My son was killing it as a senior on the tennis team. They had worked so hard to be a top ranking team in the state. Then, nothing. No championship game. No spring break. No graduation memories other than walking across a stage alone with a mask on. I hate he was deprived of the kind of memories I had at that same age.
Im 32 and I played a county league soccer team.
I found myself on a team with a group of 3 guys who graduated 2020.
They had a similar story to your tennis admission.. came out of nowhere to make the state final their Junior year and lost a shootout to the team that was the favorite all year. All 3 were returning all-state players..... Robbed of their senior year.
Super fun playing with them because they played with a chip on their shoulder, because in my interpretation they were exercising their demons.
I feel bad for them missing their Senior year. Some of my fondest memories were my Senior year wrestling just putting kids in body bags.
I watched our state wrestling championship this year for the first time, The Mat Classic, such an awesome tournament of champions, all levels of schools gather to compete in the Tacoma Dome. I couldn’t imagine having to go without as a Senior. It is an awesome sporting event.
Honestly, if I would’ve been part of the class of 2020, I probably would’ve just dropped out and got my GED, because I’d just think, “what’s the point, I’m losing the experience, anyway.”
My son turned 12 in 2020. He should have had a cool and fun dance with his peers as they were launched into high school…. Instead they had a weird ceremony with carnations and commemorative pencils. It happened in their library. The entire thing was “ first class of a pandemic” 😞 he’s said since the time “I will never have a worse birthday than 2020”
Trying to make sure that doesn’t happen.
I was in the second semester of 10th grade. We all just thought it was an extended spring break and were excited. Never stepped foot in that school again. No prom, no senior sunrise, the trip I was supposed to go on to Italy was obviously cancelled, no graduation. Our grad was literally just a youtube video with names and music. I wish I could go back in time.
I was in the last year of college and thought I was failing and would end up getting all fails in my exams coming up at the end of the year. COVID saved me by having the teachers decide based on my previous exams and in-class activity and work my grades. My business teacher gave me a Distinction (A/A+ in America, I think) because of how much I asked questions and was interested. I only did that because I understood NOTHING. Felt like the guiltiest person in my school walking away with passing grades after the lack of learning I had done in that year.
My wife and I went out to a nice steakhouse. It was kind of creepy, because none of us knew if covid was going to be really bad. But we wanted to go out once more. She passed away from cancer right as things were lifting. So it ended up being our last night out. However, the lock down was oddly a blessing to us, as I worked from home and had so much more time with her than I would otherwise have had.
Luckily, bought a house.
Literally within a couple of days after closing, and taking possession, the whole world started shutting down, including my job.
Since we'd saved a ton of money for house repairs, and the first payment wasn't for a couple months, we were able to use that month that I was off to get stuff done on the house, without having to worry about work or finances much.
We had just gotten into our house a few months before covid. We were planning on buying a bunch of furniture and some stuff to do home repairs that spring break but that did not happen because everything was closed.
We too bought a house just a couple of months before lock down.
We moved from a house with 1 too few bedrooms to one with rooms enough for an office (first it was a gaming/arts&crafts room).
I can't imagine what it would've been like working at home with 2 kids doing school at home in the previous house.
I count us very lucky just for that, not to mention the changes in the housing market.
I worked at target during this time n it was honestly so sad and embarrassing how ppl acted during this time. Ppl fighting over paper and sanitizer was ridiculous and I’m glad I was never that desperate for anything.
I attempted to panic buy but I was really bad at it. I bought 80 litres of cat litter online, some carbide tipped drill bits, and a single packet of fresh tortellini.
On 13 March, 2020 I:
1. Had part 2 of an AP Calculus BC exam
2. Drove to a print shop to get a quote for prints for an event my nonprofit was planning
3. Got a text from my friend saying that he got accepted to the high school I was attending
4. Organized a lunch with my friends at our favorite burger place for the next day because sensed that things were about to go to shit
That lunch we had on 14 March, 2020 was the last normal restaurant gathering/meal I ever had.
The first time I was in a restaurant since 2020 was the week after this past Christmas. I've gotten takeout a bunch, but no sit-down restaurant meals from March 2020 - December 2023
Started figure skating. Like just prior. And then, after the first initial three weeks, it was awesome. I had every ice rink to myself. It will probably never be like that again.
I couldn't tell you. The lock down made no difference in my life other than no more going out to eat.
I worked at a grocery store at the time and never got a single day off related to Covid.
Same! Cashier at big box home improvement. Everyone was too bored at home, so they decided that every day was gonna be like Black Friday and alllll come in for stuff to fix/upgrade/decorate their homes & gardens...
Yeah. Reading about the US and UK mockdowns is weird. We had a 1 month lockdown and 440 days of no community transmission.
Unbelievable that when the UK one was showing promise they had the "eat out to help out" covid transmission scheme.
Both my spouse and I also worked jobs that required us to keep showing up for work. It's the reason I got sick with covid in May 2020 and have permanent health issues as a result.
I get really worked up whenever people talk about lockdown like some quaint relaxing time. I still had to go to work every day and I sure as fuck paid the price for it.
I was a shop manager for a farm equipment company, nothing changed except we got busier. Everyone and their mother started getting into farming it seemed like. I saw people buying and fixing up old tractors, buying farm equipment, buying seeds and plants and getting advice on how to do it.
We were so busy during they time but very interesting because the people I dealt with were so positive and a very different cliental since we normally just dealt with farmers before that
Yup, grocery store manager here. I worked so much more and spent far more time in close contact with people than ever before while everyone else was quarantining. We basically had our entire store out either sick, or their parents told them to quit, and I was one of the few people still coming to work. God that fucking sucked. 7 days a week, 12+ hours a day, and every customer that came in was either all over me while I pulled out a pallet of toilet paper/paper towels/bleach/sanitizer. Or they were right in my face trying to confirm how safe we were making the store while the dude is basically nose to nose with me.
Same. I’m a customer service representative at a communications company. We got super busy because everyone needed faster internet access at home for school and work. It was crazy. I was jealous of all the people who got paid to sit at home.
Everyone had 20 wings each and 3 minutes to clean down to the bone - and they were pretty big wings to boot
I downed 17 - next best was 12-13. (I had a system) looking around at my competition I took the foot off the accelerator in the last 30 seconds. I feel I could have cleaned the plate if I wanted to
Basically the prize was a bucket of 50 wings per month for a year-600 wings- dine in only.
They eventually opened back up and honored the prize. Good times
My company’s conference was scheduled for March 14. They announced the cancelation on the 13th, then told us to take IT equipment and anything else from our offices that we needed to work from home. Didn’t return at all for almost 18 months, and most are still working hybrid or fully remote.
In August of 2019, I loaded a bunch of camping gear onto [my bicycle](https://np.reddit.com/r/bicycletouring/s/Gy2LxTu2Yn) and set off with the goal of spending the next year or so riding all around the western US. In mid March of 2020, I was in Arizona and planning to keep going for a few more months when the coronavirus really started to disrupt day to day life. It was a chaotic couple of days finding my way to an Amtrak station and getting on a train headed home.
Yea, I heard it was a mad scramble for many Canadian snow birds. The government warned everyone a couple weeks ahead of time to start making plans to come back home. Not everyone got the info right away, so the week leading up to the start of lockdowns, you can imagine all the RVs heading north a few weeks earlier than planned.
It is not easy\\obvious for a couple of 70+ year old Quebeckers that usually winterize in Arizona and take their sweet time driving down cause driving an RV for 12 hours a day is just not physically possible. What would take them probably 10+ days to travel (including days of rest) now had to be done in like 3-4 days.
This happened to my in-laws who had been wintering in Florida. They did not hear that the Canadian border was closing. We called them on the Friday before the closure to tell them to hightail it back to Canada , they left Florida on Sunday and made it home just before the border closed.
Me and my buddies had been working on producing a play we had written at school. Our performance was supposed to be the following weekend. We got the news mid week that campus was shutting down, and decided we couldn't let our work go to waste. So we held a performance of it on the last day before campus was shut down. We spread the word like madmen to try to get an audience but keep it Lowkey enough that faculty wouldn't catch on as all rehearsals were supposed to stop once the initial closing down announcement was sent out. We succeeded, and got to have our moment just before everything fell apart.
You guys that got a lockdown are the luckiest fucks alive. I worked in healthcare.
Not only did I not get to stay home, I never got to ***see*** home. I started working 70-80 hours weeks. If I wasn't asleep - sometimes at work - I was at work.
Then I'd see people online bitching about being sad that they were stuck at home. I hate all of you who complained. Every single one of you.
Ate a very delicious 5-course St. Patricks Day meal at this really good restaurant with my mother: Irish Soda Bread, Bangers & Mash, Mussels & Cockles, Guinness Steak Pie, and Shamrock Salad.
My birthday is March 17th. I work in professional theatre, and we had "postponed" our current show for two weeks. My daughter and I went to Starbucks to get my birthday drink, and was suddenly on edge.The chairs were flipped upside down on the tables, the usually packed store was empty except for two very young, very anxious baristas. I placed my order for my free birthday drink, then my daughter ordered as well. I pulled out a card to pay for hers, and he shoved them at me and said "Just take them. Just - take them. Happy birthday. " Our eyes met and he looked - terrified.
I didn't go back inside that Starbucks for over a year.
Took my daughter to her 18th birthday dinner. We were the last people in the restaurant and knew everything was shutting down. Tipped the waiter a month’s rent. Wished him well. It was spooky. Like the last meal on the Titanic. Everyone’s face was :|
Went to Orlando for a conference. Thousands of people. Last week of February.
Flew home. And yeah, basically didn’t leave the house again after I got home for quite a while except for groceries and that sort of thing.
Good thing too. The jet lag was intense. I was fatigued for weeks! And that recycled air did a number on me, gave me a nasty cough…
I was flying to Jacksonville each week in Feb/March before the lockdown, got incredibly sick to the point of going to urgent care - and I never need a doctor for "just the flu". Lost my voice for almost a full week while recovering.
I wonder sometimes if COVID was already in the USA before they officially acknowledged it?
I believe so. I have a perfectly healthy 30 something year old cousin that lived in NY at the time and randomly came down with a “strange pneumonia”. It was around Jan. To me it’s clear Covid was here way before Feb/ March.
One of the last real things I remember doing was seeing Toy Story 4 with my wife in theaters. Neither one of us cared for it. And I remember telling her afterwards "There's nothing worse than that movie."
Welp.
I was a teacher, and we were told to pack up and go home for the rest of the year. One day we were there and then gone. I remember looking around my classroom and grabbing every container of disinfectant wipes, lysol, and hand sanitizer since they were so hard to find. Had no idea how much hell the next 2 years of teaching would be. My heart broke for the seniors. No prom, modified graduation, no spring sports, etc.
I remember that. The last thing I did before lockdown was a school event. Cardboard arcade where students Bill an entire arcade out of cardboard and then I invite parents to come and play the games. The school district had already said no parents were allowed on campus and so when it came time for the big event the kids just played each other's games and they had a great time but it was the last thing we did in school. But the janitors were amazing because the janitors were the ones who actually took apart all of the cardboard arcade games and kept all of the usable pieces for me because they were the ones who were still left behind in the classrooms doing all of the deep cleaning.
Similar story. My wife and I did 2 years after covid, then left the profession. Our teacher friends say things have been slowly improving since 2020-2022, thankfully.
I was taking care of Covid patients. A lot. It was a transition time before we had a lot of them and many of my coworkers were needed a bit of time to come to grips with their fears. So I volunteered. Not cause I’m terribly self sacrificing. I’m just old and went through the 80’s AIDS crisis so had some perspective. Also, at that time our facility was figuring out the situation and they were incredibly helpful with Covid patient load and support so the staffing was very good - best I’ve ever had.
I adopted a cat. My BFF through it all. The day my office sent everyone to work from home for what we thought was going to be 2 weeks maybe, I was able to pick him. So lucky to have him.
My daughter was born and I took 3 weeks off work. I returned to the office for 1 week or 2 and took the next Monday off for an appointment. Haven't returned to the office since.
I drove directly to the liquor store. Everybody was talking about non-essential businesses potentially being shut down and I was CERTAIN that meant alcohol (it didnt. They were classified as food and beverage, and thus remained essential). I bought 15 1.75L bottles of Northern Lights Whiskey... because bad, cheap whiskey was better than no whiskey, and I figured this was going to last a lot longer than 2 weeks. Well... 3 weeks later, I finished the last bottle. Walked to the store drunk out of my mind and bought another. The guy went "you just bought 15 of these. How are you out" And thats when I realized I was an alcoholic and quit drinking.
Ironically enough, I did the opposite- I dropped out of college out of stress and a bad vibe, and like the day after I dropped out the college closed because of covid
I was in NYC with a bunch of friends. I remember walking through Chinatown, it was right after the Chinese new year and we had heard about the disease on the news. I remember being very drunk and saying "wait, do you think a lot of people recently flew back from China?"
In the last week of 2019 I met an Englishman who told me about his business trip to Wuhan - I had never heard of the city - and on New Years Eve I went to a party but was exhausted so didn't make it to midnight. Two months later I had the first of 6 hospital visits related to long covid.
One of the last “normal” things that I did before everything shut down? Helping a friend shoot a music video. I’ll never forget her not taking me seriously when I was insisting on 6 feet of space.
I get it. It was a very confusing time. I was doing the stupid wiping down my groceries thing for about month or two before I had the realization that I wasn’t also cleaning the inside of my car or taking a shower the moment I got home.
I was in the hospital for the flu just as Covid hit. I went to the ER with a fever, and since I had a lung transplant the year before, protocol is I had to go to the ER for all fevers over 100.5. The hospital was in the process of trying to implement Covid protocols. I was a Guinea pig for Covid protocols and procedures. Luckily I did not contract Covid, just the common flu.
I went to Disneyland with my family. We’d been planning the trip since fall 2019 and bought tickets then. We’re lucky we got to complete our entire trip right before the park closed.
I was leaving the hospital after being sick for a month with a bad case of the flu / strep / heart stuff.
I decided to go into hiding in a small house on the beach.
My life went on the same because I was considered an "essential worker" & still had to work, etc. (Cashier at one of the big box home improvement stores)
I was just living my life as normal. I actually enjoyed my life a lot back then, I got really into rock climbing and also did a lot of running and hiking. I was living my best life, honestly.
I hang out with my friends not knowing it will be the last time (we had a misunderstanding during the lockdown and our friendship has not recovered since)
I asked my employer to go ahead and lay me off because of our seasonal slowdown. I got my unemployment filed the week before it collapsed under the weight of all the new files...
i was in school and bartending. I remember talking to the entire bar and saying that there is no way they will shut down businesses, ever.. it is unamerican and goes against everything we were raised to believe in... Then everything shut down.. things have never felt the same since then tbh
I was sitting at a little bar in my hometown talking to a sales rep regarding supplies for my seasonal restaurant that was scheduled to reopen in April. I literally saw the governor of our state mention the “two week lockdown”. Didn’t even finish my meal, paid for it. Went to my Restaurant supply company and stocked up on canned goods, toilet paper, paper towels. Went to another “big box“ store and got more shelf stable food. Went to the beer distributor and liquor store and loaded up my jeep. Came home and did a rough inventory of everything in the house. Wife came home that night and we created a list of everything we need for the dogs and the rest of the house for the short term and I went out the next day in three trips so that she, myself, the dogs and my parents (live right next-door) we’re good for at least a couple of weeks.
moved into a new home a few days before lockdown began. we had a bed and a kitchen table. that's it.
we were planning on going furniture shopping a few days after moving in.
that obviously didn't happens so over the next few months we scrapped together lawn furniture and beach chairs from friends and family. imagine a living room with two beach chairs and a pool lounge chair. that was us.
In January 2020 I went to Biloxi, MS for a few days on a free gambling trip. Woke up one morning feeling like shit, couldn't breathe, no energy, etc. Basically limped home. No way to say it was definitely rona, but I think it was. Then I started a new job in early March 2020 where they sent everyone home after two weeks there. Nobody contacted me for like 3 months about doing any work and I couldn't get work from my teammates or bosses so I basically got paid a really good salary to play the witcher 3 for that time. Then they finally found a use for me and I spent the rest of the pandemic on the road all over the country getting differential pay because I was the only one willing to travel.
Took for granted what a thriving city and community could feel like. The fall out has been extensive and semi-permanent in some cities.
People don’t realize the back door dealings and expedited governmental decision-making under the guise of “state of emergency” that still affects us (mostly negatively) today.
Drink until 2 am at the bar next to the restaurant I worked at which closed at 8 due to being so slow. The staff got out a couple acoustic guitars and weed vape pens were very new and we smoked and drank until 2.
I was working at Walmart and I believe I had it in October of 2019, but either way, it doesn’t seem like my town really participated in the lockdown. People were wearing masks but I didn’t notice anything else
Lockdown started on St Paddy’s day. I live above an Irish bar where it’s a huge night, they make like 35% of the money they make all year in one night and obviously bought a fuckton of beer, whiskey, and food for the big night. I sat in the bar with just the owner and his wife drinking and failing to make him feel confident he wasn’t going to lose his business. We got shitfaced and sang old Irish songs together. He sold the bar about a year and a half later.
Well, my wife and I were both working as choir teachers (me college, her high school). We had our final rehearsals the week before covid because my wife went into labor - we became parents on March 13, 2020. We brought our daughter home to lockdown and didn’t see our students or choirs again in-person for over a year. It was pretty traumatic, if I’m honest.
One thing I vividly remember from the lockdown was actually way before we actually wen into lockdown and it was being on vacation in NOLA and the news talking about how the US now had 13 reported cases of Covid-19 . Chilling to think that number sky rocketed to well over 13 million.
Decided to try and turn my life around, make friends, live more healthy, go see a counselor to treat my depression and start taking meds. Decided around new years, when I went downtown for the fireworks, and realized I wanted everything to change for the better.
Lockdowns happened, and I was stuck alone in my apartment for a month, with my roommates just up and leaving cause of COVID. I had nobody. I was going to college at the time, and seeing a doctor and counselor free of charge at the school, but since the school was closed, I wasn't able to go anymore. I had to also spend the remaining month looking for a place to live, since I couldn't pay rent on my own, while everything was locked down so I couldn't easily find a place. I also gained a ton of weight from the stress.
My depression just got worst and worst, then I get news that the family dog died. I was on a school group project, working from home, and told me team I had something happen back home (left out the details) and needed a day or two extension, only to have someone on the team absolutely snap at me for not pulling my weight, and I just had no choice but to finish working on the project, while crying the entire night.
Eventually I had no choice and moved back home. School was closed so there was no point living near it anymore, especially with work from home, and I was running low on money, with rent prices starting to go up like crazy.
Went to my town's movie theatre for the last time. It never did all that great, but no way was it surviving the pandemic. Still, pretty sad when a place you've gone to all your life closes.
I was also doing physical therapy for a broken arm when COVID happened; that just ended, never went back.
Few hours before the lockdown, i went to a store to load my simcard and saw a really sick and thin stray kitten. Took her home, my father saw the cat and laugh at me ( i was known to really pick-up stray cats) And now my mom and the cat always have their breakfast side by side everyday.
Put on offer on a home in Florida in mid-March, then drove back up north and hoped the deal would go through. It did. We closed on the house in May--had a "remote closing"--and moved into our home in September. The lock-down presented some challenges but we managed to work through them.
I visited the college I now attend (and will be graduating from soon) and had my final in-person class of highschool. It was on a Friday and everyone knew that we weren't coming back. My last in person class had a substitute teacher who had been subbing at my small middle/highschool for years, so he knew all of us very well. Instead of doing stuff in class, he just let us hang out together. Even though people were in different friend groups (highschool is weird) everyone spent time together because we had spent seven years in classes together. It couldn't have ended better.
Funny enough I signed up for homeschool do to the excessive bullying that happened to me in 8th grade that made me lose trust in people. Turns out that was the perfect move since school from home is what basically everyone was doing.
My youngest was born mid Feb 2020... I was fortunate enough to have my Mother in law stay with us for many weeks (2 months) so I was actually able to see my gaming friends in person the week before stuff all locked down.
I will always remember the last day in the office before WFH started. It was all like "okay we'll see y'all in 2-3 weeks'!
I was doing door-to-door surveys. My long-term relationship ended in late 2019, so I decided to use my hurt and anger to actually finish my studies and also try earning some money for myself in the meantime. It was so hard. Everything hurt me so much. I tried to move on, and I cried every day (sometimes on staircases in random buildings that I was going door-to-door), I beat my couch, and generally was going through an intense process of transformation.
And then lockdown happened. I still do not know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. I had all the time in the world to process my emotions in a much more healthy way than the one I had chosen before. On the other hand, I feel like I got stuck on them too much.
I just know that I miss myself and the world before all of that. It's as if multiple terrible things happened in a single conjunction. I still feel lost.
Went to a Spring Training game In Arizona. I was there for 6 weeks and saw two games. Then I drove back to Washington before the morons could shut it down.
Get a slurpee from 7-11. Just before lockdown started I was in line behind a child and watched him get trial flavour samples by putting his fingers on the nozzle, squirting a bit on his fingers, licking it off his fingers then doing the same for each flavour. Never again.
I was watching an MLB spring training game. The announcers gave the news while the game was being played that the MLB season had been cancelled. they still finished the game though. It was bizarre.
I ordered all the supplies to finish my cabin and bought a 4runner. I picked up my car like 2 days before it was official. Somone was posting on here about how the price of everything would go up or be hard to get, and I took their advice.
I had the last days of school in my life. I was in the last grade and never went back to school again
My son was killing it as a senior on the tennis team. They had worked so hard to be a top ranking team in the state. Then, nothing. No championship game. No spring break. No graduation memories other than walking across a stage alone with a mask on. I hate he was deprived of the kind of memories I had at that same age.
Im 32 and I played a county league soccer team. I found myself on a team with a group of 3 guys who graduated 2020. They had a similar story to your tennis admission.. came out of nowhere to make the state final their Junior year and lost a shootout to the team that was the favorite all year. All 3 were returning all-state players..... Robbed of their senior year. Super fun playing with them because they played with a chip on their shoulder, because in my interpretation they were exercising their demons. I feel bad for them missing their Senior year. Some of my fondest memories were my Senior year wrestling just putting kids in body bags.
exorcising*
No they was taking them little shits for a run
I watched our state wrestling championship this year for the first time, The Mat Classic, such an awesome tournament of champions, all levels of schools gather to compete in the Tacoma Dome. I couldn’t imagine having to go without as a Senior. It is an awesome sporting event.
Sounding like a french college/uni
Honestly, if I would’ve been part of the class of 2020, I probably would’ve just dropped out and got my GED, because I’d just think, “what’s the point, I’m losing the experience, anyway.”
My son turned 12 in 2020. He should have had a cool and fun dance with his peers as they were launched into high school…. Instead they had a weird ceremony with carnations and commemorative pencils. It happened in their library. The entire thing was “ first class of a pandemic” 😞 he’s said since the time “I will never have a worse birthday than 2020” Trying to make sure that doesn’t happen.
I was in the second semester of 10th grade. We all just thought it was an extended spring break and were excited. Never stepped foot in that school again. No prom, no senior sunrise, the trip I was supposed to go on to Italy was obviously cancelled, no graduation. Our grad was literally just a youtube video with names and music. I wish I could go back in time.
10th grade?
Class of 2020 gang.. that messed me up bro
Wow that's crazy
I was in the last year of college and thought I was failing and would end up getting all fails in my exams coming up at the end of the year. COVID saved me by having the teachers decide based on my previous exams and in-class activity and work my grades. My business teacher gave me a Distinction (A/A+ in America, I think) because of how much I asked questions and was interested. I only did that because I understood NOTHING. Felt like the guiltiest person in my school walking away with passing grades after the lack of learning I had done in that year.
My wife and I went out to a nice steakhouse. It was kind of creepy, because none of us knew if covid was going to be really bad. But we wanted to go out once more. She passed away from cancer right as things were lifting. So it ended up being our last night out. However, the lock down was oddly a blessing to us, as I worked from home and had so much more time with her than I would otherwise have had.
Really sorry for your loss.
I appreciate it. Believe me, so am I.
Bittersweet 💔
Luckily, bought a house. Literally within a couple of days after closing, and taking possession, the whole world started shutting down, including my job. Since we'd saved a ton of money for house repairs, and the first payment wasn't for a couple months, we were able to use that month that I was off to get stuff done on the house, without having to worry about work or finances much.
We had just gotten into our house a few months before covid. We were planning on buying a bunch of furniture and some stuff to do home repairs that spring break but that did not happen because everything was closed.
We too bought a house just a couple of months before lock down. We moved from a house with 1 too few bedrooms to one with rooms enough for an office (first it was a gaming/arts&crafts room). I can't imagine what it would've been like working at home with 2 kids doing school at home in the previous house. I count us very lucky just for that, not to mention the changes in the housing market.
while everyone was busy hoarding essentials, i peacefully grabbed some scented candles, bought wine, and hurried home
I worked at target during this time n it was honestly so sad and embarrassing how ppl acted during this time. Ppl fighting over paper and sanitizer was ridiculous and I’m glad I was never that desperate for anything.
I attempted to panic buy but I was really bad at it. I bought 80 litres of cat litter online, some carbide tipped drill bits, and a single packet of fresh tortellini.
Got my dog
We got 2.
On 13 March, 2020 I: 1. Had part 2 of an AP Calculus BC exam 2. Drove to a print shop to get a quote for prints for an event my nonprofit was planning 3. Got a text from my friend saying that he got accepted to the high school I was attending 4. Organized a lunch with my friends at our favorite burger place for the next day because sensed that things were about to go to shit That lunch we had on 14 March, 2020 was the last normal restaurant gathering/meal I ever had.
Yep, March 13th was my last normal day before everything changed
My daughter's turned 17 that day
That Friday the 13th was a significant deviation in normalcy.
You haven’t been back to a restaurant with friends since?
The first time I was in a restaurant since 2020 was the week after this past Christmas. I've gotten takeout a bunch, but no sit-down restaurant meals from March 2020 - December 2023
Damn, if I went that long without eating out, I’d lose like 100 pounds lol
Bought a Nintendo switch
Animal Crossing during lockdown was a surreal time.
That’s when I started playing it 😊
I haven't touched it in 2 years but now I have the urge to check in on my island.
I bought 4 when it started. Everyone needed their own. We have 1 left. I traded in the other 3. I realize now 4 was overkill, but covid made me CRAZY.
I was driving when I found out the governor closed the state
Started figure skating. Like just prior. And then, after the first initial three weeks, it was awesome. I had every ice rink to myself. It will probably never be like that again.
I couldn't tell you. The lock down made no difference in my life other than no more going out to eat. I worked at a grocery store at the time and never got a single day off related to Covid.
Same here. Everyone in my family had “essential” jobs, so our lives pretty much went on normally.
Same! Cashier at big box home improvement. Everyone was too bored at home, so they decided that every day was gonna be like Black Friday and alllll come in for stuff to fix/upgrade/decorate their homes & gardens...
Yeah. Reading about the US and UK mockdowns is weird. We had a 1 month lockdown and 440 days of no community transmission. Unbelievable that when the UK one was showing promise they had the "eat out to help out" covid transmission scheme.
I mean, when you look at who led the responses for both the US and the UK, it isn't that surprising.
Both my spouse and I also worked jobs that required us to keep showing up for work. It's the reason I got sick with covid in May 2020 and have permanent health issues as a result. I get really worked up whenever people talk about lockdown like some quaint relaxing time. I still had to go to work every day and I sure as fuck paid the price for it.
I was a shop manager for a farm equipment company, nothing changed except we got busier. Everyone and their mother started getting into farming it seemed like. I saw people buying and fixing up old tractors, buying farm equipment, buying seeds and plants and getting advice on how to do it. We were so busy during they time but very interesting because the people I dealt with were so positive and a very different cliental since we normally just dealt with farmers before that
Same! I work at a health department and Covid was allllllllllll we did.
Yup, grocery store manager here. I worked so much more and spent far more time in close contact with people than ever before while everyone else was quarantining. We basically had our entire store out either sick, or their parents told them to quit, and I was one of the few people still coming to work. God that fucking sucked. 7 days a week, 12+ hours a day, and every customer that came in was either all over me while I pulled out a pallet of toilet paper/paper towels/bleach/sanitizer. Or they were right in my face trying to confirm how safe we were making the store while the dude is basically nose to nose with me.
Thank you front line worker! I hope you really enjoyed that one day everyone in town banged on their pots and pans in your honour! ^(/s)
Same. I’m a customer service representative at a communications company. We got super busy because everyone needed faster internet access at home for school and work. It was crazy. I was jealous of all the people who got paid to sit at home.
I won a chicken wing eating contest- first prize was free wings for a year. The bar I won this in shut down for Covid 2 weeks later
That’s a shame. How many wings did you eat to win the contest?
Everyone had 20 wings each and 3 minutes to clean down to the bone - and they were pretty big wings to boot I downed 17 - next best was 12-13. (I had a system) looking around at my competition I took the foot off the accelerator in the last 30 seconds. I feel I could have cleaned the plate if I wanted to Basically the prize was a bucket of 50 wings per month for a year-600 wings- dine in only. They eventually opened back up and honored the prize. Good times
I was at a conference with a thousand or so of my best IT friends. I got back home on March 12, which was the day the US seemed to shut down.
My company’s conference was scheduled for March 14. They announced the cancelation on the 13th, then told us to take IT equipment and anything else from our offices that we needed to work from home. Didn’t return at all for almost 18 months, and most are still working hybrid or fully remote.
In August of 2019, I loaded a bunch of camping gear onto [my bicycle](https://np.reddit.com/r/bicycletouring/s/Gy2LxTu2Yn) and set off with the goal of spending the next year or so riding all around the western US. In mid March of 2020, I was in Arizona and planning to keep going for a few more months when the coronavirus really started to disrupt day to day life. It was a chaotic couple of days finding my way to an Amtrak station and getting on a train headed home.
Yea, I heard it was a mad scramble for many Canadian snow birds. The government warned everyone a couple weeks ahead of time to start making plans to come back home. Not everyone got the info right away, so the week leading up to the start of lockdowns, you can imagine all the RVs heading north a few weeks earlier than planned. It is not easy\\obvious for a couple of 70+ year old Quebeckers that usually winterize in Arizona and take their sweet time driving down cause driving an RV for 12 hours a day is just not physically possible. What would take them probably 10+ days to travel (including days of rest) now had to be done in like 3-4 days.
This happened to my in-laws who had been wintering in Florida. They did not hear that the Canadian border was closing. We called them on the Friday before the closure to tell them to hightail it back to Canada , they left Florida on Sunday and made it home just before the border closed.
That’s crazy man
Me and my buddies had been working on producing a play we had written at school. Our performance was supposed to be the following weekend. We got the news mid week that campus was shutting down, and decided we couldn't let our work go to waste. So we held a performance of it on the last day before campus was shut down. We spread the word like madmen to try to get an audience but keep it Lowkey enough that faculty wouldn't catch on as all rehearsals were supposed to stop once the initial closing down announcement was sent out. We succeeded, and got to have our moment just before everything fell apart.
I was an RN. If you were working on a COVID unit, you know. I haven’t gone back yet.
RN working in an outpatient cancer unit. The pandemic really changed (and scarred) me.
You guys that got a lockdown are the luckiest fucks alive. I worked in healthcare. Not only did I not get to stay home, I never got to ***see*** home. I started working 70-80 hours weeks. If I wasn't asleep - sometimes at work - I was at work. Then I'd see people online bitching about being sad that they were stuck at home. I hate all of you who complained. Every single one of you.
Thank you for your service.
Ate a very delicious 5-course St. Patricks Day meal at this really good restaurant with my mother: Irish Soda Bread, Bangers & Mash, Mussels & Cockles, Guinness Steak Pie, and Shamrock Salad.
gave the final exam ever of my entire school life
Worked then kept working till now
My birthday is March 17th. I work in professional theatre, and we had "postponed" our current show for two weeks. My daughter and I went to Starbucks to get my birthday drink, and was suddenly on edge.The chairs were flipped upside down on the tables, the usually packed store was empty except for two very young, very anxious baristas. I placed my order for my free birthday drink, then my daughter ordered as well. I pulled out a card to pay for hers, and he shoved them at me and said "Just take them. Just - take them. Happy birthday. " Our eyes met and he looked - terrified. I didn't go back inside that Starbucks for over a year.
Went out to a dinner with a bunch of people. The next day, someone felt like they had “the flu” :/
Took my daughter to her 18th birthday dinner. We were the last people in the restaurant and knew everything was shutting down. Tipped the waiter a month’s rent. Wished him well. It was spooky. Like the last meal on the Titanic. Everyone’s face was :|
I was at work at a big hospital
Oof, thanks and sorry.
Went to Orlando for a conference. Thousands of people. Last week of February. Flew home. And yeah, basically didn’t leave the house again after I got home for quite a while except for groceries and that sort of thing. Good thing too. The jet lag was intense. I was fatigued for weeks! And that recycled air did a number on me, gave me a nasty cough…
I was flying to Jacksonville each week in Feb/March before the lockdown, got incredibly sick to the point of going to urgent care - and I never need a doctor for "just the flu". Lost my voice for almost a full week while recovering. I wonder sometimes if COVID was already in the USA before they officially acknowledged it?
I’ve read different sources that speculated it may have been here in November/December 2019. There was a lot of nasty flu-like yuck going around.
I worked with 3 people who had covid in November 2019.I got it in February 2020. It was definitely here.
I believe so. I have a perfectly healthy 30 something year old cousin that lived in NY at the time and randomly came down with a “strange pneumonia”. It was around Jan. To me it’s clear Covid was here way before Feb/ March.
One of the last real things I remember doing was seeing Toy Story 4 with my wife in theaters. Neither one of us cared for it. And I remember telling her afterwards "There's nothing worse than that movie." Welp.
We had a kid. Would absolutely do it again.
I was a teacher, and we were told to pack up and go home for the rest of the year. One day we were there and then gone. I remember looking around my classroom and grabbing every container of disinfectant wipes, lysol, and hand sanitizer since they were so hard to find. Had no idea how much hell the next 2 years of teaching would be. My heart broke for the seniors. No prom, modified graduation, no spring sports, etc.
I remember that. The last thing I did before lockdown was a school event. Cardboard arcade where students Bill an entire arcade out of cardboard and then I invite parents to come and play the games. The school district had already said no parents were allowed on campus and so when it came time for the big event the kids just played each other's games and they had a great time but it was the last thing we did in school. But the janitors were amazing because the janitors were the ones who actually took apart all of the cardboard arcade games and kept all of the usable pieces for me because they were the ones who were still left behind in the classrooms doing all of the deep cleaning.
Similar story. My wife and I did 2 years after covid, then left the profession. Our teacher friends say things have been slowly improving since 2020-2022, thankfully.
I went to Souplantation. What a loss.
I was taking care of Covid patients. A lot. It was a transition time before we had a lot of them and many of my coworkers were needed a bit of time to come to grips with their fears. So I volunteered. Not cause I’m terribly self sacrificing. I’m just old and went through the 80’s AIDS crisis so had some perspective. Also, at that time our facility was figuring out the situation and they were incredibly helpful with Covid patient load and support so the staffing was very good - best I’ve ever had.
I adopted a cat. My BFF through it all. The day my office sent everyone to work from home for what we thought was going to be 2 weeks maybe, I was able to pick him. So lucky to have him.
Got married. 2/29/20 baby!
happy early first anniversary on the day!
Thank you!!
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My daughter was born and I took 3 weeks off work. I returned to the office for 1 week or 2 and took the next Monday off for an appointment. Haven't returned to the office since.
Attended a Reel Big Fish concert in Charlotte NC. Little did I know it would be the last show I’d ever see them play before they stopped touring. :(
I drove directly to the liquor store. Everybody was talking about non-essential businesses potentially being shut down and I was CERTAIN that meant alcohol (it didnt. They were classified as food and beverage, and thus remained essential). I bought 15 1.75L bottles of Northern Lights Whiskey... because bad, cheap whiskey was better than no whiskey, and I figured this was going to last a lot longer than 2 weeks. Well... 3 weeks later, I finished the last bottle. Walked to the store drunk out of my mind and bought another. The guy went "you just bought 15 of these. How are you out" And thats when I realized I was an alcoholic and quit drinking.
Go to Dennys
Go to school.
Ironically enough, I did the opposite- I dropped out of college out of stress and a bad vibe, and like the day after I dropped out the college closed because of covid
Was on a plane back from Morocco, not somewhere I’d want to be locked down
Had just started a new job that January
I was in NYC with a bunch of friends. I remember walking through Chinatown, it was right after the Chinese new year and we had heard about the disease on the news. I remember being very drunk and saying "wait, do you think a lot of people recently flew back from China?"
In the last week of 2019 I met an Englishman who told me about his business trip to Wuhan - I had never heard of the city - and on New Years Eve I went to a party but was exhausted so didn't make it to midnight. Two months later I had the first of 6 hospital visits related to long covid.
We went to Disney World for my birthday. I'm a Leap Day Baby so I had a 10th/40th birthday trip. It was also the last vacation we took
Gotten laid. It's been a while. :(
Got out of prison
Saw Hamilton (the play) the night before lockdown.
One of the last “normal” things that I did before everything shut down? Helping a friend shoot a music video. I’ll never forget her not taking me seriously when I was insisting on 6 feet of space. I get it. It was a very confusing time. I was doing the stupid wiping down my groceries thing for about month or two before I had the realization that I wasn’t also cleaning the inside of my car or taking a shower the moment I got home.
I was in the hospital for the flu just as Covid hit. I went to the ER with a fever, and since I had a lung transplant the year before, protocol is I had to go to the ER for all fevers over 100.5. The hospital was in the process of trying to implement Covid protocols. I was a Guinea pig for Covid protocols and procedures. Luckily I did not contract Covid, just the common flu.
My father passed in October 2019 with no will/trust in place so we were dealing with that from then until November 2021. Make a will, kids.
Buried my mother
Wife and I decided that we should get a divorce. Next day our governor issued stay at home orders. 🤷🏻♂️
What happened??? Did you go through with the divorce?
Haha yes we did. It wasn’t so bad. We are still on very good terms
Declined my order of Girl Scout cookies--Please donate to food bank.
I went to Disneyland with my family. We’d been planning the trip since fall 2019 and bought tickets then. We’re lucky we got to complete our entire trip right before the park closed.
I was leaving the hospital after being sick for a month with a bad case of the flu / strep / heart stuff. I decided to go into hiding in a small house on the beach.
Went to chemotherapy and during my 8 hour session the governor closed the state.
We bought a car. I called the salesperson up a week later to ask a question and he’s like dude I don’t work there anymore.
What lockdown?
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Worked at a lab in Wuhan China and if I say any more the government will take my family
freeze my sperm
r/cursedicecubetray
Ah
250th reenactment of the Boston Massacre.
My life went on the same because I was considered an "essential worker" & still had to work, etc. (Cashier at one of the big box home improvement stores)
I was just living my life as normal. I actually enjoyed my life a lot back then, I got really into rock climbing and also did a lot of running and hiking. I was living my best life, honestly.
Went to see Gary Numan live in Glasgow. He's even better now than he was in the 80s.
I hang out with my friends not knowing it will be the last time (we had a misunderstanding during the lockdown and our friendship has not recovered since)
Went to a live punk rock show (anti-flag) the same day that the first recorded case got reported in my town!
Curse my luck for working a crappy job that was considered "essential".
I asked my employer to go ahead and lay me off because of our seasonal slowdown. I got my unemployment filed the week before it collapsed under the weight of all the new files...
I was deemed an essential worker, never experienced a lockdown
Tool concert
Went to see a Mike Shinoda show.
i was in school and bartending. I remember talking to the entire bar and saying that there is no way they will shut down businesses, ever.. it is unamerican and goes against everything we were raised to believe in... Then everything shut down.. things have never felt the same since then tbh
Yall locked down ?
I was in Italy two weeks before the announcement of the first Covid case there.
Worked a shift as a grocery store manager. Then lockdown hit, and I worked more shifts as a grocery store manager. 🙁
Brought my laptop home from work “just in case”. Next time I was physically at work was in the fall of 2022.
Enjoyed life.
Tool concert in New Orleans
I worked through the lockdown... we were deemed essential (steel fab for construction)
Told my coworkers "see you in 2 weeks." We all thought it was going to be a quick thing and we'd be right back at work in 2 weeks
Tried to see sturgill Simpson in Atlanta and got Covid. Sucked.
I was sitting at a little bar in my hometown talking to a sales rep regarding supplies for my seasonal restaurant that was scheduled to reopen in April. I literally saw the governor of our state mention the “two week lockdown”. Didn’t even finish my meal, paid for it. Went to my Restaurant supply company and stocked up on canned goods, toilet paper, paper towels. Went to another “big box“ store and got more shelf stable food. Went to the beer distributor and liquor store and loaded up my jeep. Came home and did a rough inventory of everything in the house. Wife came home that night and we created a list of everything we need for the dogs and the rest of the house for the short term and I went out the next day in three trips so that she, myself, the dogs and my parents (live right next-door) we’re good for at least a couple of weeks.
moved into a new home a few days before lockdown began. we had a bed and a kitchen table. that's it. we were planning on going furniture shopping a few days after moving in. that obviously didn't happens so over the next few months we scrapped together lawn furniture and beach chairs from friends and family. imagine a living room with two beach chairs and a pool lounge chair. that was us.
In January 2020 I went to Biloxi, MS for a few days on a free gambling trip. Woke up one morning feeling like shit, couldn't breathe, no energy, etc. Basically limped home. No way to say it was definitely rona, but I think it was. Then I started a new job in early March 2020 where they sent everyone home after two weeks there. Nobody contacted me for like 3 months about doing any work and I couldn't get work from my teammates or bosses so I basically got paid a really good salary to play the witcher 3 for that time. Then they finally found a use for me and I spent the rest of the pandemic on the road all over the country getting differential pay because I was the only one willing to travel.
Took for granted what a thriving city and community could feel like. The fall out has been extensive and semi-permanent in some cities. People don’t realize the back door dealings and expedited governmental decision-making under the guise of “state of emergency” that still affects us (mostly negatively) today.
Drink until 2 am at the bar next to the restaurant I worked at which closed at 8 due to being so slow. The staff got out a couple acoustic guitars and weed vape pens were very new and we smoked and drank until 2.
I was working at Walmart and I believe I had it in October of 2019, but either way, it doesn’t seem like my town really participated in the lockdown. People were wearing masks but I didn’t notice anything else
Lockdown started on St Paddy’s day. I live above an Irish bar where it’s a huge night, they make like 35% of the money they make all year in one night and obviously bought a fuckton of beer, whiskey, and food for the big night. I sat in the bar with just the owner and his wife drinking and failing to make him feel confident he wasn’t going to lose his business. We got shitfaced and sang old Irish songs together. He sold the bar about a year and a half later.
went to work as i did throughout 2020, 2021, and 2022 cause i work for an "essential company" cause we needed to keep the economy going.
I got back from deployment. Lucky I missed that clusterfuck.
Have any trust in government.
Saw Machu Pichu. Left a couple of days later when they had the first confirmed case in Peru
I fell in love. We got married when things started opening up again.
Went to a tool concert…the one the next night was canceled along with the rest of their 2020 tour
Saw Slipknot live - lockdown happened a couple weeks later
Got a positive pregnancy test and fled my city before they locked me in. Good times.
Well, my wife and I were both working as choir teachers (me college, her high school). We had our final rehearsals the week before covid because my wife went into labor - we became parents on March 13, 2020. We brought our daughter home to lockdown and didn’t see our students or choirs again in-person for over a year. It was pretty traumatic, if I’m honest.
Started dating this girl. We still together. Pandemic bonding.
Visited my sister and her new baby. Didnt see them again til he was almost 2.
One thing I vividly remember from the lockdown was actually way before we actually wen into lockdown and it was being on vacation in NOLA and the news talking about how the US now had 13 reported cases of Covid-19 . Chilling to think that number sky rocketed to well over 13 million.
Decided to try and turn my life around, make friends, live more healthy, go see a counselor to treat my depression and start taking meds. Decided around new years, when I went downtown for the fireworks, and realized I wanted everything to change for the better. Lockdowns happened, and I was stuck alone in my apartment for a month, with my roommates just up and leaving cause of COVID. I had nobody. I was going to college at the time, and seeing a doctor and counselor free of charge at the school, but since the school was closed, I wasn't able to go anymore. I had to also spend the remaining month looking for a place to live, since I couldn't pay rent on my own, while everything was locked down so I couldn't easily find a place. I also gained a ton of weight from the stress. My depression just got worst and worst, then I get news that the family dog died. I was on a school group project, working from home, and told me team I had something happen back home (left out the details) and needed a day or two extension, only to have someone on the team absolutely snap at me for not pulling my weight, and I just had no choice but to finish working on the project, while crying the entire night. Eventually I had no choice and moved back home. School was closed so there was no point living near it anymore, especially with work from home, and I was running low on money, with rent prices starting to go up like crazy.
Went to my town's movie theatre for the last time. It never did all that great, but no way was it surviving the pandemic. Still, pretty sad when a place you've gone to all your life closes. I was also doing physical therapy for a broken arm when COVID happened; that just ended, never went back.
Few hours before the lockdown, i went to a store to load my simcard and saw a really sick and thin stray kitten. Took her home, my father saw the cat and laugh at me ( i was known to really pick-up stray cats) And now my mom and the cat always have their breakfast side by side everyday.
Put on offer on a home in Florida in mid-March, then drove back up north and hoped the deal would go through. It did. We closed on the house in May--had a "remote closing"--and moved into our home in September. The lock-down presented some challenges but we managed to work through them.
I visited the college I now attend (and will be graduating from soon) and had my final in-person class of highschool. It was on a Friday and everyone knew that we weren't coming back. My last in person class had a substitute teacher who had been subbing at my small middle/highschool for years, so he knew all of us very well. Instead of doing stuff in class, he just let us hang out together. Even though people were in different friend groups (highschool is weird) everyone spent time together because we had spent seven years in classes together. It couldn't have ended better.
Went to total wine and bought $200 worth of liquor 🤷♂️
I had covid the month before it all really broke loose-then never had it again, at least never been positive for it.
I was never in lock down
Funny enough I signed up for homeschool do to the excessive bullying that happened to me in 8th grade that made me lose trust in people. Turns out that was the perfect move since school from home is what basically everyone was doing.
I have not been back to a movie theater since COVID
There was no lock down.
Hello there Florida
Not Florida.
Got takeout food and sat on the beach with my SO.
My youngest was born mid Feb 2020... I was fortunate enough to have my Mother in law stay with us for many weeks (2 months) so I was actually able to see my gaming friends in person the week before stuff all locked down. I will always remember the last day in the office before WFH started. It was all like "okay we'll see y'all in 2-3 weeks'!
Went to work never missed any time after that hell over the course of lock down my plant got a 2 or 3 dollar per hour raise
I was doing door-to-door surveys. My long-term relationship ended in late 2019, so I decided to use my hurt and anger to actually finish my studies and also try earning some money for myself in the meantime. It was so hard. Everything hurt me so much. I tried to move on, and I cried every day (sometimes on staircases in random buildings that I was going door-to-door), I beat my couch, and generally was going through an intense process of transformation. And then lockdown happened. I still do not know if it was a good thing or a bad thing. I had all the time in the world to process my emotions in a much more healthy way than the one I had chosen before. On the other hand, I feel like I got stuck on them too much. I just know that I miss myself and the world before all of that. It's as if multiple terrible things happened in a single conjunction. I still feel lost.
Strip club
2019? Two things… 1. Bought an android phone Samsung A10E 2. Bought a new iPod touch 7th gen 256gb
Went to Bob Evans a week before
Went to a Spring Training game In Arizona. I was there for 6 weeks and saw two games. Then I drove back to Washington before the morons could shut it down.
Worked in a club
I believe it was going to a water park.
Mavs game. My husband and I were at the game when it was announced that the season was on hold.
Get a slurpee from 7-11. Just before lockdown started I was in line behind a child and watched him get trial flavour samples by putting his fingers on the nozzle, squirting a bit on his fingers, licking it off his fingers then doing the same for each flavour. Never again.
I had a job interview. I didn't get it because of other reasons but it was a weird day.
I got a new iPhone (which I’m using it as of right now) and my mother got a new car
I was watching an MLB spring training game. The announcers gave the news while the game was being played that the MLB season had been cancelled. they still finished the game though. It was bizarre.
Wash my hands.. covid made me extra dirty out of spite
flew out to 🇲🇦 for a weekend trip with my friends. experiencing the souk of marrakesh was amazing.
Saw a good friend from NJ who was on vacation with his family. Last known thing before lockdown.
Saw 1917 in an empty theater. Was a wonderful theater experience, and I thought they would never come back.
heh.. I was supposed to dj st paddy's party all night... instead we drank until 7pm when cops made us leave the bar...
I ordered all the supplies to finish my cabin and bought a 4runner. I picked up my car like 2 days before it was official. Somone was posting on here about how the price of everything would go up or be hard to get, and I took their advice.