#tw covid

[elmstinsomniac]

I felt icky all day and thought “let me just test myself” I HAVE FUCKING COVID 😭

[liyisok]

Btw, COVID still exists.

It didn't just go away after 2022.

I got COVID in 2025 (I'm fine, but I just wanted to acknowledge this)

We need a memorial for the people who have died from it, a proper CDC to prevent it from happening again, and NO old people making our decisions.

[dreamhacker606]

I’m so frustrated being educated in my field of work (science) when I was doing my schooling during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

They need lab experience, but how can I even GET lab experience when, during the peak of my undergrad, I couldn’t get it because of Covid-19 and how mishandled it was.

I’m still feeling the effects TODAY—a little over 6 years later—of how much the pandemic fucked up a vital part of my life. I really don’t know what to do besides go back, get a different Master’s, and hope for the best because holy fuck I’m so damn tired of failing to find work with just the Master’s I have now.

[holybananapants]

When I was younger, I had a grandfather I loved so so dearly. My papa. He died when I was ten.

It has been six years. We didn’t get to visit him because of the pandemic.

When I was seven, he had a seizure. I don’t remember it but he was at our dinner table, we were having root beer floats. I didn’t know what happened. They drove him to the hospital and he went home. He was ok, but he wasn’t allowed to drive for six months.

He loved to drive. He always wanted to be behind the wheel, he would take us out to the zoo and to movies and to the little ice cream shop in our neighborhood. He always let me get the blue one with nerds. It was called Smurfberry crunch. The owners knew him by name, even though he only came to visit twice a year.

He never drove again after his seizure. He has Parkinson’s, and he wasn’t allowed to. It wasn’t safe. That was the only thing I ever saw him cry about. As he got older, he would still practice. He would go out into his driveway and pretend. So he didn’t forget. He always wanted to drive for us again. He loved his car. An old grey minivan. He has our booster seats in the car, always.

He started dying quickly. He got covid and went to the hospital. We couldn’t visit him because there weren’t vaccinations yet and the hospitals didn’t allow visitors. That week he had planned to take us to Disney. We had all driven down to Florida to see his family. He never arrived. Gramma called us from the parking lot. He said he loved us, and that he would see us soon.

He had a tv is his room of our house. He would sit there watching the news, and once his program was over, I would try to sneak in and scare him. He always scared us first. His shaky hands and rainbow suspenders. His old shirt with an ice cream shop logo and drips down the front.

He is the only one I miss. When I drive, I will drive for him.

[liyisok]

The parent lore I'll use when I have kids (I already do this with my partners' kids, Squiddo can attest for me)

"I survived the pandemic."

"Back in the day, we used to entertain ourselves with flipping water bottles."

"They made us wear masks on our faces."

"I am way older than AI, kiddo."

"If I survived two years, you can survive one."

[liyisok]

I feel like we all need to rewatch Tiger King if we haven't already, because this shit was worse than we thought it was back during the pandemic. We were trauma watching it during the first week of the pandemic so we weren't taking in how chaotic and insane this actually was. This is still one of the best documentaries I've ever heard about.

I never watched it but my mom did and she was talking about it.

And I did some research on Carole Baskin and if she killed Don Lewis, and I just gotta say, we are so sorry that we called you a murderer. You did not kill Don Lewis. He was in Costa Rica the entire time.

[liyisok]

My future grandkids: "Oh my god grandma, you must've been so scared during COVID 😭😭😭"

No. I just didn't give a fuck. I had no concept of fear back then. I was a middle schooler when COVID hit. I was only quarantined once for 2 days and I didn't get it. It was only after COVID had died down (it's not over) that I got it from my family after they returned from a cruise.

[rrrrrcps]

What was it like playing the iconic regina george in the meangirls remake?

i had played her on broadway already and things got cut short due to the pandemic so getting to do the movie felt a little too good to be true at first but i'm glad i did it and was given a second chance to properly get my version out there.