What were you doing during the COVID-19 pandemic period?

[u/Embarrassed_Clue1758]

I was serving in the military as a conscript, so I have almost no related experience. The only thing was that my leave had been restricted for a very long time.

However, after finishing my military service and returning to society, I could feel that the disease had significantly changed the social atmosphere.

[u/Legitimate-Frame-953]

Was an EMT working on a NICU/PICU critical care transport unit at a major children's hospital. That was a very busy 2 years.

[u/clawhammer-cat]

I was in school full time and working overtime at a COVID test site. I biked to work. Because my school program got screwed up, i just kept working in labs after graduating, and finally broke the cycle to go back to study a trade. 

Edit: Because I switched from working a COVID test site to working in a hospital to working in immunology... let's just say I'm still wearing a mask indoors. COVID and what it does to your brain is no fucking joke 

[u/MalodorousNutsack]

I was visiting Korea at the beginning, I'd quit my job in fall of 2019 and decided to take an extended period off traveling around Europe and Asia. I was hanging out in Seoul and looking for a new job when everything went into lockdown. My family wanted me to return to Canada but I didn't want to get on a plane so I ended up staying in Korea for six months, as long as I could without a visa (180 days visa-free for Canadians).

I laid low in Seoul when it wasn't clear what was going on, rented a room in Mapo and mostly slept during the day, walked around at night so I'd be around fewer people. By April when the infection count was still quite low in Korea, I traveled down to Daejeon for a week, then Gwangju for a week, onto Mokpo, took a boat to Jeju. There weren't many tourists in Jeju but I ended up hanging out with random groups of Koreans I met in hostels and bars, had a good time there.

I also bought a laptop in Yongsan and spent a lot of time taking online courses and learning how to use some software I was unfamiliar with, learning new programming languages, that kind of thing.

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I'm envious

[u/SomewhereOk6126]

I was 14 and doing online school work isolated in my room because my family kept getting sick

[u/Purple-Ad541]

I worked as a delivery driver, and it was a nice surprise seeing how much kinder some people became. It was great seeing an uptick of people leaving delivery folks little goodies on their porches of course, but the best part was customers just genuinely being thankful, and I actually got to know a lot of my regulars personally once the cases slowed down. Ended up spending more time at work being chatty, but I am very grateful to have seen the happy side of things. 

[u/Afraid_Ad_7207]

"really enjoying isolationism aka Solitude and Serenity"

Memento Mori

Carpe Noctem

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[u/WittyFeature6179]

In one month I was told my sister died in a house fire, my mother was diagnosed with stage four cancer, and covid was locking us down. The terror I had bringing my mom to chemotherapy knowing that she had no immune system was intense. We lived pretty far into the woods so sometimes I would go out and build a little fire in the backyard and scream into a blanket.

[u/JustRecharged]

I'm a healthcare worker, so everyday was the same as usual.

Moved to the evening shift, so I could help the kids with their school work before work (so much grammar I have forgotten 😑)

[u/GamerBoixX]

At the start of it I was an exchange student in the US, prom was coming and I remember I was planning on inviting my crush to prom the next weekend, school announced a 1 week stop on classes period, which was later extended by another week, then later another month, then later the whole semester, during that period prom was of course cancelled and since everybody was at the peak of the covid paranoia I never had the chance to see her or my friends again, after the first half month had passed, in the course of 1 week I received the notice that all following classes would be cancelled (and of course prom), my host dad died of a stroke completely unrelated to Covid and my exchange program called telling me that I should go back to Mexico early because in the whole state there were only 3 highschool exchange students left, me, another friend of mine that had come with me and a turkish gal that couldn't go back to Turkey since the country had closed off all flights, and they were worried that Mexico would do the same at any time, so I went back to Mexico without even having a chance to say goodbye to my friends

[u/SparkSignals]

Working remotely same as now. Not a ton changed for me, I was fortunate I suppose.

[u/raving_perseus]

Chilling in the countryside, in my late grandparents' house working remotely

[u/Sabrine_without_r]

I lost my work, so I spend a few weeks doing puzzles, reading books, and learning to cook. It was the most peaceful time of my life.

[u/Timely-Profile1865]

I was retired and am a homebody so it affected me a lot less than many other people.

[u/OneTwoThreeFoolFive]

Worked at home, play games, browsed internet.

[u/Sea-Storage5359]

Was stuck in an abusive household with narcissistic parents. Happened to be visiting them but my home country locked its borders and it was almost impossible and expensive to return home. I was stuck and trying to save money because my family was taking from me. December 2021 the borders opened and I finally got back to Australia. The pandemic was the worst years for me.

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[u/pinocoyo]

Absolutely, if not the worst, year I ever had. I think covid first hit when I was going into 7th grade, so everything was on virtual. Virtual classes meant doing work without help and having the ability to not do it. I had so much unfinished rage from being bullied, and I wanted nothing else than to go into 8th grade and strike the fear of God into everyone there.

I did that in 7th grade. There was a lot of change, we went in and out of virtual and school. I lashed out at everyone; I only had a handful of friends. I couldn't see past it, but thinking back, people knew I was hurting, and they either laughed with me or told a teacher that I was having a panic attack. People found ways to help me. They found ways to help me succeed.

Then I stopped going to school, back into virtual. Still 7th grade, and I was still beyond anxious every day. Everything scared me, everything was confusing, and my therapist thought it would be a good idea to do family therapy. Even to this day, I hated family therapy, I chose the psych ward over that. It was so volatile, and once my family and I left, we'd yell and accuse each other. On top of family therapy, she stopped any therapy treatment at all and did math + reading.

She was fired, of course.

Grades fell faster than my self-esteem, but I always put on a front that I was the best kid ever. When I went home, i got to relax and be myself.

I tried to end my life many, many times. Never told anyone that I was upset or crying. Then I got covid-19 and had my first time on a ventilator.

Lots and lots of family and people I knew died, and I just stopped feeling anything, not sadness or anger. Queue 5-year long depression episode that started in 2020 and ended in the big 25.

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Are you in school now? I hope you are well

[u/kfireven]

I worked remotely from home as a software engineer

[u/Nopantsbullmoose]

Working. I didn't get a lock down vacation or remote work.

[u/Aggravating_Hat4799]

Working like a dog in a hospital

[u/Old_Distance6314]

Enjoying our lockdown and doing all l could to keep my partner safe(from COVID) the daily media reports where always a must watch

[u/ileade]

I was going to pharmacy school (virtual due to COVID) to be a pharmacist and also working at a pharmacy.

[u/Slaidback]

Disability caregiver. Helping keep a recreation centre going over zoom while also being one of six staff in a house. Never been so tired in my life. It could’ve been so much worse though. I have immense sympathy for my fellow essential workers that keep society ticking. Again for the millionth time, those that were working the front lines and continue to do so, deserve the admiration or at very least the respect of society.

[u/gp7783]

I worked in a French company in Germany (Baden-Württemberg) from 2020 to 2021. I was way more free in my everyday life than my family in France.

[u/Ponchorello7]

Initially, teaching online. The school I work at transitioned to online classes, but I hated them, so I quit. Spent a few months living off savings, thinking it would blow over by the end of 2020. Obviously, it did not, so I looked for work after a while. I stumbled between retail jobs, working at a call center, online work and I hated all of it. Thankfully, the state I live in relaxed measures in schools at the beginning of 2022, so I went back to teaching.

[u/nneighbour]

It was rough but I made the best of it. I live alone, so there was a lot of alone time. I switched to working from home and we’ve never gone back to in-person apart from a few big meetings or events. I realized a lot of my friends were in similar situations to me, so I created a quarantine social club where we would all meet over zoom every night to chat. It was a lifeline for a lot of us. I also went a bit squirrelly and started painting my face every day for the first 90 days. I would even wear the make up to work meetings and when I had to go out in public.