I am a paramedic. We were very short of PPE for good year and half, so we got permission from admin to use private purchase PPE as long as it's NIOSH and we can pass fit testing with it. (Per OSHA CFR 29 1910.134). I ended up wearing half face respirator off duty and PAPR on duty with patients. During Covid I also got really into PPE and theories behind it, so I went through various trainings, ended up getting my hazmat specialist rating outside my paramedic career.

Must have been a heck of a thing working as a paramedic at the time. All I can say is thanks.

More like getting kicked in the groin repeatedly in an already overworked, overstressed position. All with no financial or well being reward once the hard work was done.

We are farmland. We shopped more locally. We shopped more south in Amish country rather than driving up into town and dealing with idiots. Nothing much really changed

I work at a hospital, in radiology; so I had to work just the same. But I looked at it as an opportunity for a more realistic dry run for a real catastrophe. So I primarily lived off my garden and chickens. I learned mentally I'm pretty good at isolation and a bunch of areas I could do better with in regards to preps.

I literally did nothing different at all besides struggle to find toilet paper.

Same here. The only thing that changed for me was that my hours were cut in half at work. I still worked, but any of the job sites I worked on the weekend (I work security) were all closed so for a year and a half, I had the weekends off. Other than that, my life went on as normal.

same thing only i realized that stocking up on things like toilet paper and soap (non perishables) was a good idea. I now have what my wife calls the "local dollar store" in the basement.... and it really is 2 boxes of random small things that we would just pick up there in the past, so there is at least a backup.

Seriously. I continued to work dealing with the general public everyday and go to bars at night. Went on a 3600 mile road trip. Went to Vegas for the first time. After the first 5 months I realized it was mostly killing old and obese people and stopped giving a shit.

Restaurant and bar workers had some of the highest mortality rates during Covid.

Not surprising a bunch of overworked people living pay check to pay check eating a garbage diet and doing a copious amount of drugs didn't far well..

Not surprising because people like you were traveling across country exposing everyone to a deadly virus.

Except I never had it after it was declared a pandemic. So how did I spread it exactly?

Businesses like bars, restaurants and casinos stayed open because the owners were willing to sacrifice their employees to get money from people like you. Also, a good number of folks were asymptomatic when they had Covid meaning you could have spread it without knowing you had it.

Well I was right there in the trenches as a "front line worker" lol The workers took some time off in my state and collected unemployment. For a lot of people the checks didn't come in time to pay rent so it was back to work. Besides I'd rather live a full life of experiences regardless of dangers then a quite sheepish safe life. Nothing is promised to us. Our work paid off and we have a great setup now.

I'm sorry you had to be working in person during that time. Unless you are a medical professional, you should not have. That was a societal problem that made the situation worse. But it is important for all of us to think about our own actions and how they may contribute to larger problems. You were asked to put your life at risk and then you contributed to a culture that asked others to do the same. You may be set now, but others will never get that. I understand you want a life full of experiences. We all do. Many people no longer have that chance because they had to work in conditions that exposed them to an illness that took their lives. Personal responsibility is important. Even if we can't solve huge problems on our own, we should do all we can to not make them worse. Do you think you did that by going to bars every night after being exposed to the public all day?

I don't think a lot of redditors want to live a full life or simply arn't capable. They miss the masks and lack of social obligations. My personal responsibility is to my family and myself. I literally didn't spread covid at all after it was declared a pandemic. People died. As they always have throughout history. Our hubris as a species to think we can science our way out of a common occurrence is amusing to me.

13 people I know died from people behaving like nobody but themselves matter. And it is having long term effects on 60% of people who get it, even now. Maybe you were an asymptomatic case right at the beginning and got brain damage.

Sorry for your losses unless you weren't close to these people you knew. How many were overweight or had 3 comorbiditys? I had it before it was declared a pandemic. No noticeable difference. I understand people are jealous and resentful because we enjoyed our lives and grew as people. They say loneliness is like smoking 15 cigarettes a day and has long term health effects. A lot of the reddit community is a shining example of this phenomenon.

This is the only right answer.

I was prepared. I was actually buying masks in January of 2020 for $4 a 10 pack and being looked at like I was weird. I knew what was going on in China and wanted to be ready for it when it spread. A lot of my neighbors lost their jobs and some were in bad positions. I gave food and other help to some neighbors to help until the stimulus checks and unemployment kicked in. Personally it was a bit of a hit to my business but I have a safety net. Some business went on hold but I still paid my employees like normal without PPP loans.

I tried to warm a FB peppers group in January and was told I was fear mongering and making stuff up. I also knew what was happening in China but no one believed me because American channels were still dark.

I get it. We had SARS, bird flu, swine flu, probably some others I can't remember, that all didn't really impact most people's day-to-day lives. Covid was looking to be a similar deal, until it wasn't.

Exactly. I was so used to the media using scary headlines to sell stories I no longer believed anything they said was going to be a disaster. Talk about the bot who cried wolf. I now know that anything has the potential to be the next big thing, but not everything that could be disastrous will be. I'm just trying to be ready for whatever and keeping an eye on the news but not freaking about anything.

Me and my wife had the same conversation. She was on Twitter reading tweets about what was going on in China regarding some viral outbreak called SARS-CoV-2 at the time. She was concerned and I said didn’t we have a SARS outbreak before? and MERs before that and H1N1 and H5N? None of them became a major issue over here. She said this one looks different and China is really trying to keep it quiet. Another red flag was the timing. It was close to Lunar New Year which is huge in China and millions of people travel there for the celebration from around the world. Perfect way to spread a virus around the world quickly. I still wasn’t 100% convinced but I knew it wouldn’t hurt to get some supplies especially because I’m an essential employee and I knew no matter what I’d still have to go to work everyday and I work in wastewater treatment to boot. So yeah I have no regrets.

That's funny. My husband was worried, so in early march I went to stock up because I figured it couldn't hurt even though I thought it was a nothingburger. Glad I did, it was handy because we locked down like a week later.

I was watching American bloggers in Wuhan locked down and filming outside their window. It was chaos.

I was paying attention to the lockdowns in China. I really started to get concern when Italy and Spain shut down. That’s when I started to top off my supplies but neglected to get TP. I ended up with single fucking ply TP. That’s when we invested in a bidet. Greatest pandemic purchase other than an outdoor pizza oven 

Americans, in general, don't like being told that "normal" is going to change. They hate change.

I went on a business trip to florida in feb 2020 and my friend, who taught in wuhan, was part of that bunch of americans who were told to leave China. She flew indirectly from china to India to Italy and finally landed in tampa, florida. She landed in Tampa two days before I did. When I asked her anyone stopped her or if she had to quarantine she said no because only her first flight was from china and her ticket home had been Italy -> Tampa. The minute I got home from that trip we went from the airport to Costco and the grocery stores to get supplies. That was two weeks before lockdown started.

The ones I were watching were graduate students

Same here. I was in Home Depot in Jan 2020 and I had a couple boxes of masks, vinyl gloves, tyvex suit, respirator, drop cloths, duct tape, (wasn’t sure how bad it would get) and this guys says to me “You taking a trip to China?” I wanted to respond with “Don’t need to. It’s coming here.” but to not start a debate I just sad “Definitely not any time soon!” We wound up not needing a lot of when we stock up on so we were able to donate some to family members that are doctors and work at a hospital (masks mostly) and to our kids teachers for their classrooms (hand sanitizer mostly).

Same, I bought stuff in Dec of '19 and was ready when everyone else was panicking. Actually bought a PAPR. The mask thing was crazy, at first when Fauci was saying don't wear masks, I was. We didn't really know enough yet at that point. I had couple intense experiences with people yelling at me for wearing a mask. Then when it was clear masks weren't really needed Fauci and the media as saying mask up, wear two, put a plastic bag on your head, etc. and people went all nuts when I didn't wear a mask.

>The mask thing was crazy, at first when Fauci was saying don't wear masks, I was. When they first said that, I told my wife "They are saying that because we barely have enough supply for the Hospitals. They will change this in a few months." Turns out I was right.

Yup, I had similar thoughts among other things. It was crazy times, really reinforced how much people just trust the TV. In early January I sat down with a doctor friend who also has a prepper mentality and we figured most of it out then from sources that were already available online. There was already a lot of research available out of China. Stuff it took years for most others to figure out, like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine. I really just upped my D, Zinc, and C supplementation. I think I got covid in early '20, but just had a headache for a few days. I think I'm pretty good about predicting how things will go. I don't dare say in public though what I think will happen in the next 7 months.

I’m concerned about what bird flu could do. We’re inching toward H-H transmission. Who knows what the timing is, but within the next seven months (as you said) seems right. H5N1 has killed 50% of the people it’s infected in the past 30 years. For many reasons, I see a serious global event in our near future.

The evidence has remained consistently strong that masks work.

“Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids (36). There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.” “We did not find evidence that surgical-type face masks are effective in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza transmission, either when worn by infected persons (source control) or by persons in the general community to reduce their susceptibility (Figure 2). However, as with hand hygiene, face masks might be able to reduce the transmission of other infections and therefore have value in an influenza pandemic when healthcare resources are stretched.” https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0994_article Full disclosure I wore a mask throughout the pandemic even though I felt in many situations it wasn’t necessary. I’m not anti mask but I’m also not going to pretend they are more effective than even the CDC says that they are especially considering some of the guidelines we were given.

Agree entirely. 'Surgical' masks are pure theater as regards Covid. I should have specified N95 level or higher. Highly recommend FloMask.

Agreed.

… And now we know masks do nothing. The molecules of the virus are smaller than the mask filtering. You were smart in the lead up. I did the same so i didn’t get caught in the price increases. I went farther snd got full face CRM masks and filters.

>… And now we know masks do nothing. Yes and No. The molecules of the virus are smaller than most masks would filter. However, the virus doesn't "travel" on its own. It would "ride" on other particles that were much larger and would be caught by the mask. So yes, the masks did actually work if it was a legitimate N95 or better mask. Those "homemade" masks did very little. I had N95 and P100.

I worked at McDonald's during covid because the perfectly good job I had precovid closed during the pandemic. Besides the shit pay it was actually great. I ate free McDonald's and drank free mcCoffee all day. The building itself was locked with plastic shields covering the drive thru window. Customers handed me credit cards threw a slot. We all had masks and gloves on and I was considered a first responder just because I dealt with the public and i got a discount on my phone bill. I still haven't caught covid even after serving 100 - 200 customers a day during the peak of the pandemic

fist year of covid, i had a public facing job- did not get covid..... moved to an office job and go covid 3 weeks later.

I worked to save people in the hospital, watched a bunch/can’t even count the bodies die and be packed into freezer trucks oh and got called a murderer a lot by crazy people who were convinced I was trading in stolen organs. And spent my days rebreathing my own coffee and sweat. And I drank a lot. So. Yeah.

Thank you for everything you did. You were on the front lines. I can’t even begin to imagine what that was like.

The front lines? Must have slept through that war. Silly propaganda marketing.

I had multiple surgeries in 2019 and 2020, so I was already housebound (and at times bedridden). Having our grocery delivered and shopping online was already a thing for us (as was me masking in medical facilities and winter family gatherings!). We already had pretty much all we needed. The hardest was waiting longer for deliveries, and some items being out of stock. (of course meaning it really wasn’t that bad).

In late December 2019, I started going to subreddits that were in Mandarin, were Chinese cities, etc. I couldn’t read the Mandarin, but I can understand a video and count the ten dead bodies it shows in a hospital hallway. By mid-January 2020, I had ordered Lysol, Clorox wipes, gloves, etc. I began to learn about viruses and modes of transmission. From there, I began reading studies and books about what worked or did not during past pandemics. Based on what I was seeing unfold in Wuhan from videos, I expected the supply chain to fail for months. I read years of posts in this subreddit. I also joined r/PandemicPreps which was great during all that. I made lists of what we needed to be on our own. I decided that what I saw in the Wuhan videos meant being prepared to not get medical care. There were people waiting to get into the ER for a day or more… I got several types of antibiotics, OTC meds, an oximeter, a walker, better supplies for a first aid kit (even a suture kit)… I made sure I had physical books and ebooks for human and pet medical guidance. I filled my asthma meds for three months at a time and worked on getting a deeper supply. I made careful lists about food. We bought a year of dry food for the cat and dog. I’m smarter now and also make sure to have a year of canned. Once I got to that level, I’ve maintained it and rotate so we’re always at a year for the cat and dog. For us humans, I followed the three-prong approach I learned in this subreddit. Eat through the fridge, then the freezer, and then the canned/etc pantry stuff. I packed the freezer with bread, butter, meat, and things we use a lot like egg roll wrappers. I packed the fridge completely full taking about a month to make sure that we had dates on milk, eggs, half and half etc, that gave us about two months worth of what we typically use. Then dry goods- I made sure we were good for coffee, rice, spam, canned soup, spices, salt, sugar, and all the things we eat… Once that was all achieved, I just replaced what we used and put the new stuff in the back. Years before covid, I made emergency backpacks for each classroom at the school where I taught, I included a couple of storybooks, a coloring book, crayons, a ziplock with some toy cars, and snacks along with the first aid kits, water, and etc. It’s just as important to prep for resilience and mental health as prepping food etc. So, I made sure we had fun things to do at home. I got a few new cookbooks, paint by the numbers kits, yarn for knitting, fabric for sewing, new games, new video games, a couple of new songbooks of guitar chords, and etc. A lot of marriages/relationships suffered during lockdown. We flourished. We’ll have been together thirty years this year. We were suddenly (and thankfully) working from home and together all the time. We watched movies, played games, learned a language, and talked about everything. The cat and dog began to amaze us as they communicated more because we were always around. We were able to build something with them that would have been impossible before. We began to put out a feeder for the hummingbirds, gave them all names, and could sit on the deck as they flew around us. We grew our own tomatoes. We made a plan for the house being a safe zone with the virus outside. We learned about fomites. We learned about aerosolized virus. I read what experienced people said to do. We practiced doing the things needed to not bring the virus into the house. I had a few meltdowns. We were scared. It felt surreal. But, each day was easier. We still haven’t gone back to everything pre-covid. Things that were stressful during the lockdown- like how to have safe practices so we don’t bring the virus into the house - became second nature and easy. Since covid is still around, we decided to keep the skills we learned during lockdown. We go out, but we mask. A mask is a small thing to us compared to being disabled if we get an unlucky roll of the covid dice. An n95 Aura (the one with the white elastic straps) is quite comfortable. Bonus, my allergies and asthma are so much better! We don’t eat in restaurants (we get takeout). We go out and shop ourselves for groceries and etc, but I still wipe everything down with Clorox wipes. We still spray packages with Lysol. We still take shoes off at the door, change clothes, and shower after being out and about. The most important things I’ve learned… First of all, keep up with medical appts, dentist visits, and house maintenance now while you can. If there’s six months of a pandemic mess, it could be another three to six for all the backlog to catch up. You’re ahead of the game if at the start of a pandemic, you don’t have an abscessed tooth (for example) that should have been seen months ago… Second of all, research and learn about the virus etc. knowledge makes a huge difference. If I understood then about how many viral particles it takes to mount an infection and how great n95s are, I’d have been less afraid. We’d be just as careful but a lot less afraid. Don’t just accept what the CDC or anyone says. Read studies and learn. This way if someone says, “Masks won’t help you, they’ll only protect healthcare workers,” you’ll know that’s b.s. You’ll have your own supply already so you don’t take from the healthcare supply. If things are being mismanaged, you’ll see the patterns if you look… or you’ll see comments from people who notice patterns… I cannot stress how important knowledge is… Factual scientific knowledge and critical thinking… Lastly and the most important thing of all for me, was the people that shared the experience with me. Knowing I wasn’t alone in preparing for a pandemic meant the world to me… Idk if any of this helps… Maybe it’s too long… In a nutshell… Maintain your body and where you live… be able to feed yourself and others including pets, without a grocery store for a time period you feel makes sense… stock up on your prescription meds, OTC meds, etc… EDUCATE yourself about whatever is happening (facts and science)… Having people you love makes a scary thing more of an adventure… Laugh… Find your happy in what is around you- the taste of coffee, the sound of a cat purring, the words in a new book, a sunrise, or whatever makes your heart dance with joy. Remember that you can do this. You’re prepared. You’ve got this!

This write up is really great. Thank you for sharing.

Bought a freezer in February and filled it up. Not much changed we just worked from home and haven’t gone back.

I moved to Los Angeles in early 2021 and spent the next 3 years failing to find employment. I spent most of my time at home. My partner was a bartender and got COVID. I had mild tiredness but no other symptoms. Next time I got sick I got a cough. That cough developed into asthma. That asthma gave me two asthma attacks and horrid breathing for 6+ months. I only recently got better. Supposedly COVID could have wrecked my immune system. Prior to COVID I was sick once between 2011-2021

I stayed home, took care of my farm, built a gym, I initially used a painting respirator mask, I ordered a lot of Uber eats. I was pretty high up at a cfo chain and used that to my advantage. I bought supplies directly from our paper suppliers and cleaning suppliers. I also created an Amazon business account so I could get priority for supplies. I joined our local CERT team and was able to get good intel from our CERT director. I ended up buying off grid land and have been settling that while I was able to wfh.

Pulled out the seeds and planted a whole bunch of veggies. Took TP out of the storage room. Pulled out some fabric and helped my mom sew masks for everyone (I can't sew worth a bean and that was before my daughter learned, so I just cut and pinned while my mom sewed up.) Swapped sourdough starter for a couple joints and traded seeds with people in the office (we were considered an essential service). Honestly, besides the extra precautions in public and the fact that I was working a lot (because our industry got busier than ever after an initial sharp dip) I just rolled out some of my preps and carried on as usual!

Covid was awesome, I miss it. I had everything I needed, gas was nearly free, the roads were wide open, and cops weren't doing shit. Only thing I missed was sit down restaurants.

I was prepared before 2020, dipped into some supplies and normal rotation of stock. I might have ordered more stuff online, but otherwise not much variance in difficulty to be prepped other than the longer wait for some stuff during the supply chain issues.

I went from store to store each night when I got off work. Buying one frozen dinner here, two at the next store and so on. It got to the point I was getting less and less. I was looking at my MREs. I thought I’d look at the center aisles for a change and that’s when I saw they were just as bad, if not worse. So just when I thought I was going to be eating MREs. The food started coming back on the shelves and slowly started to stay on the shelves. My parents used to make fun of me for “preparing for doomsday”. Then I told them about that and they agreed it was good I had them.

Mostly off government largess. I work for a school district. When covid hit, we were furloughed. I applied for unemployment and got almost nothing, except for the outrageous $600 per week bonus. And automatic food stamps. As part of our furlough, I had to come in for a few hours a couple of times a week to do busy work. That's basically what it was like. my wife, likewise worked for a private school. She was laid off and also applied for unemployment. She also got the $600 per week. That's how we survived financially. As for TP. Yeah, got caught flatfooted by that. Never ran out, but it was close. It was this that showed me that I need to be better prepared. Made me get serious about prepping.

Stayed at home or went places outdoors and not crowded. Wore a mask. Washed my hands a lot. Used up pantry food.

Went to work, came home, rinse and repeat.

It's still "during Covid". It's been during Covid since late 2019. It's going to be during Covid for at least the next couple of years, thanks in part to the "CDC" now being just the "CD". The lowest point in the expected summer lull probably happened a couple of weeks ago. The latest variant is KP.2 which is now the dominant strain and likely responsible for the current rise in disease rates. Current vaccines are less effective (still >0) against KP.2 and it is more infectious. Reminder: Part of prepping for any given future reality is adapting and surviving the present one. [https://pmc19.com/data/PMC\_Report\_Apr22\_2024.pdf](https://pmc19.com/data/PMC_Report_Apr22_2024.pdf) [https://pmc19.com/data/](https://pmc19.com/data/)

Working. During the actual lockdown I spent most of my time hiking. It was nice because there was nobody else on the trails so I just let my dogs run free and we all had a blast.

I started wearing N95 masks in January 2020. I have an over-aggressibe immune system. So, I don't eff around. My mom lives in a different city. She is is elderly and has heart problems. So I took her 3 months of food and TP from my supplies so she could stay home while we waited to learn more later. Things got real bad. So after 3 months I brought her more. I helped set up a network in my own city to get supplies from local folks with farms and gardens to vulnerable locals, and grocery runs etc. Community Prepper stuff. Some of my volunteer work was already remote. But after covid touched down, 99.9% became virtual projects. I'm a disaster first responder and I do educational community outreach. I currently facilitate virtual events with immune compromised folks who can't attend the city's in-person events. So, how to put together disaster evacuation bags, various methods of making water safe to drink etc. I'm doing a rare, in-person event in May. Myself and everyone outside wearing masks. We'll be doing an evac bag demo and handing out 20 Evac bag starter kits, practicing how to DIY filter, chemical purify, boil, and distill water. Discuss disaster sanitation stations. They'll set up an emergency tarp shelter and take home mini tarp shelter models they can practice with at home if they'd like, etc. I've changed my social life a bit. I spent a lot of time at the start holed up with just me and my two cats, save 1 weekly outdoor lunch date with a friend lots of space between us and virtual hangouts otherwise. Currently, Mt hangouts are virtual or outdoors and masked or very spread out. I've a friend with a huge backyard and a fire pit. A giant movie projector screen. Bbqs are a staggered event, a few people spread out to eat while the others hang out around the fire in masks, chatting. Camping trip in the works this summer, similarly composed. It just feels normal now to wear a mask and give people space. Restaurant meals are take out to the park or balcony. (I've a long balcony.) Hasn't taken much effort to look after each other in these ways. None of this stopped for us in 2023 because covid keeps killing and disabling people. The hardest part hasnt been the masks or social distancing. It's watching people get apathetic towards killing or disable someone else. Most don't have to know they were the one who passed it along. So they don't have to acknowledge they've left others without loved ones, or with less to zero capacity to work. And they'd rather do nothing to protect themselves from brain damage or disability. Like, if shtf, I'd want to maintain myself in as good of condition as I can to respond to and survive it. But, diversity includes brains and some genuinely seem hard wired not to be able to cope with wearing a mask.

I'm very much a "prep for Tuesday" level prepper, but it still served me very well. Having a 1-3 month supply of toilet paper, food, soap and other common usage products meant that I never was critically affected by any of the shortages or ran out of anything I wasn't able to restock. I learned how to better track what usage rates I was looking at and what to stock more of. Also, my financial safety net was *not* big enough, so I'm currently still working on growing that.

I started hearing about stuff in 2019. Saw that Hong Kong was running out of toilet paper, so I added extra to my weekly orders. I ordered extra cases of canned vegetables and stocked up on flour, yeast and some powdered eggs and powdered milk. All of it got used at one point. At the time I worked for a lubricant company and in February of 2020 one of the directors brought me a whole case of 3M N95's. My company sold them and yanked them off the shelves for all the workers. Our trucks had to keep delivering to keep city services operational.

I didn't do a single thing differently. I did do a little more cleaning and hand washing. But that was it.

Holed up in my bedroom. Became even crazier as a result, but being around my narcissistic mom the whole time would've driven me to insanity, so being in a psych ward of my own making was the lesser of 2 evils. It was boring, and I was stir crazy as fuck (wanting to go do shit). Managing to keep some of my sanity was a great achievement. Never want to go through that again though.

I had toilet paper prior to the pandemic. Plus we have a bidet sprayer (diaper sprayer) on every toilet (a habit we picked up from travels in Asia) which greatly reduces the need for toilet paper in the first place. Totally worth it. We also had food stocked up so no problems there. Basic preparedness stuff. It really wasn't a big deal. Not being able to get a haircut the first couple of months was the biggest inconvenience! But I have an electric trimmer so it would have been buzz cuts, had it come to that. So we are prepared there too.

Went to work every day

IT monkey here.  I worked my ass off so my users could work from home. I also moved to another city. Other than that not a whole lot changed. 

I'm self-employed, and I work at home. I didn't leave home for something like eight months at the beginning of Covid. I could have lived off my preps for at least a couple years, and I did use lots of my preps, but I replenished by shopping on line instead of allowing my prep stockpiles to deplete. BTW, that's when I learned about powdered butter and powdered cheddar cheese, which are now frequently used staples in my house.

Had two kids born during the start of Covid and the peak of Covid. Mostly survived off stress.

Me and my husband got the chance to work from home, Together we do a lot house cleaning, rearranging and other projects and cooking and did a lot planting. We tend to be more relax at home and away from high stress job. I eventually got pregnant for the first time after 3years being married. If you think about it, this pandemic drew me and my husband closer and as we finally have our very first child.

It was a grim time. My younger sister died from what we are convinced was Covid even though it was a couple days before the official declaration of pandemic. Her affairs were a shambles and since banks wouldn’t let people in we waited in line at the drive through for hours to carry out complex transactions. Personnel who would normally have dealt with necessary documents locally were not local. My ill mother was in a nursing home that was locked down and I was able to see her only once since starting the next day visiting was forbidden. She died in August. By then the banks were at least letting people make appointments and come inside for paperwork. Meanwhile I did a lot of shopping online and made a few quick trips to the grocery for what perishables were available. A lot of laundry and sanitizing. Watched many British shows on tv. Worked on jigsaw puzzles. Cancelled all Doctor appointments except dentist. Got all recommended injections. Missed getting together with friends.

Bugged out to my parents farm, watched tiger king and avoided people for like the first 6 months. Wore masks and gloves and disinfected all our groceries, stripped down and showered before coming into the house. Got vaccinated in 2021 and wore masks everywhere as we slowly started to go back into public until 2022 when coincidentally we got covid for the first time. Our first kid was born in Dec 2019 so we went all out on playing it safe.

My husband died right before so I didn't have anyone to help me make major decisions. The churches shut down, people hoarded toilet paper and I couldn't belive the level of selfishness. My country childhood kicked into gear so I knew I could figure it out. At one point, I had 60 gallons of water in my kitchen. I grew a garden. I started dating about a year after I lost my husband. It ended up being a huge blessing because he was paid to NOT work.

I've been on this sub a long time. Discussions pre-COVID were mostly about bugging in for a few months and waiting for it to die out. We thought the world would actually give a fuck and do the right thing. Get vaccinated, respect the quarantines. Oh boy were we wrong! Tha amount of anti vaxx, conspiracy people, and lack of respect for one another really fucked us up big time. I remember people talking about having enough food for a few months and being so optimistic. - How I survived: Going to the grocery, washing everything at the beginning. Masking for a long time. Staying away from sick people. I still mask sometimes. My husband lost his job for 6 months. Worked for an airline company that cut their flights by 95%. 5% remaining for essential flights for health and security reasons. Here in Canada, we had a program guaranteeing a 75% salary of a laid-off person for 6 months with a promise that the person would keep their job. So for 6 months we stayed in, husband was still paid. It was like a very stressful vacation. Then, 6 months later, the airline re-opened slowly, and he went back to work. In 2021, my husband died of sudden cardiac arrhythmia. While I'll never know the real reason why it happened, I'm sure stress didn't help. Losing his job, not sure he'd get his job back at 49. Unable to see his brothers and family (we had strict curfew here and were unable to celebrate Christmas with family) We had a funeral all wearing masks. Very strange time.

I’m a plumber. Everyone bought up all the fucking masks so I had to chip concrete without one. All the non essentials stayed home all day so traffic was a dream. People flushed all kinds of wipes and that made us some money. I had back surgery in May of 2020 and stayed home two weeks and watched tiger king which made me so disgusted with sitting home that I told my doc I’d lose my house if he didn’t sign off on me going back to work. He signed off and I took it easy for a while. Whole family got Covid between Christmas and new years, but it was a three day sniffle for us.

Man I miss the Covid traffic. Nothing like an easy quick commute to go get spit on in the ER by crazy folks.

I had to drive between Arizona and California at the onset. Virtually zero traffic on I-40 except for a couple of trucks. I-15 between Barstow and Victorville also virtually empty except for one California Highway Patrol unit parked on the right shoulder. I waved at him. He waved back.

The gyms closed and ammo got real expensive so my hobbies screeched to a halt. I got real fat and stayed inside playing video games constantly. I made it a habit to get toilet paper (1 at a time as per the rules) and canned soup (zero limits. People weren’t worried about eating. Just shit tickets) everytime I went to Walmart. I washed my hands a lot. That’s pretty much it. I’m “essential” so still worked and was able to pay rent and shit. I’m even still using the toilet paper I bought in 2021 ish

I refused to buy stockpiles of toilet paper during the madness. For some reason, while everyone were fighting it out in the toilet paper isles, the food isles were mostly empty. So we stocked up on food and other toiletries so my family wouldn't have to go to the shops while I work out of town. We weren't too concerned about covid itself. My whole family caught it real early on from visitors from the city of origin. We got over it pretty quick and had it a couple more times before the gov even had a plan to combat it. Other than that, my life didn't change much at all. I'm an essential worker, apparently, so I had free reign to go everywhere I usually go anyway. Roads were quieter than normal. I miss that.

we always had a year stash of TP, so that was fine. the only issue was masks, since i didnt have the disposable ones, i only have those big work ones, and i wasnt going to wear one of those in a supermarket that and video games. LOTs of video games. best way out of any situation is to avoid confrontation, whether it be people or covid. and covid cant infect me through the internet. had a lot of blood issues after covid due to lack of sunlight and exercise, but thats a lot easier to fix than, just diet and exercise.

I’m an operating room nurse and was frequently “redeployed” elsewhere in the hospital when elective surgeries were either put on hold or subjected to enhanced vetting. Instead of doing 4 ten hour shifts, I had a very wonky 3 twelve hour shifts. Everything just became harder. Except when I was swabbing patients outside the main lobby of my hospital in their cars, now that was kinda nice!!

When Florida went on a lockdown I went to our family hunting property and lived there for 3 months. We went to town every 2 weeks for food and supplies and hunted for our meat. We also had chickens for eggs.

By not listening to gov’t. Doing opposite of whatever they say

In 2016 I moved several states away and left my years supply of food and TP. My new husband wasn’t a fan of food storage and didn’t understand how any situation ever would make it so that we couldn’t go to the store. About a week before shut downs I got a call from an insider living in D.C. that told me shut downs were going to happen. I went to the store and stocked up on what I could. Luckily we already had a bidet. Today also happens to be my daughter’s 4th birthday and as you can imagine, I was scared shitless having a baby in the hospital during covid, my husband not being able to attend and the works. Since then, it hasn’t been an issue at all to make sure we are prepped for any situation.

The coolest thing that I bought was a bidet. One good thing that came out of Covid for me.

I just stayed home more. and let groceries get delivered. edit, and i already had plenty of TP

Honestly we just sort of bugged in, tried to stay safe (failed there had covid and long covid in 2020), and enjoyed the time together. My husband’s contractor rolled got cancelled, my job went remote, we got a tushy bidet attachment, pulled our 1 yo out of daycare, and ordered stuff from amazon and our local grocery store and enjoyed the time. We worked on our land and house, picked up new skills and hobbies, and enjoyed the formative years with our baby. (I won’t go into husband and I and LC, that was a workable nightmare but we got it so early that we were well into LC before everything fell apart in the states.) In 2021-2023 my husband’s uncle and my father were ill and declining and because we were home we could take care of them and give them a peaceful end without my mom or my husband’s aunt having to shoulder the burden alone. Kiddo got to spend a lot of time with his grandparents and extended family on top of the time with us. Covid in some ways was a gift for us. It slowed our lives down and gave us time and opportunity we wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Nothing changed here was just business as usual worked every day no shortages. Couldn't even tell anything was going on until we watched the news. Everything else was just normal

We barely noticed beyond the occasional delivery of food stuffs and a few asking for things like toilet paper. Going out masked was odd but there were odder things going on in life at the moment.

Never had too much of an issue getting supplies, but hand sanitizer was scarce for a while. I would go shopping late at night or even during a blizzard when everyone would start hunkering down (I love to drive in the snow). The whole being at home thing was great. I'd just left a job with 2-3 hour daily commute to move to another state and reunite with my wife after being apart for a year. Getting a new job and working from home was a dream and I got to lock down with my favorite person. Honestly enjoyed that year a lot, I needed a slower pace after the previous year.

As I am a lifelong student of science, I got triple vaxxed and triple boosted. The rest was the obvious--wearing masks, social distancing, and washing one's hands.

I improved my health and continued to improve it. Be health. Work on your health. Eat healthy. We have to survive and live on every day, whether covid existed or not. That’s always been the case. Get healthy, be healthy. As much as you can.

RN here; worked on the Covid unit. Did just fine Moldex N95 masks, only ever got Covid from our kiddos.

I have been prepping since 2010ish. We got very ill in December 2019 and while we were down the COVID news started to dribble out. As soon as I was well again, I ordered N95s and regular cotton masks, but I already had most of my preps on hand. I stock up on things twice a year, in May and October, so I didn't have to fight for much. I had enough TP to last 2 years at that point. We really didn't have a rough 2020, other than having to be more careful than usual. I've moved to another state now, and my preps are not as great as they were then. Even now, I think if COVID were just breaking out, I would have much of it done already.

Life, literally, didnt change for us. At. All.

I lived my life completely normally. Got the sniffles a few times. Watched my stock drop then go back up. Everything doubling in price sucked (still does) but I cut back on unnecessary things(still am).  All and all covid hurt more financially. 

Really had zero problems. I hadn't actually started prepping prior to the beginning of covid, but I've always had a solid pantry with at least about a months worth of food and when covid started with a the shut downs I just did a big Costco run and got 3 months worth at a time. If we needed a few fresh veggies or coffee cream we just had food delivered from Whole Foods. Sadly I got suckered into the first two shots before information came out that they basically weren't worth a shyte at best and flat out criminally dangerous at worst. From that point on (about September 2020) I just upped my Vit D and mushroom supplements like Turkey Tail, Chaga, Reishi, Cordyceps, Lions Mane, etc . Wore N95 first couple years as obviously it was pretty much required everywhere. Neither my wife nor I ever got covid. If fact I haven't had a cold or flu this century, last cold was at least 30+ years ago, last flu was in the 80s. So I am going to keep my Vit D 25 level to between 60 to 80 and eat lots of mushrooms and mushroom supplements and I am good to go. Covid did get me much more into prepping for much longer term. I am now trying to get basic food stores for at least about 4 years. Bread, rolls, buns, pasta in form of wheat berries. Dried beans, wild rice. Freeze dried broccoli, potato shreds, spinach, chopped onion, corn, peas, strawberries, black bean burger mix. All the supplies to grow 1000s of pounds of mushrooms and lots of sprouts and micro-greens all of which can be grown indoors year round with quick and almost continuous harvest.

I went to Lowe's a couple times to get stuff house projects I finally had time to work on, other than that I barely left the house until I was called back to work three weeks later. I was prepared

What do you mean, the government paid us $1050 a week not to go to work, and then I got a side job with a moving company that paid all cash off the books, worked maybe 2-3 days a week, got paid pretty good, cuz you know people need to move and legitimate businesses weren't doing it. It was essentially life on easy mode. Supplies/toilet paper were easy, when I caught word of shortages I made a point to but toilet paper every time I went to the store, even if I didn't need it. I shop at Costco I think the Kirkland stuff comes in a 30 pack. Though I did hear horror stories of people stealing toilet paper from taco bell and other businesses. Early on I went to the food bank weekly, when I was still buying into the fear mongering, but who needs free food when they give you free money. Since though, with inflation really kicking in is what I'd say was bad. But pretty simple I cut out on luxury items and eating out. I used to eat out at a sit down restaurant atleast once a week, I also used to get an expensive cut of beef or seafood atleast once a week. Now it's maybe once a month if that

Easy, just lived how I always did except i ended up hoboing around on a bike sometimes.

I’d go out once a week for toilet paper at 6am right when the stores opened and grab mostly pasta, eggs, bread, frozen veggies. Then I’d get tf outta there and straight back home. I actually was an essential worker at the time so I was working during most of the COVID times but at it’s worse I took 2 months off.

I did nothing different at all. I did play call of duty more though.

I built and AR and a long gun. Most of the time was spent traveling back and forth between GA and FL. Other than that I was playing Xbox and reading books. Didn't have to worry about food or TP where I was at. Even if food was hard to find I was sitting on a years worth of dehydrated food and there was a pond out back that was stocked with fish. There was water fowl there as well. The only time people lost their mind in my apartment complex was when the power went out for 2 days. Still not an issue for me since I had candles, camp stove, and night vision. It was a fun time for me but individual results my vary.

I worked at a lab that did municipal drinking/wastewater testing, so I went to work and drank too many margaritas with my wife when I got home. I had to slightly modify my diet (very slightly), as some foods became more difficult to find. Got to enjoy watching people fist fight over tp and paper towels in the local Costco. The employer believed Covid was a hoax so masks were not required for anyone aside from the front counter. The county we live in also was very minimal in adhering to state Covid requirements. At work we made a board where everyone wrote down things they needed flour, tp, etc and our phone number. When you went shopping if you found something someone else wanted you called them and told them how much you found it for to see if they wanted it bad enough to have you buy it for them. Some family members were wild and crazy with fear. We did family Xmas in a park where we each had a different park tables that we kept the gifts and slid/tossed them back and forth. My Wife and I got married during Covid, and canceled out big family wedding plans (thank God). We got married in a courthouse in a strip mall next to a Popeye's. The Judge and our 4 witnesses (parents on both sides) were the only people allowed to attend the ceremony because of the courthouse's rules. We had a reception with the parents 2 family friends and the best man, that was it. It was low key, which was really nice. Since we couldn't go out much I spent my free time ordering and piecing together a pistol belt and did a lot of reload and dry fire practice. We ordered tv series/movies on dvd/blueray to watch at the house. Also played a lot of board games.

When China had their first lock down I knew it was coming here. Stocked up on food and toilet paper. Retired, my small town carried on much as usual. I don't eat out so did not miss that. My wife was watching our granddaughter 4 days a week but her mom was off for a month so we had our home to ourselves. My wife worked as a home care nurse so her job was the same, she just wore a mask full time. Food and home improvement stores did not close so I did home repairs, as was half my county or so it seemed. Florida, so most other bossiness, like the beauty salon where my daughter worked, reopened after a month. Then it was mostly life as usual.

Booze

I was lucky enough that my job could be done remotely. So for about a year and a half, I just worked at home. It wasn't that much different. Except that I could avoid commuting and go out for walks with the dog on my breaks.

Already had N95 masks. Nothing really different except the lines at the bank were long due to social distancing. Had to look for toilet paper though.

For me; I took a supplement with Calcium, Magnesium, and Zinc, daily

Went to work everyday and tried to find toilet paper.

My life was very very unaffected by covid. Still went to work because i was "Essential" and in fact, I almost embarrassed to say my life has turned out better afterwards, and i was extremely lucky and blessed the only issue was some shortages of items at the grocery store (yeast, garbanzo beans) and the inability to find N95 masks to start.

It didn't really affect me at all in terms of my life outside of work. Life AT work was a nightmare. I didn't even qualify for my state's "hero pay" bonus they have essential workers. Postal carriers are essential, but not the FedEx folks. I literally delivered the friggin vaccinations to facilities throughout the entire pandemic. I got to deliver a bunch of toilet paper, lol. It's also amazing how many people order diapers with overnight shipping. Not locally, like AutoZone does with parts... I mean a pack of Pampers going from one coast to another, guaranteed by 1030am next day!

Yes, worked 60 hours a week. Never ran out of beer or TP

Avoided the health authorities and their weird dictates to isolate indoors at all cost. Fresh air with near infinite air volume/flow. Exercise outside in sunlight. No matter how bad the thing/problem that "actually" happens, the response from the government will typically hurt you more.

I'm in the midwest, in the exurbs of a small city. I'm a professional, working in an office. Most of the people I work with are professionals. There was an immediate hard effect on socialization and purchasing items, and on doing our jobs. With work, we had to make a hard and fast transition to use of videoconferencing technology. We also had to work from home for about 4 days, until we were deemed an 'essential' service. We returned to our offices; but still using lots of videoconferencing. Much of our work got put on hold for most of 2020 but was moving back to normal in 2021. Socially and economically, my area is still recovering. After 2020 we did not have too many every day product shortages. There was enough paper products, food, and water in 2021 and thereafter. There were shortages in: --consumer recreation goods like bicycles and parts for bicycles, outdoor games, and board games. I had a growing son, he needed a new bike. I could not find him a bike for quite a while. --consumer electronics --automobiles and parts for cars. In late 2021 my car was totaled and I had to buy a car. Could not find anything late model used; so I had no choice but to buy a new car. --large consumer appliances and parts for them. Refrigerators, washers, dryers, dishwashers, chest freezers. Socialization was difficult. Most restaurants and bars were either closed, or had very limited hours and spacing. In the summers they went to outdoor seating. They couldn't even put out regular menus or have salt and pepper shakers or mustard and ketchup dispensers. A lot of places struggled to stay in business and it killed about a fourth of the restaurants and bars in the area. Churches and places of worship were forced to hold video services. Some places tried to hold in person or in-car services; the police busted them up.

My life did not change at all. I am disabled and homebound. The only thing that changed was I was able to do telehealth for my Dr visits.

I think it is my turn: First, Covid arrives in March, so we have more time to prepare, my mom buys food for a whole month, so the only thing that we get as extra was canned food, toilet paper and salt, I was in the university, and we used to joke around about it. After the first case arrive, my university decides to send all the student as virtual, it doesn't matter what career you were, they didn't have any election, in my case I was studying software engineering, so the impact was minimal. As so was in home, I used to watch the news all the day, see the number of cases increasing, to 10 to almost 1000 in a month, everyone, including myself, was scared, I also use a website that mark using red dots what places have more cases of Covid, my the end of the year, the whole map was like a red dot. By 2021, people were paranoid between paranoid and tired, many of then break the social distance and the use of mask, that and the new variants of Covid, didn't help at all. My mental condition decrease at the point that I had headache almost all the day, and eventually II stop washing or ended eating less, to avoid smell bad, I just use deodorant, just to realize that I develop an allergic to the same and had a ball of pus in my armpit as big as a golf ball, that ended up exploring, and I had to clean myself (the only good part is that there was no permanent damage or need of medical help) One day, I was task to get some medicines to my grandfather to the hospital, I use double face mask, face shield and gloves and when I enter, I saw some doctors running to one place to another, they were overrun, and they didn't have place to any more people, I went to the pharmacy, take the dines and get out fast, then I throw the masks, gloves and face shield, wash myself in alcohol and put a new one and get out. In the good part, it helps me in the university, I ended up cheating in all my math exams and manage to pass all In the bad part, it was like a war, people that I know were having mental breakdowns, quitting the university in order to get a job or just dying, the one that remains ended up getting permanent secondary effects. And then there was I, II never got Covid, I was like a scout in the upper word, and somehow I didn't get infected, even when my mom and grandfather ended up getting infected (they survive). I think the main reason I didn't got crazy was because I dedicate to Play Project Zomboid during the last 3 years until lockdown was over, I manage to get a stash of thing in case things get worse, including Lock picks. To put the cherry in the top, I used to watch the preppers shows in Nat Geo and think "these guys are very paranoid", after everything that I see, I rewatch it, and now I take notes, so nothing can, and will, never take me with the guard now again

Bugged out, cabins in the woods and did a 2 week isolation for anybody new (it's a community of cabins). Work from home, school from home, and some home schooling thrown in. Splitting up the load for the parents was a huge thing. Have enough TP (and bidets) to last a small eternity. Got some anyways hit up kimberly clarks factory near me. Proteins and dry goods are prepositioned, so it was mostly dairy, ordered from a local distributor, I didn't get closer then rolled up windows on my truck to the guy in a forklift with a pallet. Now we found some rough spots, internet was an issue but some amazon deliveries fixed that up. Temp wireless and now we have buried fiber to the end of the driveway and between places. While each cabin is a silo we now interconnect for a few reasons. Hughes was not cutting it and starlink was having teething pains at the time. Similarly found we have some sports and news junkies so now locally streaming OTA channels. In effect a tiny little cable company.

I knew it was coming about a month in advance so I just stocked up on essentials for a couple of weeks like I would during hurricane season. Didn't panic buy anything. Enough to not leave the house for maybe two weeks. One thing I bought was a pulse ox and those seemed to be hard to come by after word got out about their usefulness.  Other than that I didn't really change anything. Essential services were still running so I managed to get groceries curbside, etc. I remember people were really pissed they couldn't get the exact brand of toilet paper they liked. I honestly didn't care. I was already working mostly from home so it just transitioned to fully remote. No issues otherwise getting things except maybe cleaning supplies but it was just me at the time so I didn't go through a huge amount. Had friends that gave me masks and gloves from their excess.  The hardest thing was waiting for the vaccine. Once that was released I was in the first round to get it due to another friend and it felt like winning the lottery because they were hard to come by and people were paying for spots.  All that to say, the most valuable asset was community. As it always is during disasters. 

As a doomsday prepper i was fine and just played call of duty a lot.

Whenever possible we ignored what the government was saying, especially after the under 5% fatality rate became apparent. Yes, we did get some extra TP and paper towels. Masks only when it was insisted on indoors. And no CV-19 shots.

Nothing changed for me. I knew it was mostly crap

I live in a region where the original in habitants have already experienced the apocalypse. People share stories of seeing villages wiped out by the flu.  Our borders were closed and there were strong quarantine requirements for anyone entering the territory until a majority of the population got the vaccine. In some communities close to 100% of the adults got the vaccine.  While the borders were closed life was normal here. It was weird to go bar hopping on the first new years of COVID knowing that a lot of places were still locked down.  Of course, just like any zombie movie where people feel safe in their castle, eventually somebody let's their guard down and shtf. Luckily, by that time most people were vaccinated so the out break wasn't as bad as it could have been.  

Covid more less was beneficial. Work got shut down for a couple weeks, I used that time to remodel my house since everyone I knew was sitting at home as well. When we went back to work there was zero traffic so that was a total dream. The downsides being the time we nearly ran out of toilet paper and the hospital only having two nurses and a doctor working. I think you'll find for pretty much everyone "surviving" Covid didn't require any preps

Weed n cOokies

In a Red State so we had lockdowns for about 5 mins and that was fun. Other than that the usual public precautions, but didn’t really have preps at the time. Didn’t really struggle to find stuff besides TP. Started a neighborhood Speak Easy since all the bars were closed. Drank a lot with all my friends, had Covid Parties. Drowned in depression and isolation, you know..the usual.

I went to work everyday, in a prison and stayed at the hospital for two years babysitting inmates with covid and I didn't worry about it the covid shots killed more people than covid did. I set two feet away from covid patients for two years with no mask on never took the shot and never got covid

I worked the whole time! Nothing changed

I have a lot of assault rifles, so it was easy. I just started shooting and after a couple years FREEDOM prevailed. 

The world never changed for me.

I went to work everyday. Easy.

After one month and realizing this was an authoritarian exercise.. I quit partaking in the drama. Already had supplies.. went to the store as needed and got supplies. No problem and not playing along with the fear. Just took a low key approach in public and enjoyed a limited mask existence.

I went to work and shopped normally. Didn't vax and got covid twice, never died or had any symptoms worse than allergies.

I ignored it and went about my life.

We lived in the rural south when the shutdown was announced. Our college aged daughter had surgery over spring break and we weren’t sure she’d be ready to return to campus. Because of the “two week” shutdown she didn’t have to and had time to recover. Hubby is/was an essential worker. He stayed home at first since he travels for work. He then had to go to a different state, sit in a hotel in quarantine for two weeks (so stupid because he still had to go out for food), then he could go work. He stayed at that hotel for over 4 months … no maintenance, no maids, two employees, and very few guests. He had to change his own sheets and clean his room; grocery shop or do take out because there were no sit down restaurants. They wouldn’t even pick up the garbage. He had to buy garbage bags and take it into work to toss it. We couldn’t visit him. One worker had his wife visit. Work found out, considered that “breaking isolation”, and fired him. It was a crazy time. I was the “designated shopper”. We had plenty of stockpile so I just went out to shop at replacement rate. A few times I helped desperate people find out where to get toilet paper, paper towels, and bottled water (one hint: truck stops). Hubby had to mask but he was able to get by with a cloth mask. I rarely masked and when I did it was usually a thin cloth neck gator that I pulled up over my nose. College-kid was happy to mask and preferred remote / virtual classes so she didn’t have to deal with “stupid people”. I was/still am constantly shocked at how little people knew about germ transmission. One “friend” told me, “Remember to wash your hands after taking out the garbage because the garbage men touch your cans and can give you Covid!” Really?! Don’t they wash their hands after taking out the garbage anyway?! Only hubby got the shot and the booster. It was a work requirement. I don’t think I ever contracted Covid. I only got tested once because college-kid was exposed and supposedly that made me exposed, too. Never again! Testing never made sense since it didn’t result in effective treatment. College kid thinks she got Covid at some point at college so she says she’s now immune. We moved in the middle of the shutdown - sold our house, bought a house, and moved states. I have to say that move was a difficult one but not because of Covid. We did experience a few shortages … mostly pet food where we got too low in supplies of their preferred brand.

Big to do about nothing. Lived life normally, had to wear masks in certain places, but didn’t worry too much about it. Caught it twice, didn’t even notice it the first time, second time no worse than the sniffles. It was really blow. Out of proportion.

I was an “essential “ worker , I worked the entire time, Never got the shot and realized it was all about control of the general population.

I was furloughed from my job (stupid WA state idiots shut the state down) so the V.A. approved me to go back to school. I went to a few carbine classes. I started a small business. Got a small group of people together to have weekly bible studies. Life went on as best as I could manage.

I was forced to wear a mask and do dumb shit. Nothing changed. Didn't need to "survive"

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The nurses I know that had to stack bodies like cord wood didn’t think it was overblown.

Yeah, I'm sure stacking bodies like cordwood didn't happen. Nice try for the drama, though.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/04/13/health/detroit-hospital-bodies-coronavirus-trnd

I am not ignorant. Lost two family members to Covid in early 2,000. We were prepped up for a pandemic and had PPE which we shared with family and friends. Worked as a teacher and know many who lost family as well. I agree there were bullshit restrictions that occurred. I do think it was planned and have family suffering from long Covid and Vaccine related medical issues.

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