Everything from nightlife to the quality of products is now different .
We’re living in a post-pandemic world (which, yes, of course, COVID is still very much a thing), and while life seems to have gone back to normal, I think most of us will agree that things haven’t gone back 100% to the way they were before 2020.
Recently, Reddit userScreamyVwanted to know about the things the pandemic changed and not for the better when theyasked: “What did the pandemic ruin more than we realize?”
1.“A lot of smaller businesses completely died because of it.”
— lycos94
" The twelvemonth before , I debate open up a little pizza pie eatery and venue bar . I did a lot of work sell pizzas and lay on show as case in other locale . I asked around : Should I open my pizza position or bribe a home ? Everyone pronounce to bribe a base , so my wife and I did , but I was a little disappointed having not start my pizza pie eatery . Then COVID hit . Ended up being a windfall . So lucky . The rest of my life would have been destroy . "
— doctorctrl
2.“I work in the nightlife industry in Montreal, and what used to be a very vibrant nightlife seven days a week is now packed bars and clubs on weekends only. And by weekends I mean Friday/Saturday.”
— vinnybawbaw
" Yes , my area is a ghost town at night , even on the weekends . compare to before a mountain of places either close at like 8 p.m. or are only open on the weekend . "
— ivxxbb
3.“My sense of time. I’m at a point now where I’ll be thinking of something from a couple of months ago, and then I’ll be corrected that it actually happened nearly three years ago.”
— pizza_whore_26
" Yeah , 2020 and 2021 are large blobs to me . I blend them up forever . Also , the whole , ' This did n’t pass off six months ago ; it was 2022 ' is sooo true . "
— Arashirk
4.“Cheap food. The supply chain either still hasn’t stabilized, or it has, and we are being taken advantage of.”
— JurassicParkTrekWars
" I was working in grocery analytics at the sentence , and yes , we ’re being taken advantage of . Retail prices go up many multiples of the sweeping cost increase in 2020/21 , and the movement has continue each year . “—BurtRebus
5.“The pandemic has ruined many social relationships and human connection more than we realize.”
— GonzalezrMY20k4
" I ’m still assay to get friendships back to the same regular cling - out amount . Texts and online games just are nt the same . "
— LegacyLemur
6.“The quality of products seems to be decreasing, shrinkflation is ever increasing, and still prices seem to be rising faster than I have ever seen in my 40-plus years of doing the adult thing.”
— wookie_the_pimp
" They found out through the pretext of ' shortages and unprecedented metre ' they could price ding , lower the timber , and people will still pay up so they never lowered prices after . We will never see 2018 prices ever again . Except on television and other shit you do n’t need . "
— 5x4j7h3
7.“Availability. I’m a night owl and used to grocery shop at 2 a.m. Just me and my headphones. It was glorious.”
— Tsunamiis
" I live in New York , and even here entrepot and eating place ( take - out place ) conclude ludicrously early compared to before the pandemic . I ’m talking 9 or 10 premier on a Saturday . In New York . It used to be that I could go out with friends and come back to my neighborhood after midnight and snaffle something to feed on the agency back home . Now , I ’m lucky if two place are even open , and I often just have to desire I ’ve arrest something in the fridge . It ’s not a catastrophe , but it ’s plaguey . "
— NYArtFan1
8.“My social battery. I am so drained all the time that I never want to do anything outside of work, even when it’s something I previously enjoyed. I’d rather stay home.”
— witerawy
I ’ll go most work day without talking . It gives you a variety of brain murk that ’s hard to excite off after oeuvre .
— Crown_Writes
9.“Movies. So many new movies released in theaters these days flop when they probably would have done better had they been released before COVID times. People just wait for them to be on streaming these days.”
— Coolers78
" flick dramaturgy are all on life support , flashback to 2019 when we had multiple billion - dollar movies in one summertime . "
— hnelsontracey
10.“Basically, every form of the performing arts is in trouble. I was a touring comic before the pandemic. It’s not very well known, but I made a living. I have been able to eke out a bit of an existence, but the possibilities are really dwindling. So many of my colleagues have already stopped. It’s not for lack of talent or popularity. The operating environment of the industry has fundamentally changed. I have always prided myself on my resilience. I built an incredibly unlikely career by slogging it out. But even for me, it’s now impossibly difficult.”
— stranger_noises
" I could be wrong , but I retrieve people have shifted their entertainment sources . It used to be if I desire entertainment , I had TV and moving picture and such , and now there are ten billion choices at my fingertip , and the amount of amusement money is still the same , so it gets spread out out lean . "
— StopWatchingThisShow
11.“Healthcare. The industry and the people in it who saw a lot of preventable dying and sickness are broken. It’s not the same as it was before, and it probably won’t ever be.”
— StefanTheNurse
" This is what hardly ever gets bring up . I know several in the field who have leave , let in me , because the burnout was so strong . It does n’t help that most citizenry now only focalize on or talk about how they ' omit the lockdown ' and how dainty it was to be home , less traffic , etc . People in frontline Book of Job , especially healthcare , were in it every twenty-four hours , hoping before the vaccinum that they would n’t get ill and pop off or their family because of them . All while watching the reality of it play out before them , being responsible for for helping those afflicted .
There was a lack of help with staffing , and some people got no pay raises , all while prices of everything skyrocketed . I hope I never have to go back . "
— cooljeopardyson
12.“The cost of repairing and replacing vehicles. People don’t realize even four years later, parts have gone up, and there are still supply chain shortages at times. I’ve seen people have their trucks in the shop for up to 4–6 weeks just waiting on a part.”
— tmps1993
" This is especially straight of collision repair . It can take months now . "
— lespaulstrat2
13.“Organic dating.”
— Nutsnboldt
" Dating period . I ’ve go on mayhap half a 12 dates in the last three years , mostly by my own choice . Like , come up someone who can carry a conversation , has all their teeth , is actually single , and not a wild confederacy theorist should n’t be this gruelling , and it ’s not deserving the genial effort anymore . "
— Womp_ratt
14.“Faith in science and medicine for a lot of people.”
— Didntlikedefaultname
" It ’s more faith in fact in general . If the truth upsets them , they determine to go with an alternative . Reasoning with many the great unwashed now is like trying to have a public debate with a Roomba . "
— nocolon
15.“Businesses' cleanliness and hours. Go to some local box store, walk around, and see just how trashy it looks now. Clothes on the floor, because they don’t have enough staff to pick up the mess. Half empty shelves. It’s like they’re in a perpetual state of closing down.”
— Alcorailen
" I kick the bucket to a section store a few hebdomad ago for the first prison term in a prospicient time and could not conceive how awful it calculate . I candidly thought I had walk into an abandoned , looted , and vandalise storage . It seemed like only one or two citizenry were exploit in the entire station , too , and they looked exhausted . "
— SterlingLevel
16.“I feel like the stuff I do for money has come to feel so f’ing meaningless. Everything’s so big a business needs 25 other businesses to survive. We’ve created millions of problems to sell made-up solutions. I don’t think I’m alone in this?”
— WesternUnusual2713
" You ’re not alone . The human beings certainly feels more corporatized than before . Everything you do , everywhere you go is some prominent corporation trying to sell you one or more things , a mass of which you do n’t really need but will feel like you need ( or at least should have ) by the time they ’re done with you . “—matrix_man
17.“Tipping culture expanded, tip expectations went up, and never came back down.”
— Abigfanofporn
" I was at an airdrome recently and there was a quick snatch station with self - checkout , and no proletarian there . I was still prompted to tip — who am I tipping and why ? ! "
— _ jjkase
18.And lastly, “A lot of people’s basic manners.”
— LucyVialli
" The ' social contract bridge . ' For instance just being decorous to one another . That ’s been on decline , but post - pandemic it has not recovered . Things such as prize public spaces or others is gone for the most part . It feel like no one care anymore and selfishness ruler . "
— CabbageStockExchange
You can read the original thread onReddit.
Note : Some responses have been edit out for length and/or clearness .
