#normal wasn't working

[nietterugnaarnormaal]

*alle bankbonussen naar de zorg is het nieuwe normaal*

#nietterugnaarnormaal

[anannua]

It’s Friday!

I miss the joy that Friday used to bring. It signals the beginning of the weekend, the time to relax and enjoy ourselves... but every day is a weekend day now. I hope we make it through this time and don’t return to normal. This time has shown us that ‘normal’ doesn’t work. I want to stay angry that health care professionals aren’t getting the PPE they need to safely stay on the front line caring for our sick. I want to be upset that corporate companies are allowed to sit on their wealth without any consequences. I want to hold on to the fury that the Leader of the United States of America allowed his people to congregate when other countries called for drastic measures with isolation and social distancing because prevention of the disease is so much more effective than trying to treat the symptoms. 

I don’t want a solution. I want to be mad, so I don’t forget how I feel. 

I want to go back to loving Fridays. But I also want other things to change and NOT go back to normal when this is all over. 

[magicalannapanda]

I don't want life to return to "normal." Though, I doubt that would even be a possibility at this point. I do really hope for a vaccine for the virus (or for people to actually take it seriously and use precautions in the US, but as we've seen, the chances of that are slim.) But as the virus and its changes to daily life have awoken more people, we realize the systems that have been in place are broken.

People have been miserable and mistreated. Racism, capitalism and poor wages, climate change, unaffordable health care, modern day ICE concentration camps, sexist and corrupt leadership. Amongst a multitude of other problems.

I just hope people continue to realize that what was/is considered normal in the US was in no way working, and that the future needs revolutionary change if we don't want to spiral into a dystopian nightmare.

[nietterugnaarnormaal]

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[thespecialhell]

Guys, COVID-19 is making me face some hard truths about myself. Namely, the fact that I am thriving under quarantine. 

My anxiety levels have never been so low, I haven’t bitten my nails in over a month, I absolutely love staying home and not feeling guilty about it, I’m baking delicious bread and cookies all the time, though I do miss my friends I absolutely do not miss large social gatherings, I’m writing again (a hobby I have not indulged in since highschool), I have time for online lessons in things I enjoy and I have tons of time to sew. Basically, life under quarantine is magical for me. I’m starting to wonder if I’m even human at this point. 

I realize I am incredibly privileged to be feeling this way. I live in a rural area where it is easy to maintain social and physical distance from others in the community. I did lose current and potential work but I was on EI and am still getting payments. My government has set up financial assistance programs that I can apply for when my EI runs out and I am not worried about money. I have no children to entertain or homeschool. Things are easy for me.

I don’t mean to trivialize or ignore the hardships others are going through because of this pandemic, I only mean to acknowledge that for some, including myself, normal life came with more stress and anxiety than this pandemic. Weird. 

[metaloma]

Nothing should go back to normal