say "society" is what's holding them back from doing it, while deep down inside they know they're a fucking pussy that would likely die in the first month.

My cousin got COVID and still hasn't gotten her sense of smell or taste back
I bet the virus is fucking people up long term

>>2734665
meanwhile you thought people who didn't get vaxxed would drop dead.
lmao

>>2735512
No I didn't

>>2735557
maybe but I know many libshits who did and also saw it a lot on twitter and the bunker too

many were also mocking people who feared vaccine injuries too, as if these were not real, particularly with the experimental western ones

>>2734555
as a teacher, I have to say that there is an obvious difference between kids who had the semester or so in lockdown compared to previous classes, especially the younger ones. They missed out on the social engagement and are quite frankly dumber. They're still catching up. I've had 4th graders that still hold a pencil like a caveman.

>>2735461
>My cousin got COVID and still hasn't gotten her sense of smell or taste back
I know people who never got theirs back fully, too. That was the worst part for me. I still had to go into work during lockdown and beyond that I was a homebody because I lived in the middle of nowhere, so socially not much changed, but not having a sense of taste or smell for a couple of weeks was a nightmare.

>>2734875
Consoomer world never came back to pre pandemic and yes as a moderate treatlerite it's pissing me off.
The few processed goods i used to like changed their ingredients and it dont taste the same anymore or became super expensive so i only eat local non processed stuff now which is boring as hell.
The supply line also never recovered so lots of things are out of stock half of the month every month. Places that became understaffed during covid are still understaffed so everything run worse.
Lots of nice boutiques and restaurants closed to never reoppen and most restaurants order are uberteat golems now.

>>2735461
Sadly even a hard flu can do this. The last i had (wasnt covid) it took me a full year to get my taste and smell back. It can be a very traumatic virus for the body and brain.

>>2734555
China lifted their lockdown because of domestic pressure you retard.

>>2736807
I like how it's minimized as just a loss of sense of smell when what people are describing is brain damage.

>>2734871
>It was pretty retarded to fuck up the economy so bad for what is basically a flu.
You're a fucking retard

>>2737976
It’s non damaged brains that created this status quo in the first place

I have sympathy for people who had to stay home with an abusive partner or something like that, but the people who got mindbroken by staying home for a few months and getting paid stimulus checks to watch netflix genuinely had something broken in them to begin with. A society that produces millions of people like that is destined to crumble to dust.

>>2738024
I'm right. It was deeply stupid and insane obese hypocondriacs who cried about no-lockdowns being "eugenic" because some landwhales and 95 year old grandmas on the brink of death would die are hysterical narcissists.
It's morbid intersectionality.

one thing that doesn't get talked about much is the fact that the lockdown forced a seizure of the means of production by the white collar working class who worked from home without any supervision for over a year. it was proven to the entire world that office spaces and management in most industries are largely unnecessary, the workers can do their jobs just fine without having to drive to an office or be supervised by a boss, that entire companies can in fact run themselves without executives presiding over it all and hoarding all of the profits. this revelation understandably sent shockwaves of terror through the ruling class and brought us to the situation we are in now, with this massive push for automation and replacing the working class jobs with artificial intelligence before it dawns on the general population that the ones who are truly expendable are the managers and executives who don't really do anything.

>>2738467

your extremely obvious attention seeking behavior is more of a burden to society than any landwhale or grandmother