TikTokers Are BEGGING For ANOTHER Lockdown..

[@aishageorge3056]

Child ab*se and DV rates were sky-high during lockdown. Children who could escape their ab*ser by going to school were trapped, women who escaped their abuser by going to work, men who escaped their abuser by going to work were TRAPPED. That's so scary... I would never wish that situation on them ever again.

[@slendr_playr9183]

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes's cries still haunts me...

[@reaper6047]

More people need to read this.

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

My unsafe environment was in school, not home.

[@anandabliss9997]

Not to mention the amount of families who became homeless

[@reaper6047]

@@anandabliss9997 man, I can't have the radio on for more than 10 minutes without an ad playing that's this dad talking to a friend about how they're glad they're kids are young enough that they can just call it "camping". It's so so sad.

[@naomino7222]

Lockdown killed my education and verbally insulted my confidence while dancing on the grave of my social skills. Never. Again.

[@crzycatpurse.in_2.0]

this hit hard

[@EvelynDraws1]

Real. I don't care if we have to go into lockdown, I will simply refuse

[@m4tta]

same, i failed highschool completely because i just couldn’t cope with online classes

[@kurieita7607]

I was in like 7th grade when it started and it was only in my freshman year of Highschool when schools were normal again, no hybrid online/in person classes and I failed bc the longer I stayed in school the more tired and anxious I got bc ig during lockdown my anxiety I get from my parents became chronic and by the end of my Sophmore year I had mostly given up, get me to the start of junior year and I did absolutely nothing until the put me into an online program where I could work from home and function normally again; I might pass now bc this is a program for like, kids with full time jobs, kids with babies, and kids like myself who can’t function in a school setting, but within my almost full 3 years I started self harm other than my usual scratching, attempted twice? I believe? Was sent to a Hospital as an inpatient, gave up on school completely bc I thought that was the only way I could keep going on - purely bc I couldn’t get use to being back in school again without severe anxiety hitting me

[@Ewan-tc1zu]

Meanwhile people died and lost the people they loved. Your complaints sound really entitled

[@lunabunny1047]

People really don't know. My neighbors husband died after being denied by the hospital. He died in their house. My neighbor wasn't able to leave the house that her own husband died in because of the lockdown. She wasn't able to get away. She couldn't even have a proper funeral. She had about two weeks later deleted herself, and I feel if she could have socialized and talked to people, it would have been better. Those people are really gonna be thinking about their outfits when someone they love, die in their house, and they aren't allowed to leave.

[@middleeasternforhire8985]

Happened to my neighbour too she lost her husband and as soon as lockdown ended she moved to America and rented the her house not to mention my own parents almost died of covid hell naw

[@Insertia_Nameia]

The lockdowns were necessary because of the virus but that doesn't change the MASSIVE struggles that came out from it. Our infrastructure is built on socialization. WE HUMANS are built on socialization. Our species only survived because of how social we are. We do not do well when isolated for long periods of time. We just don't. Our brains can't handle it. Our systems were not built for the isolation that came with this. A lot of tech improved to help people connect in just a few short yrs BECAUSE of how important socializing is for us humans. And many older folk don't know how to use the tech (and even then it can never fully replace real human to human contact.)

[@skootergirl22]

I'm so sorry that happened to you, we didn't have the equivalent to plague waggons

[@orangesnowflake3769]

I dont understand how she wasnt allowed to leave? We were allowed a 1 hour per day walk ?

[@skootergirl22]

@orangesnowflake3769 they did advise people to go outside but keep distance

[@chinchillaexists]

As a teen, I lost a good amount of my childhood to the pandemic. I don’t want to lose my teen years to another one. These people aren’t even thinking about how these lockdowns affected others.

[@russellmania5349]

They are commies, what do you expect?

[@skittlePsychic]

same, im so scared to literally miss high school because of lockdown (even though that is a few years away) even though i know that another lockdown is unlikely as most countries already have the vaccine and medicine, it pretty much is very bad for poorer countries (for example africa)

[@wheresstahi]

already lost my teen years due to homeschool AND covid and I’ll be damned if I miss out on my 20’s and university life because a bunch of little kids want to play fortnite and make whipped coffee all day

[@walker4322]

I lost basically my 20s. Turned 22 essentially in 2020. Then spent 2 years just trying to financially recover ( still am too)

[@skittlePsychic]

@@wheresstahi ikr?? like the hardly even care for how other people feel because they wanna make whipped coffees and shit like YOU CAN MAKE WHIPPED COFFEES NO MATTER IF THERE IS A DAMN GLOBAL ISSUE RN D:

[@sunshine72699]

As someone who had a traumatizing lockdown AND getting married this year, if we had another lockdown, my mental health would probably decline into scary levels. It would be horrible.

[@patotive4704]

People: -lost their family members/loved ones -lost their jobs -some were trapped inside the house with no way of escaping an abuser (partners/parents) -could not finish their education -could not afford basic things like food or for hygiene -if you were lucky enough not to actually contract the disease you couldnt see other people -if you saw other people u probably would get the disease that makes you not being able to leave your bed for weeks minimum

[@Ewan-tc1zu]

Meanwhile people DIED from COVID and lost people to COVID. While whiney kids complained they couldn't have parties or walk on a stage for graduation. No one's education wasn't finished. However graduation ceremonies were canceled but they still graduated. In fact virtual school was massive and born and still is today because of it. The school systems had no issue. All those things you're listing aren't anything in the grand scheme of people who DIED FROM COVID. and are still dying.

[@patotive4704]

@@Ewan-tc1zu idk about your country, in my country there were MANY kids and teenagers who didnt finish school bc they didnt have the resources to do online school (i live in brazil) so they jus gave up and started working early and abandoned school. Also i did mention people lost family members and friends, thought it was obvious i meant: from COVID

[@Glorp67]

Womp womp I want another lockdown it would be awesome

[@AGK1999FE]

Adding to the list "got stuck in a foreign country, couldn't go back home" yeah that happened to me☠️

[@patotive4704]

@@AGK1999FE YE so many people just got their lives screwed and the melodys out here with their whipped coffee saying they miss it

[@alldayyve8862]

Another lockdown meant another for us medical professionals and staff. It means staying in the hospital for days, toxic duty, not enough medical personnel and lastly underpaid but overworked. People wanting to have another lockdown are just so selfish. A lot of livelihood will close down again, and it is so hard to see your family and friends stress about it.

[@alldayyve8862]

Hell**

[@skootergirl22]

I'm sure the WHO is working on something to prevent another LD

[@Zozo4VM]

My dad was working in a hospital at the time covid hit (now he’s teaching medical) and he couldn’t touch us until he took a deep scrubbed shower everyday. Couldn’t come home and hug his kids, but instead straight to the shower until he could see his skin turning red

[@skootergirl22]

@@Zozo4VM surprised he didn't scrub until he saw the muscle tissue

[@12345maryrocks]

Thank you medical professionals I just worked in a grocery store during that time. More specifically I worked at the Starbucks kiosk. Since we were hired thought the grocery store we were considered essential employees. Corporate Starbucks locations, free standing buildings. They were given the option to stay home with full pay or come in to work and keep working. Most of them closed due to not enough staff. We were the only kiosk open in a huge radius. We had no choice. We had a customer scream at me because it was noon and they drove close to 2 hours. Yes I have to close at noon but we had a novel sized list of things we were out of. Like we only had brewed coffee, brewed tea at one point and maybe one food item. The people that did come throughout like would cus at us, throw drinks ect. It was common for you to come in, open, close for lunch then close completely. We were so short that what little baristas we have we worked 7 day weeks, we volunteered for 12hr shifts ect. I feel like essential workers need to have the same time off just no pandemic. Let the people that did stay home, let them return the favor and wait on me. 😂

[@tomemaster1744]

My Lockdown was unemployment and trying not to get murdered by my drug dealing neighbour. No family, no friends.

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

Glad you made it

[@Flour262]

I’m happy your still here

[@expertpanda513]

So happy you made it out to the other side .

[@Glorp67]

womp womp shoulda been iced

[@trealhana]

Does he sell weed?

[@thespadeexperience]

I am someone who struggles with severe social anxiety and a genuine phobia of being perceived (imagine going through an internal or external panic attack if someone even looks in your general direction) and yet I would NEVER wish for another pandemic or lockdown. So many people lost so much during that period, and it’s horrific that so many chronically online kids and teens want to repeat that.

[@thespadeexperience]

I also have junior year to worry about right now. Going online or no class at all would genuinely kill most if not all of my academic skills.

[@RegrowAnation]

I was second grade in the pandemic It Ruined My Childhood. aughhh

[@tinkerbellmae]

Same social anxiety the lock down made Goin to grocery so unbelievable 😢😢

[@jennuhcide59]

@@RegrowAnationur still a child?? 😂😂😭

[@RegrowAnation]

@@jennuhcide59 ye so what

[@xheartx2840]

I was 9 during the lock down. And just the year prior I had to evacuate because of a gas explosion. During the lockdown I would watch the news seeing so many people dead and I remember the pain of living. The pain of losing a child sounds so horrible. It ruined me as a person. Then my parents got Covid. They almost died. I remember crying in my room while I missed my mom’s hug telling me it was okay. I was so scared. The lockdown was horrible on everyone. Seeing people hope for another one makes me so sick. I wish people didn’t make jokes out of everything and take things so lightly because the lockdown wasn't a long summer break. families died physically and mentally. and even now after all the healing i went through writing this made me cry. 4 years and im still affected by that. now imagine how people must feel, the ones that DID lose close family.

[@yappatronmk2]

sorry to hear that man I was 8 during the lockdown and my auntie got it I was worried af

[@angelaplays]

This is NOT the year for another lockdown. Please.

[@velcro-is-a-rip-off]

I mean mass disabling is so much better, as it is! You're so right queen

[@no.name.4.u]

People have the power to say no! (edit, meaning : do not comply with the insanity.. it made nothing better last time)

[@iiCounted-op5jx]

fr bro I actually planned on getting my shit together this year after 4 years of wasting my life, my life is supposed to be beginning this year 😭 if we having another lockdown fuck it bro I'm not staying inside any longer 💀

[@espor9297]

I had work during the whole time.

[@sparklepugtea]

Yes, my life finally started looking up. Got a few healthy relationships and more confident! I don’t want more family health scares

[@kirstylashworth7382]

I'll say it here. I am so sick of these privileged people romantisizing lockdown. I had a horrible time during the lockdown. My grandad died, and we couldn't spend time with him as he was scared of going out. My great aunt has severe learning difficulties and was stuck with her mum who had dementia in a dirty house. My mum saved their lives by calling social services, who were reluctant to check on them. My aunt got cancer and she couldn't spend her last months the way she wanted to and we couldn't have the wedding my aunt wanted. I nearly lost my educational health care plan, and we had to fight for it. Luckily, my college helped with that. My sister got depression. My mums mental health was bad because she had to deal with two deaths during lockdown with no support. I lost my classmate to suicide. I had my education ruined, and I got headaches due to online learning. The social club I went to shut down and hasn't opened up because there's no funding. I almost lost my sanity during lockdown as I didn't have good support because everyone else was struggling. I can't relate to these privileged people.

[@EvelynDraws1]

That sounds awful. I hope you are better now

[@kirstylashworth7382]

@@EvelynDraws1 things were better after lockdown thank you.

[@strawberrytiramisu]

Same. My grandpa also passed. He was sick with covid and had fallen and gotten stuck overnight between his bed and his dresser (there was a gap between the furniture pieces). He couldn’t reach his phone and was stuck for hours. It’s a blessing that my mom always called him to check on him and when he wasn’t answering, she had a friend of his with a key to his place check on him. Less than a week in the hospital later, he couldn’t take the pain the symptoms were causing him and he pretty much had the doctors stop all treatments. He passed away but none of us could say goodbye in person. It was through the phone. Fucking horrible. Then at the funeral we couldn’t get close to his body to say our goodbyes because he was ill when he was still with us.

[@Ewan-tc1zu]

No one romanticizes lockdown. However there ARE people who support it and want it because they suffer from grave health conditions if they got covid they would surely die. Very young people. Who have lives and families too. And people to protect. Just as you think others shouldn't be selfish because you personally had a bad experience during lockdown doesn't mean they don't think that you shouldn't be selfish either just because you don't understand why lockdowns happen. If covid got bad again there would need to be a lockdown. In some parts there still needs to be. That doesn't mean people wish there was. Nobody wants to have a sickness risking people's life and family. I'm sorry those things happened to you. And sorry for your loss. However I hear you shouting that people shouldn't think of only themselves while at the same time you're doing exactly what those people are doing..thinking only of yourself. Lockdown also helps prevent sickness and death too. There should never be one unless it's a public global health emergency. But either way for people who think lockdown was fun I guess, it's still hard on everyone. So I hope you're gearing your remarks towards insane people who want lockdown for no reason. Instead of people who support lockdowns during pandemics.

[@Stitcheroo2]

​@@strawberrytiramisu 🫂

[@Kuro_akumashi]

People don't understand that people lost things during those lockdowns. I lost two friends because they thought they wouldn't make it out of that lockdown, so they left on their own. That took a tole on my mental state, and I still haven't recovered. (How I knew they left, one's mom called me, and the other family kept posting R.I.P to my friend.) I still miss them, and those years are the WORST years of my life, so I would never wanna relive that time.

[@chanterelle483]

So sorry

[@orangesnowflake3769]

I dont understand, they thought they wouldnt make it out? Why ensure they wouldnt make it out?

[@VannahSavage]

@@orangesnowflake3769 tell me you’ve never struggled with depression and suicidal ideation without telling me.

[@orangesnowflake3769]

@VannahSavage I have once but it was cause by medication but no I haven't dealt with that under any other circumstances tbh

[@VannahSavage]

@@orangesnowflake3769 so maybe don't judge the "logic" of people who do. Depression makes your brain process things differently.

[@m4tta]

i have never been as suicidal as i was during covid lockdown. not being able to do anything hit my mental health like a truck

[@X-CosmicVixen-X]

No cause like Covid made me so lazy, I lost all motivation for everything and almost made myself fail school at the time. It was so hard to convince myself to do anything because my family was also really sick and I was convinced that we were all going to pass

[@DelphineTheWorstBladeEver]

As someone who had a privileged lockdown, yeah. People who glorify it clearly didn't have loved ones going through it. That's just mental.

[@Lou_animates]

PLEASE NO. I’ve just managed to socialise normally again…

[@loveshackbella]

Yea same 😅

[@EvaMetalhankle]

I'm still looking for the vaccine for people not having time to socialise anymore.

[@idontsm0ke]

Im still halfway to socializing

[@AspienWaifu]

I still can’t leave the house without my husband because I developed such terrible agoraphobia….I haven’t even began to socialize properly again, I feel for you and everyone else commenting, keep your heads up everyone ❤

[@mr.foxasmg]

REAL ASF PLEASE LETS NOT GO BACK TO FUCKIIINNNNN SQUARE ONE

[@potnoned]

teenager here, lockdown stunted my social skills massively. some of the most developmental years of someone's life being stuck indoors, maybe with no friends, really sucks. i am only becoming a better and more reasonable person now that i go to school. being around people and coming to terms with stuff that happens at school made me grow so much, while in lockdown i just kept pummeling down a spiral of self-loathing. Lockdown is incredibly unhealthy for teenagers

[@JoshtheSpooder]

​@@user-tj4ee6si7x I'm so glad that u had a good lockdown. But pls watch the video and read the comments about how it was torture for so many. Also , how can u sit there and say that its a person's own fault for not breaking the lockdown rules??? Pls have some actual empathy and think before u comment

[@CoquetteKaraku]

Same. I couldn’t go anywhere with a huge crowd of people without feeling like I was about to have a panic attack. I still get very anxious around crowds

[@autex.lewis06]

I am a senior in High School (year 13 for those in ANZUKland) who happens to be on the autism spectrum and when the COVID lockdown happened, I was in 7th and 8th grades, so I spent the majority of my middle school days stuck at home. Due to the nature of my autism I already happen to not do well socially, which led to me being bullied tremendously in my later elementary/primary school years (think 4th-6th grades, or years 5-7) which only added fuel to the fire and severely stunted my social development. 7th grade/Year 8 seemed like a breath of fresh air as my bullies went to a different middle school and I managed to make a friend only for it to come crashing down come March of 2020. 3-4 years later and while my social skills have improved some, they still have not improved to where I want them to be and I still get anxiety over having a simple conversation lasting longer than 5-10 minutes

[@Glorp67]

Womp womp cope harder little kid

[@subplzorideleteurchannel7193]

Same, especially considering I was 13 and already going through hell beforehand.

[@sanjanat1085]

I was super fortunate to not have anything tragic happen. My parents were able to keep their jobs and I thank the stars every day that I didn't lose anyone. Worst thing that happened was having to deal with being sick with the virus for like two weeks but that's it. I still wouldn't ever want another lockdown or pandemic, just by seeing how much grief it caused others. You don't have to have something terrible happen to yourself to have a sense of empathy and awareness.

[@LissaChelle9002]

Same here. While I enjoyed not having to go into work for a short while, I would NEVER want to endure another lockdown again.

[@nevergoingtogiveyaup]

I still remember back then when I got COVID once and I thought I was gonna die, I was convinced there was no cure. But luckily everyone and our cat survived and we're doing fine now. I'm glad for you, too.

[@tingu6378]

In Sweden we never had lockdowns, the politicians knew that it would end like it did for so many people that they thought people would earn more not being in lockdown. It worked

[@rasmushedberg3655]

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[@candiivaxxx4421]

no because the lockdown literally caused so many problems for me and I’m sure it would for other people who’s safe spaces are out of the house. I really hope we don’t have another one :(

[@Demonetization_Symbol]

My safe space was at home.

[@aliencatmeow]

@@Demonetization_Symbol same. lockdown means i dont have to go to the office and deal with people or have them ask me to go to bullshit office outings. now with no lockdown i *have* to go to them. so i severely don't understand why people are mad.

[@havidikevidi]

@@aliencatmeow Uh, selfish much? Just because you hate interactions doesn't mean everyone does. People genuinely missed hanging out with their friends outside as not everyone loves being stuck at home all the time. Because of lockdown some couldn't even visit their loved ones that later on passed away because of the virus and you wanna tell them you don't understand why they're mad?? Unbelieveable.

[@RainDoesArt1116]

SAME school is my safe space ..

[@mayb4585]

@@aliencatmeowpeople were dying. And you’re sad you have to go outside 😢

[@ILOVEFRED_DURST]

My brother is 12 and even he understands the severity and consequences of another lockdown. We were both constantly living in fear of our grandma dying because of her auto-immune disease and her catching covid. I lost my first two years of middle school and had depressive episodes during the lockdown. Nobody can do another lockdown.

[@skittlePsychic]

me too, 3 of my family members died (that i loved so much), i missed a very important grade of my life (3rd-very little of 4th), and now i can't socialize well (i had bad socialization before so it was way worse now), i got depressive episodes during and even after, but now ive been focusing on my mental health and now i haven't gone into a depressive episode in a few months and i have a few friends now! don't give up

[@ILOVEFRED_DURST]

@@skittlePsychic hey man, glad your mental health is better. i’m really sorry none of your family members died. none of my family died but a lot of them were dealing with severe mental health struggles and quite a few of them were struggling to receive medication to help with their mental illnesses. the lockdown hurt a lot of people and i’m very sorry you’re one of them. super glad you’re getting better now though :)

[@subplzorideleteurchannel7193]

My already horrific 7th grade year was cut short by the pandemic, and the first half of my 8th grade year was virtual. My city went from a great small Southern town with great people to one of the biggest shit-holes ever because of the pandemic, and it still is, so as soon as we were allowed to go on vacation and had enough money to do it we took the trip.

[@skittlePsychic]

@@ILOVEFRED_DURST thank you dude :D

[@sxg4rfr3e]

be happy, you have a sane brother

[@shayladavis1843]

Just the other day I was arguing with my friend for saying she wanted lockdowns back because in her fantasy it was just fun because she could relax and play games. Lockdowns stressed me out so much and set my grades back terribly, and had a big affect on my social anxiety even once the lockdowns ended. I don’t know if I could survive another one at my age.

[@lvndszzzz0]

let her do her own thing honestly..theres no use arguing with her when its not gonna get you anywhere. ppl r gonna be selfish it sucks but yeah

[@skootergirl22]

Well no one is stopping them from doing those things now

[@Shadow-th1zw]

my grades in 2020 were all fs im surprised that i even passes

[@idolwhisper]

I was abused everyday by my parents and when school opened up again every friend i had ignored me so i was left alone and bullied. I think privileged people should stay silent. They had fun cuz daddy's money brought home food and anything they dreamed of when us unlucky folks went through hell.

[@Shadow-th1zw]

@@idolwhisper i feel so bad for you i pray that your living a better life

[@ElizabethCunningham-ps4ct]

I had anxiety issues, suicidal thoughts and depression before the lock down and after the lock down it all skyrocketed, i can't go out to places with loud music or lot of people without having a panic attack, my drades in school worsend, my social skills are almost all gone. I onestly don't know how i would survive in a nother lock down and it's crazy to think that other people don't see all the damage that c*vid and lockdowns caused.

[@Dress_And_Read]

I had a privileged lockdown, as my dad kept working during it. My life didn’t change all that much because I’m homeschooled. I miss the point in my life I was in, and I wish I was in that position in my life again, but I don’t miss actual lockdown. Any activities I had to socialize with anyone was gone. We had a family friend die in December of 2019, from what we think was an early case of Covid. It was not a great time. I’ve had Covid 3 times, thankfully never severe, but it has screwed up my eyes horribly and has given me several bald spots. The world cannot handle another pandemic/lockdown and I know it

[@KeevanNorton]

the only things i loved about lockdown were: • how united we were in this shared experience • how the earth healed itself that is it!

[@f1nnick.f1lms]

Me too 🫶🏻

[@basilmelonn]

and once lockdown ended the world broke again

[@jasperdrawings]

You forgot the empty animal shelters because everyone got a pet. I adopted a bearded dragon who’s been irreplaceable for my mental health ever since. It might just be my autistic value of animals but it was genuinely nice to see shelter workers celebrating the last dog in the shelter to be adopted.

[@skootergirl22]

The riots?

[@KeevanNorton]

let me be clear that these positives do not by any means outweigh the many, many negatives of it too. i don’t want to seem like i am ignoring those because i absolutely am not. the dv cases rising, the homelessness, the deaths… the list goes on. i would never deliberately ignore these issues

[@roxannlegg750]

The worst part of it all for us was the paranoia that came with it - my hubbie has tourettes and his is in the form of coughs and tics and sniffs - he was thrown off his regular bus to work in the mornings on THREE sep occasions (on the times when we WERENT in lockdown) because the bus driver complained he was a public health threat and no amount of explaining to a non english native speaking buss driva that he had a condition that was NOT contagious.! It is a disability and he was deemed sick. So - no - we never want to go back to that again. CONGRATULATIONS on 600k!

[@cyewilliams6041]

i also have coughing and throat clearing tics and i remember it hurting so bad tryign to hold them in during line at the store or any time i was in public. cause how was i supposed to explain that im not sick?

[@roxannlegg750]

@@cyewilliams6041 Thats aweful!! My hubbie has struggled with it in his professional career place too. He works in IT and in an open office space area, he was once reported to HR for having a contagious disease - and he was hauled to HR to explain himself. Can you imagine the humiliation, and having ASD, he didnt cope well. I had to intervene and speak with HR and management and give them a verbal thrashing. In the end, they became terrified of me. He was VERY valuable to them with irreplaceable inhouse knowledge, but he was like a mouse - but Im like a rotweiller. I will NOT allow anyone to treat my ASD hubbie and (now adult) children with disrespect!

[@HELLINA-HANDBASKET]

I worked 12-hour shifts in a dementia care home during the pandemic and I wouldn't wish those days on my worst enemy, the heartbreak of residents passing without their families, staff crashing and burning almost every day because of the stress, I cannot fathom why anyone would want to go through that again!.

[@luckysan4653]

My mom works with people with dementia too, and she also always came home telling is how sad and heartbreaking it was seeing those sweet people lonely like that, not knowing why no one came to visit them while they used to always visit them💔 Everyone who wants a lockdown again is either really young, dumb and/or really selfish, because WHY would you want that again? I'll never understand some people...

[@Jellytimestudios]

As someone who had to do online school, it was horrible. People really take being able to see their friends again in person for granted.

[@user-i224]

I HATE HATE HATE the lockdown, everyone saying that they were playing games all night. bro! I had restricted wifi, so maybe only an hour a day, so I only had 1 hour 1 HOUR!!! to do a whole 6 hours!!! of schoolwork. so everything was rushed so I would get bad grades, then I would get yelled at. it got to a point where they would hover over my shoulder. so then for the next 23 hours... what did I do? no friends to see. no games to play, NOTHING. I would hate to go back to that!!!

[@Vanity831]

Why are these people glorifying the lockdown??? My mom (a nurse) has never been more stressed or burnt out during lockdown. Every day that she came home she was both physically and mentally drained. It made me feel bad for her every time I saw her. I do NOT want to deal with that nightmare of a year. Not ever.

[@traderLeah]

so was she the kind who danced on tiktok for clout, the kind begging to be labeled a "hero" or the kind unnecessarily intubating patients that didn't need it and causing even more deaths (which if coded under c*vid, got the hospital more money)? like what do you want a cookie, a high-five or a trophy?

[@ImNotEpix]

yeah my mom was a nurse too, she'd work so much overtime and bascially sleep whenever she had a second of free time

[@seleciaa]

My older sister is a nurse, and it was very hard on her as well. :/ I'm training to be a nurse, and I can't even imagine entering the field during another lockdown.

[@colorfulphoenix23]

Yeah, my dad was a paramedic and his wife was a nurse so I was isolated from my dad for 2 years straight.

[@deegutsy7574]

​@@traderLeah are you okay in the head? why would you immediately assume that about someone you don't know?

[@Sunkissedspirit]

Do they not realise the unaliving rates jumped up DURING lockdown ??? People could not handle it and everyone hated it because of the mental health repercussions. EVEN THE HEALTHIEST PEOPLE TOOK A BLOW. These people need professional help

[@u_ImNotKeqing]

Why are people wanting the days where everyone was miserable, loved ones were passing away, adults were losing jobs, everyone needed to stay in their houses like a punishment a kid would get for disrespecting their parents and being overall ill-behaved, people were attempting to commit end game, etc... back again?

[@skootergirl22]

Well they can easily do those things now, they can role-play a LD

[@its_heeho]

​@GanymedeWasHereYou know, bait used to be believable

[@bladeinthesmint5995]

@GanymedeWasHereyea yea little Timmy, go back to your mass dose of the clock app

[@alderfae9898]

I think a lot of the people who want this were probably in a privileged position where they didn't have to work and could still pay their bills, or could work from home. I was in the latter. I loved being able to work from home, and I wish that my job had kept remote work as an option. However, I'm also a bit of a homebody, so my home is a safe space for me. However, I'd never want lock down again. I'd never want to be forced to stay home again.

[@Sofia-io3rs]

All those things considered, it's insensitive to wish for it to happen again. But from the perspective of an introvert who was provided for and was in high school back then, it was bliss as long as u don't think about how hellish it was for everyone else. And now that it's over, we have to cope with being around people again. Like, u can't say "ur grounded" is a punishment to people who like it. Unfortunately things have to be severely wrong on a global scale for people to get a break from everything for a good while

[@cereaIsoup]

Lockdown made my mother loose her job. She couldn't make ends meet even with a nurses job, we're barely finding the right path now. I am not living through something like that right after I just got a smidge of accomplishment from simply going to a store without freaking tf out.

[@lilahpanan1875]

I was a junior in High school when the first lockdown happened. I broke away from my abusive father and girlfriend, I lost three family members to the virus, I dealt with s*icidal thoughts and s*lfharm, and felt like there was no way out. I was an anxious mess, and facing my fears and going to college was so hard. I can’t do it again. I have two more years of school. Please. I cannot do it again. My family is struggling with my grandpa’s chemo bills and I sometimes cannot afford dinner. I can’t do it again. The thing is, while you’d think I would have been able to do my hobbies or better myself during lockdown. I couldn’t. I was too anxious and depressed. I laid in my bed terrified for the next day. My hobbies were as untouched as now. I cannot. Do it. Again.

[@spencerpearson1321]

It’s funny how many people are nostalgic for lockdowns. For me nothing changed. As an “essential worker“ I was basically forced to risk my life for little pay every day just to make ends meet. I’m happy these people had nice experiences but their privilege is showing.

[@DieDoggoWoord]

Yeah fr. I l was tho king back on what I was doing and when it started, I was working for a hotel that stayed booked the entire time and barely accommodated the employees thus deceiving the guests about sanitation and what not. I left after a month in and the ONLY job that I was able to get for a solid year (I was applying everywhere the whole time) was being a pizza delivery driver. 🤦 my town in decent sized but not many jobs and I needed work so I had to. Risked my life, my bf, and family’s entire life because I needed to pay my bills and didn’t have another way🤦

[@spencerpearson1321]

@@DieDoggoWoord that’s how it always is. the Richies have a great time while the rest of us get fucked.

[@erinmartin1768]

This. Nothing changed for me either. Except my waistline because I was stress eating, lol.

[@jackiealexander92530]

@@erinmartin1768wow this is facts, I gained so much weight when I was an “essential worker” working my ass off at the grocery store. Thankfully I switched jobs already and have lost some of that weight, but stress eating is so real.

[@subplzorideleteurchannel7193]

Both of my parents were deemed essential workers by my state. Me and my sister were home alone all day in 2020, and oh boy, did it suck.

[@HobieInTheBox]

These are definitely children who were between 10-14 during lock down. And they definitely were also comfortable financially during that time. Smh

[@burnttoast385]

So true.

[@skootergirl22]

Some were born duing and have anxiety at age 2 meeting other children

[@SugiyamaHiromin]

Meanwhile people who were planning to find a first job during that time were fcked over. Employers seem to already be forgetting the years and ask why there´s a gap 20-22 and we all know how most of them see gaps either between jobs or end of school to job.

[@sharkie_1167]

i was around that age and I consider myself pretty well off, and yea was super at the time privileged but I understood the severity of the pandemic. I js wish we were mature enough to understand that the pandemic was NOT GOOD. At all. Though I do wish i got those years of my childhood back but I can’t imagine how hard it must’ve been for my seniors who didn’t graduate properly, or ppl older and less fortunate.

[@HobieInTheBox]

@@sharkie_1167 yeah unfortunately this isn't uncommon teenage behaviour. The point though, is that you do things wrong now and are taught that this isn't okay and why.

[@Rennie-z4x]

Most people can’t even socialise properly because of the past pandemic!! What’ll happen after a second one? Christ, I can’t even speak to a McDonald’s employee about my damn order.

[@smajliiicka]

Yeah, stringing a normal sentence without acting like a weirdo is even harder... And then seeing some ppl with masks again... I can't ae

[@Bleplebeian]

the past few times ive gone to a full/big family gathering since the lockdown like christmas and such i have had anxiety attacks and worried my family with them on accident. now that's not *just* the lockdown, since ive struggled pretty badly with my mental health before, but i do suspect that its a part of it.

[@OgreponMyBeloved]

I am also one of those people. I can barely even speak to a stranger, and it has affected me so much. (hope you’re all doing well!

[@euamo_musica]

My relationship with my mom went from bad to horrible during the pandemic; I stayed behind on school since today because of the pandemic; I lost my grandpa to the virus; I lost contact with 90% of my friends, and I actually almost ended up in a mental hospital. I don't want another lockdown!😊

[@euamo_musica]

Not to mention my grandpa made part of the (roughly around) 700.000 deceased people that lost their lives during the pandemic

[@b19wing]

@@euamo_musica I’m so sorry that is awful

[@bliissade]

Worked most days during lock down, didn't get the choice to be inside all day. Had the crippling fear every day that I would get covid or pass covid to my family members. Worried so much that some of my hairs turned gray. People who are wanting a second lock down don't seem to understand that the world might have stopped for them, but for the rest of us who kept the norm day to day so you could stay inside, we never got a break.

[@pceluvNdorkyness]

Thank you for saying THIS

[@hearts_from_umama]

Ok I’m gonna vent now. I’m a teenager but in 2021, I was a fresh teen ready to go to school again. But I go news that a weird virus is out and I couldn’t go. It was lockdown for a week, a month, then 2 years. I lived with my parents and grandparents. My dad got it, then my grandma, then me. It was horrible. That disease kill you mentally and physically. I was forced to stay within 4 walls with my phone, tablet, and my plushie. THATS IT. FOR 2 MONTHS. I’m lucky I survived. But unfortunately, my grandpa didn’t. I was very close to him. I don’t wanna talk about this. My social life crumbled so did my mental health. I’m finally better now and lives great but this, lockdown 2.0? HELL NAW. I HATE THESE PEOPLE WISHING ON IT. Thanks for reading.

[@Razor-gx2dq]

The people who want it are immature children.

[@tealing_]

im really sorry to hear that happened but im glad youre doing better now, lockdown was such an unbelievably tough time and heres to hoping theres not another (im sure theres not gonna be one anytime soon)

[@Streetzsanchez]

Sorry for your loss. Hope it gets better 😊

[@Holli0130]

I was 23 at the time. I can't imagine being that young in the pandemic and having to do grade school. I was in college and it sucked, but I really felt for you kids and teens. It's such a raw time in your life and you're figuring so many things out. Wishing for lockdown 2.0 would mean wishing for you kids to go through all of that again. People don't realize that lockdown wasn't that long ago. I'm sorry about your grandfather, and I hope the rest of your teenage years are far better.

[@Shadow-th1zw]

im so sorry for your loss keeping you in my prayers

[@sarah_g]

the reason 2020 lockdown seemed so good was because of how young a lot of people on tiktok were. i was only 9-10 when lockdown started, i’m now 14. i had no problems back then, i was only doing online school work, watching dsmp all day, like i had no worries. but now i’ve actually grown up and gone to high school, my mental health has plummeted. and i know if we ever had another lockdown i’d probably go insane. edit: and yes, i know i am still young and it may get worse later in life, but it just shows how harmful it was to people if someone that could be called a kid has wanted to end it all multiple times. i’m actually ashamed to be the same age and even YOUNGER than some of the people making these ‘pandemic core’ videos.

[@_acorn.c0z_]

same here, i don't think i'd be able to bear another year of isolation.

[@subplzorideleteurchannel7193]

To me, the kids that were between middle school and college when it hit were hit the hardest, like I was 13, and middle school is already the worst time of your life, and the virus made it worse, and we’re seeing the worst effects of it with the people who were that age when it happened.

[@yin2485]

It could be that every country's situation was different. As much I'm aware of bad sides of the lockdown, I cannot hate this time. Simply because I litteraly saved me from suicide, reduced my anxiety and stress (I was bad to a point of having halucinations due to it). I was in my 1st year of high school when the first lockdown in my country happened and tbf that year was terrible so being able to stay home, even with my not-the-best family was a miracle for me. I was able to convince my mom to transfer to another school next year and really got better. Even tho we got locked down not even 2 months after starting the new school year- I have to admit that my high school experience was affected though I'm not a social person so I don't think it changed too much in the end? Still, it's crazy how more time in high school I spent at home than at school. I feel more sorry for the younger kids tbh. For example my cousin is currently 10 and she STILL has trouble reading because her fist years of education were onlin. But at the same time I feel bad for my cousin that had to have his 18th bday party illigaly because lockdown started like a week before his birthday... So yeah, it all about experience people had during that year. Some probably not even related to lockdown itself. Still, I agree that years after the lockdown are not the same as does before

[@RATCONSPIRACIES]

I was a walmart employee during the initial lockdown. i had no time to be artistic or express myself i was stressed and yelled at by randos while I was just trying to do my job and watching people get home reno crap while we were supposed to not be in public except for essential items and services. a guy was carried out for screamig we were all sheeple. no lockdown again thank u.

[@he4rt5]

the absolute confusion when we (sbux baristas.. STAR.BUCKS.) were deemed essential workers i get first responders needing their coffee, but people were showing SICK. to grab their creme frappuccinos. the number or times i read about people having covid, but "it's ok because i went through the drive thru" yea, i'm sure the virus knew you went through the dt and knew not to spread to the workers or the people taking off their masks then going "BUT THERE'S NO ONE IN HERE" HELLO??? YOU'RE TELLING THE P E O P L E WORKING THERE THAT NO ONE IS THERE?? literally never felt less human than working through the pandemic which really says a lot because people dgaf before already

[@AdventureHusky]

Lockdown was an absolute nightmare for me. Everyone I loved and cared about was getting sick, I had friend's relatives dying left and right, and I was terrified to leave home because I'm immune compromised so getting that virus could have literally killed me. It didn't help that my Senior Prom got cancelled, I had to do my Senior year of HS through a screen and I couldn't see my friends. I also started college during lockdown and my anxiety had gotten so bad I couldn't show up to the calls when in in person school I had finished with straight A's. I had multiple mental breakdowns and barely took care of myself. I became terrified of the world around me and I was so alone. And then you have people on the internet glamorizing that painful period of my life...........thanks.

[@MavRambles]

When the lockdown started, I was getting ready for my senior year, I was just about through with my junior year of highschool, and I was so so excited. I wanted nothing more than to walk across the stage with all my friends and get that diploma. But then covid hit and we were all sent home. My parents were incredibly stressed, and their previous distrust became complete hatred of the government. My mom pulled me out of school and forced us into a religious homeschool program. The isolation of living in the middle of nowhere and being unable to talk to anyone I cared about was awful. My mental health plummeted, and I’m still recovering. Only recently was I able to quit harming myself. The LAST thing I want is to do that all over again. (Though now I’m across country from my mom and living with my supportive boyfriend.)

[@Tornolympyan124]

I refuse to accept any new lockdown. The first one was hell for a lot of teenagers or kids going into middle school. Youth suicide rates spiked, depression rates spiked, everyone lost their jobs and people lost their homes. It was an awful time and I hope it never returns. 2020 is the reason I almost lost my life n

[@ngarcia103]

I barely survived the first one (mentally), and I was 27. I can't imagine how my teenage self might have reacted...

[@veanng]

I also barely survived the first one and I'm a pretty much mostly mentally healed now forty year old. I probably would have dwelt in immediate escape thoughts much more as a teenager and possibly even taken one of those routes. I'm not sure I could handle it again now, honestly. That life is hell and I don't want to live it again. I also have zero intention of accepting any new lockdowns and will be voting specifically for my governor on that ONE stance alone. I hope large corporations side with the people against any suggestion of lockdown or anything even in the neighborhood of one.

[@kaitcosplaysxd]

2020 left me stranded in a house with my abusive parents 24/7. i lost career opportunities, i almost failed high school, i attempted 15 times in a year and a half. im now extremely stunted. i struggle so much with socializing that i lost all my friends. i also moved cross country right after lockdown was over which didnt help. my health took a sudden and rapid decline. ive had hEDS symptoms my whole life but pre 2020, my biggest issue was my knees hurting. now ive had to stop dancing after 16 years because trying to learn a simple tiktok dance just sent me into a half hour long episode involving a seizure and a pulse hitting 156 (probably higher, i cant check while im unconscious). i physically cant wear a mask because of my health issues. i cant work. i, and many others, will not survive another lockdown. if you miss 2020, get a remote job and do the trends that arent trending. you dont need to romanticize something that killed MILLIONS to wear the goddamn bunny hats

[@OgreponMyBeloved]

I am so, so, so sorry for you. You do not deserve any of that. I don’t have much to say, and I am also on a bit of a time crunch, but you are so strong for getting through all of that. So unbelievably strong. I hope you have a better life in the future, stranger.

[@kaitcosplaysxd]

@@OgreponMyBeloved im ok now. obviously itll take time to fully heal, but i crawled out of my window at 18, lived independently for 8 months, went back because of a falling out with my roommate at the time (weve since made up), and now ive been living out of state with my partner for over a year. i have very minimal contact with them. its still hard, but it did get better. im so glad i was never successful in those attempts

[@wren_1224]

My mental health plummeted, i was trapped in a toxic and a*usive environment, and i struggled to keep up in school. on top of that, so many people lost loved ones and their mental health declined as well. to have people being so ignorant and selfish is disgusting, especially if they’re aware of how bad it was for people, but still continue to romanticize it.

[@chibicat13]

What lock down?! I'm a front line Healthcare worker and I was working double shifts and overtime during the big C while everyone else get to stay home.

[@dustinsmith7259]

You said it right. It’s the privilege. It’s these kids who didn’t have to deal with anything who say this stuff. Meanwhile, I watched two friends of mine lose their daughter, several people lose parents, my family had several losses. People lost their jobs. Like you mentioned, mental health crises galore. And coming from someone in the States, I am unbelievably sorry for how bad lockdown was over there. I had heard about it second hand but never from a person from Australia. All of this stuff…the world suffered and we are STILL yet to all collectively recover. But no…as long as it can fit in to a “-core” or “aesthetic”, it’s fine. Gah, I hate the 2020s

[@LovePandyFace]

I love how you call idiots Muppets, but I must say....that's an insult to the Muppets lol

[@Cinnamonraisin_Bagel]

lockdown fucked up my early teen years and fucked up my grades and social life

[@jamilahzahirahhadid]

I can completely relate with thinking our anxiety was agoraphobia. Every time I would get ready and my father would bring me somewhere, I couldn’t leave the car no matter how badly I wanted to or tried. It felt incredibly helpless. I’m grateful it’s getting better for you too. 💕

[@theoreo2904]

This. I didn't have as severe agoraphobia, but I was terrified to leave my house or my car in fear of catching something life-threatening. My dad wasn't even understanding and was demeaning about anything I had an opinion on, so I was LITERALLY trapping myself in a toxic environment.

[@Annabel-i5l]

I had a good lockdown, no one I knew caught it, I didn’t lose anyone, HOWEVER I would NOT like to go though another lockdown whatsoever, I would not wish that upon anyone ever, I was young and had bad social skills anyway before lockdown and now after I have lost almost all my friends and I have really bad social anxiety, I would never wish for another lockdown just because my personal experience wasn’t devastating.

[@BillieHijabi]

thank you for talking about agoraphobia. i've been dealing with it HEAVILY these days.

[@camigoesbrr4064]

Lockdown was literally the catalyst for a disorder that I will now have for the foreseeable future. I have seizures, tics, paralysis, dystonia, and chronic pain, I’ve lost all of my independence as a twenty year old woman, and I can’t leave the house alone without ending up at the hospital or - at the very best - being picked up by someone after a bad fall or seizure. I went from being a completely able-bodied and fiercely independent teenager to having to rely completely on the people who abused me throughout all of my formative years, and I can’t move out because I’m now both too disabled to safely live alone and too much of a risk to hire at any workplace. Screw lockdown. Screw the emotional immaturity of these privileged asshats.

[@yuhtopiaa1139]

i am completely with you on this! i have all the same symptoms that you have. it really infuriates me when i see people manifesting for another lockdown. i can’t deal with any more years of this bs

[@m4tta]

contracting covid exacerbated an autoimmune response in my joints and i lost the ability to walk or move my legs for 1 year. i don’t know how i didn’t kill myself honestly

[@olganesterowicz]

I feel so bad for you... I can sorta relate, because I have experienced severe mental breakdowns like this as well.

[@aren1561]

I live in France, lockdows were not nearly as severe as Australia's. I personally was also lucky, because my parents live on a big terrain in the country side. Even then, it wasnt the best time in my life. And I would hear aboit hotel rooms getting requested (don't know the word sorry) to house dv survivors / victims forced to stay 24/7 with their abusers. About young parents who were stuck with cries and tears every second of every day. About homeless who, minus the fact that they litteraly couldn't lockdown, didn't had the necessity for masks, or showers, or anything since everything was closed. And they couldn’t ask passerby for money, there was no passerby. I heard of students going crazy in tiny appartements, alone with only their classes. And when I say tiny, I mean tiny. One bedroom appartment, sometimes only 12m². Lockdown was not a good time for common people and under.

[@Razor-gx2dq]

US here, lockdowns varied by state, mind didn't have any serve lockdowns. People got angry and started protesting in the capital of my state. So the government didn't impose anymore after that. I think the government got scared of the people, which they should be.

[@astrobabeyyy]

the lockdown was by far the worst time of my life. my mental health went down the drain and i considered offing myself MULTIPLE times it was that bad. i do not want to go through that again.

[@b4byghou1]

I feel like the relationship for many people and the covid lockdown is almost like stockholm syndrome. The nostalgia and sentiment completely blinding us therefore preventing from being objective.

[@nevergoingtogiveyaup]

I remember being young during the lockdown and everybody in the house got sick since my father was a postman and brought the illness home. I remember lying in the portable bed in the dining room for days, watching Netflix and taking a bunch of medicine, crying and praying that none of us died. Luckily, we didn't, and I'm eternally grateful for that. Damn these people who want this to happen again. I pray to all the gods of all religions that quarantine doesn't make a comeback EVER!!!

[@paulgrubb1052]

Why is everything reduced to an “aesthetic” or “core” these days?! We do not want another lockdown! Lockdowns should only be used as a last resort! Even then it seemed like one rule for the higher ups and another for the rest (Boris Johnson and Partygate being a prime example) and that in turn inspired more Covidiots to break rules. My mental health has often been in the toilet at the best of times and lockdown didn’t help. It also brought on horrible headaches that still sometimes bother me to this day. It was so depressing being stuck indoors all the time. The bin went out more than I did for a start! We were all pushed to our limits. It wasn’t nice or fun and other people had relatives that died and couldn’t even be with them in their final moments. We DO NOT want a repeat! TikTok is definitely poison and brainrot. It’s so stupid that even I don’t go on there and I definitely deserve a drongo award for some things I’ve done in the past!

[@skootergirl22]

They could easily role-play a lockdown no one is stopping them from doing those things

[@paulgrubb1052]

@GanymedeWasHere everyone? What about children, parents, and teachers involved with the chaotic mess that was online learning?!

[@beepboop97]

We aren't all children in school. ​@GanymedeWasHere

[@squishy3248]

@GanymedeWasHereyou love no school until suddenly you realize you can’t see your friends, or go out, or do anything but rot at home. And what about the adults who aren’t living at home with parents to take care of them? Grow up

[@dana-pagame-la-terapia]

I did not have a bad experience with lockdown. I got to watch TV more often, I was still in touch with my friends and I even got a cat... But I was a kid, soon to be a teenager. A kid who lost her lasts years of childhood without even realizing it. I am terrified of growing up, and having my last moments of childhood be reduced to staying at home all day doing little to nothing... It's so bizarre to me...

[@Faunadude]

Fr

[@trishabey11]

Same I started 2020 as a nine year old. The lockdown came ONE DAY before my birthday. I lost my tween years, and I know someone who I've realized lost his teens. I sympathize for him, but I REALLY don't want to end up in his shoes next year. I'm afraid of growing up. Heck, I'm not even ready for *8th grade!* These people are just... sick.

[@Cropation]

Its 100% stupidity

[@st4rface_r1ssie]

i literally cannot take another one. my social skills are in the negatives as it was, and the lockdown didn't help. i remember being terrified of dying every day. i genuinely believe if the lockdown hadn't happened my anxiety wouldn't be this fucking horrible, and drama kween, i empathize with you and hope you are doing better

[@Tiura01]

Over here in Brazil, I was 11 when the lockdown begun. I had just lost my father four months before, and gods, i was a wreck. The only things that helped me cope was to walk out, see flowers, talk to my friends and in seconds it was all just- ripped right out of everyone. I was beginning 6th grade, and it damaged my studies greatly, as long as my social skills. I genuinely forgot how to talk to people, hell i still don't know how to strike up a conversation- And its so.. Sad to see the younger kids to ask for this again- I lost all my friends for that damn virus, thankfully none of them passed but we're all just- completely different people. Its disappointing, and honestly its just downhill from here. The teachers can't handle the younger gen Zs like me or the Alphas, who had the pandemic during the most important years of development, and its heartbreaking to see how this is going to even end. I truly hope they mature from this.

[@traderLeah]

you're a really talented writer, please find educational resources that truly speak to you- there's so many available online (but govt. and teachers will never tell you that). also, when you graduate most people naturally grow apart from their old friends. it's not too late for you, there's so much you can accomplish still

[@EnvyDSin]

The world doesn't need another lockdown, let alone become sad & beige in the process...

[@loganmiller7827]

The 2020 lockdowns were really bad for me. It started March 2020, and in November 2019 I had been outed to my conservative parents and while things weren't necessarily bad, they were very strange and awkward and that was exacerbated by not being able to go anywhere without them anymore. My mental health was already not doing well because I felt like people didn’t actually like me or care about me and I felt like my friends hated me, and then all of a sudden I was no longer able to interact with them. Most everyone from school knew I was going to college out of state and my state canceled the rest of the school year out the gate so all of my friends removed me online as soon as that was announced. So my mental health got just about as bad as it ever did. Ending off high school warped my perception of achievement because by the time my graduation actually happened in the fall, nobody cared anymore and were just ready for the whole thing to be done so it didn't feel like anything special had happened. It also has left me with a lot of struggle to find closure in anything. Also, while I did get the vaccines, it caused me to go to a normal fear of needles all the way up to a debilitating severe phobia of them. So yeah 2020 was the worst part of my life and I hope nothing even close happens again

[@Cabin_13-x1l]

I’m so sorry your friends did that to you and I hate what happened to you

[@TheArtistBlob]

This is really disrespectful, too. People (including me) have lost family members because of lockdown, and ya'll want it to happen AGAIN?? There is no hope with these people.

[@Wudandre]

I work in a grocery store and my lockdown was spent being verbally abused by joe public. Not that the verbal abuse has stopped, people still treat key workers like complete trash, but it was 100 times worse during the pandemic. I never want to experiance that again. NEVER!. My mental health couldn't take it.

[@CharlieRawr-z8h]

lockdown prevented me from getting the help i needed. i was placed in a mental hospital in december 2019, and got taken out bc of lockdown in march 2020. i NEEDED to be in there. i NEEDED the help they were providing. 2022 i finally got sent back and got the help i needed 2 years prior. 2 years of online therapy that did nothing. 2 years of developing social anxiety and losing self confidence.2 years of lost education. never EVER again.

[@ShortandSweet54]

I've become more anti-social since lockdown. I am more depressed, and my parents, who are elderly and disabled added another level of stress because they never communicate with each other. I am so tired. I'd rather live alone now.

[@mahogara]

I'm certain majority of the "I miss the lockdown" people are those from the well to do families who didn't really feel the negative impacts of it both during and after. Those who didn't have to worry about losing their jobs, those whose businesses didn't suffer or have to be closed down, those who didn't have to be trapped in a tiny place (and with abusive family members), those who didn't lose a place to call home, those who didn't have to make tough choices about where the little money they had would go, those who came out of lockdown like it was just an extensive vacation, those who didn't (and still) have to scramble to do every jobs they can to make up for the lost incomes, those who didn't have to worry about the raising costs and inflation because they probably never really have to look at the pricetags before, during and after the lockdown, those who didn't have to worry about getting sick more than ever because they can afford the hospital bills, those who didn't have to work hard on and worry about both the mental and physical health because they have easy access to professionals and healhcare workers because of their wealth and I could go on. Yes, we all would love to have time for ourselves to indulge on our hobbies and relax guiltfree but lockdown was not it.

[@Birbzz]

this is said perfectly!!

[@ame57367]

was thinking the same thing. if they need an escape from their current world, they are most likely looking for a vacation, not a pandemic.

[@KattinIsBrocken]

I like my home, but only when I'm not forced into it. I like being introverted and away from people, but not when it's 24/7. The lock down has affected many people's mental health, and affected people's physical health too. We don't need another

[@Silverwolfandblade]

This is one of the many reasons why I deleted TikTok to stay away from the toxicity on that app. Let me just say it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made, I also don’t have any form of social media and I’m glad because it’s made my mental health so much better and not having to deal with the toxicity on apps like TikTok, Reddit, instagram and any other type of social platform out there.

[@x.osiris.x]

I worked retail at a grocery store during lockdown. I had to be there regardless of if everywhere else was locked down because my store was "essential". My ex on the other hand, who was my fiance at the time, worked at a mall and got to be home. That's when I realized just how shit of a partner he was. He expected me to work 3 jobs while he didn't work at all and didn't even clean anything in our apartment and ate all my food while I was working. The physical, financial, and psychological abuse got a lot worse too. I left him in August of 2020 and never looked back.

[@traderLeah]

speaking from experience during that time, nobody talks about how grocery store workers getting coughed at in the literal face are "heroes" too. I didn't even want that label, but I guess us and package handlers keeping our entire communities going are laughably indispensable! maybe because we didn't pay the educational system for a piece of paper

[@Eddysig]

OH MY GOD THE PRIVILEGE IN SAYING 1:35 "no stress" IS INSANE!!!!! Im privileged as h3ll and even i was experiencing my first stress physical effects! And thought i was dying! Now I don even notice my physical stress effects anymore because i don't wanna get MORE STRESSED! Bruh

[@ngarcia103]

The first lockdown messed up my mental health so badly that I'd say I'm still recovering from it to this day. I certainly don't think I could survive another one without having a total mental breakdown.

[@blurrbi]

Lockdown has been the loneliest time of my life, I started high school during that time and hated it all along... I can't image the pain it has been for people who have been more affected than me... Most of those have to be kids it's not possible to want something like that as an adult

[@tensai-a-san]

The lockdown was a horrible time for my family. My grandma died in December due to a stroke and we couldn’t even visit her due to extreme lockdown measurements. I was super behind on schoolwork due to not being able to learn with the digital system and eventually developed bad social anxiety due to not interacting with people, not to mention I didn’t have a single friend during that time. My current best friend decided to become friends with me after realizing I needed friends badly, and honestly, she and my family were my only beacons of hope during that time. I don’t want this to happen again. Those privileged people do not know how horrible the lockdown was for many of us.

[@ectonyx]

at the time, i enjoyed lockdown. i was 15/16, actively excluded by my "friends", and hated the social environment of school. of course i liked not having to go to school, i liked being able to talk to my online friends who actually gave a shit about me 24/7. my life was sleeping until 4, staying up until 6 AM, watching youtube and playing games with my online friends. as a 15 year old, i thought that was the life. but i understand that wasn't what lockdown was like for everyone. even for my own parents. another lockdown would be disastrous. and even in hindsight, lockdown heavily affected my development. it fully changed who i was as a person and how i interacted with the world. like yeah some of that is the usual development between 15 and 21, but christ man as soon as i was allowed out into the world again i was breaking down. i only managed to get my footing within the past year. i wholeheartedly agree with your point towards the end, i miss the TIME. i miss being able to do whatever i want without worrying about assignments or work. not actually being locked down.

[@saikuztseke]

People romanticize lockdown...but it's really just PTSD

[@zavixonhd4347]

lockdown? thats just how I live

[@Blueeeberry11846]

Fr

[@KawaiiCat2]

These people are just rich and had a nice time during the pandemic. Which wasn’t the case at all for some other folks.

[@Venom_Bitezzz]

Please no, I can’t go through that again please Jesus

[@carlastrout5890]

My husband and I have become almost reclusive and we are in our 60's. All since the lockdowns

[@SuPeRsKiTtLeStAlKeR]

Lock down lookes like the thinning of friendships, the loss of places I loved, going crazy only talking to my family, working like a dog as an "essential" employee. Friends losing their families left and right, coworkers in the hospital, desperately wishing I could just go to a restaurant with my friends. Feeling like I was suffocating in my mask because I have sensory caused anxiety attacks. I was so exhausted, working crazy hours, overworked, terrified I would somehow bribg it home to my grandmother who has COPD and heart issues. Lock down was only fun for children, and people who got paid to not go to work. Most people suffered, my best friend started self harming for the first time in years she was so stressed, and depressed about the entire thing. Her family was wiping down FOODS with lysol and clorox. FOOD with dangerous chemicals. She was TERRIFIED for her ill mother, and grandparents. This is genuinely so crazy to me as an "essential" worker. I lost a chunk of my youth, I used to travel twice a year, I missed a childhood friend's funeral because of lockdown protocol. I still regret that, theres nothing i could do about it, but my biggest regret at mearly 30 is not being able to see a friend off, and tell him I missed him. It was planning to go back and see them, but we couldn't because of lockdowns. Knowing without the pandemic I could have seen him, met him again. I can hear his voice, and his laugh, but I never got to hear what that sounded like as an adult. How his laugh changed, what his favorite hobbies were. And I know so many people who went through the same thing, where they couldnt go to yhier own families funerals. I hope we never do that again.

[@weirdbookworm9383]

I couldn’t visit my dying grandma in the hospital bc of the pandemic😍 so aesthetic, miss those times

[@erichcbeldad2579]

Speaking as a 13 year old Im actually gonna cry if theres gonna be another lockdown i loss half of my childhood🎀

[@bvtscave]

same it was HELL

[@veanng]

Speaking as a forty year old, I will cry with you because this is not ok. :(

[@ellscarrotqueen]

speaking from someone who was 13 when the first lockdown happened, i get what u mean. i do not want u or any other people who are just starting teenage years or even important childhood years to loose so many of ur teenage years and have the years go by so fast and not be able to live ur teenage years normally. it wasn't fun at all and i do not wish any of it on anyone, it was horrible and i still haven't recovered. i dont want people to not be able to experience high school in ways where they arent able to socialise properly and are anxious all the time. you should be able to live those years normally like everyone is supposed to :(

[@tivthetat7067]

I just started high school, I don’t want this to happen. My life is finally stabilizing.

[@eveletourneau]

I hated the 2020 Lockdown. I missed 6th grade and had INTENSE social anxiety. I also started a depression and forgot how to take care of myself. I was addicted to my computer because the only way I could socialize was on platforms like Discord. Legit the worst years of my life.

[@graciiannas]

I still have nightmares about 2020-2022 to this day, my family lost everything. Life is just starting to recover finally to some sort of husk of what it used to be

[@alphacote8690]

As someone who started lockdown in grade six and is now in grade 11, I can confirm that losing many of my key early teen years (12-14) had a huge effect on my ability to socialize with others my age. I've never been great with people because of being neurodivergent, but covid made me lose all of the abilities I had. It took a long time for me and my older brother (a year and a half older than me) to begin rebuilding our social life and hanging out with friends outside of school. We didn't know how to ask for a hangout or what that even looked like- and on top of that we were scared of it. We missed out on many things and relationships because of this decreased ability. I had already been bullied most of my life but covid made it significantly worse (like a few mean comments to people telling me repeatedly to kill myself). On top of that, grade 7 and 8 right after and partially during lockdown were the worst years mental health wise for me. I attempted suicide multiple times. There are other factors, but I've talked with a lot of my teachers about how most kids my age are behind two to three years maturity wise because we were in lockdown for such a crucial time in our development- which is part of the reason I was still being bullied in grade ten. Lockdown was horrific- not to mention financially- because of the social effects it had on me and my peers. My brother just turned 18, and I turn 17 in a few months. I can't imagine what lockdown would do to us if it happened right when we were transitioning into adulthood. How are we supposed to manage such a big life change when we are locked at home? Even more so, I have a long-term partner now. Not seeing him for an extended amount of time with devastate my mental health which I am still struggling with. Lockdown is horrible, and it should not be made into something it's not.

[@loveupsidedown]

Nearly all my friends developed drinking problems, lots of local businesses closed down permanently, and someone I know ended up in the hospital after a S* attempt because she couldn't handle the isolation. Lockdown was horrible, wtf.

[@Holli0130]

I was so fortunate during C*vid to not lose my job. I worked in a grocery store so I was never out of work. In that way, I was privilaged during that point, not to mention my living situation is good and I never had to worry about that. The pandemic for me was not as awful as it was for a lot of people. However, I missed out on college. I was finally aclimating to college (i was a junior who transfered from community college). I got one semester in. My second was fucked up because of the pandemic, and my depression was severe, I basically lost my internship because it was so hands on and it turned into something that wasn't fulfiling. I remember the first time I properly went out (masked up, social distancing,) I had a panic attack. (Not sure why I didn't at my job though? Maybe because we were so strict and I knew that working from the inside.) While I didn't have the worst experience, I would NEVER wish for it to happen again. While I can appreciate some of the things to have come out of the pandemic (more WFH opportunities, better on the planet, people becoming more aware of mental health struggles), wishing for another shut down is such a crazy, insensitive take. I had friends have to go back home to live with their narcisistic parents. I had friends lose jobs. I knew people who died. So many elderly people were shut in for FAR longer than us young people which is awful for their mental health, too. Kids were stuck at home, parents were having to keep an eye on their child and risk losing their own jobs. Businesses closed.Idk if this is true, but I SWEAR people started to become more and more divided. This seriously irritates me to no end when people say this shit. Rant done. Thanks for doing a video on this.

[@leilayay]

especially since millions of people died, and even more people's lives were ruined, i don't want to experience such a thing again.

[@olganesterowicz]

Not again! I want to become a rock and metal musician, tour the whole world, book my concerts across all the concert arenas. And this? Duh... politicians...

[@NoOneEverWas]

I feel like they do. When you take a break from other people and your sense of peace SKYROCKETS and your cortisol levels PLUMMET, you realize that sometimes other people are the entire problem and nothing but the problem. Kinda hard to feel bad for people when all they do is stress you out.

[@lilmickey1168]

Absolutely not. I was mentally not okay during the lockdown and I’m finally getting better on top of that I finally found a good job. Doesn’t mean I can pay for food but I am able to pay my bills for the first time

[@KimberRose16]

My dad lost his job for most of the pandemic and I had to damn near drop out of school to keep us fed. We could barely buy enough food for the month because it was so expensive. I definitely don’t want to go through that again

[@Thebiggestvalentinofan]

Aside from mental health things, if the uk were to go into lockdown, it would be so inconvenient for me, like my course in college has a shit ton of practical work because im doing catering, how tf am i supposed to do practical assessments in my house where i wouldnt even have half the ingredients? We literally do stiff for a resturant in the building? Cant do that in a lockdown

[@Thebiggestvalentinofan]

And I can take a guess and say that it would be for any other person with a job that requires you to be there physically, along with courses and stuff?

[@Thebiggestvalentinofan]

Also with how some kids are right now.. with how some parents are, these younger kids are gonna be screwed?

[@isamuhan8254]

I got a stomach issue that made me bedridden for 3 years. The panic of going back is inexplainable because I’m only now getting my life back

[@MonaPrior]

I was 11 when lockdown started. 11. Where I live, we had curfews, rules limiting how far we were allowed to go from home, limits of people living in one household, a literal shutdown of public transport. Not only did I lose the literal MOST IMPORTANT developmental years of my childhood to it.. my country also SUFFERED. I SUFFERED. Yes, sure, I had a lot of time to myself and to focus on my hobbies. But did I? NO! I LAUNCHED INTO DEPRESSION AND ISSUES WITH MY FAMILY BECAUSE WE WERE QUITE LITERALLY AROUND EACH OTHER 24/7 WITH SO LITTLE SPACE AND ALL OF MY FAMILY MEMBERS WHO LIVE IN ANOTHER COUNTRY (where hospitals and medical help are awful) GETTING SICK. I was stressed, anxious and locked in front of a screen all day for school. I barely had friends during that time and definitely developed some mental problems from it. I'm still not over it all. I don't miss lockdown. I miss the childhood that was taken from me.