there's uyghas in their 30s claiming covid lockdown ruined their social life
>>780455Personally I think being a little sad for a year and getting poked by a couple tiny needles is better than dying or being permanently crippled but what do I know.
I think these people didn't have much of a social life before lockdowns but they still left the house a bit. You know just to watch an occasional movie or take a stroll around a mall once or twice a month. Maybe get a haircut every once in a while or shop at Walmart once in a while. But afterwards, maybe because of a bit hypochondria or germophobia or just general unease maybe agoraphobia they stopped doing those things. That's kind of what happened to me.
What if your social life was shit before covid and the pando had literally no affect on anything for you? Then what?
>>780466Yeah some people's lives are a bit less secure than others; it also doesn't help that some people are noticeably more anti-social than before which puts those with social anxiety just over the threshold of wanting to go out.
Mine was greatly improved by it.
I'd like to add some more to this. While I think that it is largely 30+ year olds with very little social life who say these kinds of things it might also be related that at your 30s you often see he consequences of aging more if not in yourself but also others especially in older relatives. During covid in particular you saw how fragile they could be since it was older people who were the most affected by the outbreaks, at least health wise. Maybe it's like a fear of mortality that finally hits you like you realize they'll be dead sooner rather than later. And during this covid period it was happening at a somewhat accelerated rate. You become afraid for them and also for yourself as you yourself aren't getting any younger. Then you add in all the fear mongering that happened during the events, the hope for a better world that was seemingly breaking through and the crashing back to depressing reality that I feel we are currently in and you get the feeling of ruin that at least some feel.
>>783312>say these kinds of things it might also be related that at your 30s you often see he consequences of aging more if not in yourself but also others especially in older relativesI think it’s more that people treat your thirties as the start of senescence rather than any observation of consequences of aging.
A lot of younger people are also age-sensitive as well.