There's nothing to do. It's the most boring era in history.
There's nothing to do. It's the most boring era in history.
For me personally, the lockdowns have done me good in the long run. I have had a horrible year but it's given me time and space for reflection and I have confronted a lot of things that I wouldn't have had the time (or courage?) to think about usually. It brought several problems to the surface. The fact that the world has been turned upside down sort of made me realise that I don't have to do what everyone expects me to do because if I do something unexpected, it's pretty insignificant compared to everything else going on.
When this year is over, I will look back on it with nostalgia.
As long as we managed to stay physically healthy, no Covid, no flu. Mentally I feel fine. Financially I was better of, I managed to keep up with my payments and save a bit of money.
Now that it's almost over the real craziness will start.
I've been less bored and more frustrated. I have to go into work every day as my building needs to be open. I have maybe a handful of people come through my reception each day. They all complain that they hate being stuck at home.
On the other hand, I risk the train journey twice a day to sit in front of a computer screen all day. There is only so much of it that I can handle. Particularly as I've been sitting so long it's now causing me substantial back pain. My dodgy feet are also even more dodgy as they simply aren't getting the regular exercise that they used to when we were busy and the muscles are getting weaker. I struggle to remind myself to get up regularly which doesn't help. If I was at home, I could be doing hobbies, exercise, I could be getting up regularly to make fresh meals etc. I wouldn't be spending so much time in front of a computer screen.
I'm greatful that I still have a job. I don't exactly have a wide range of skills to see me easily fall into something else. But it's getting difficult to keep going. I have major issues with those people who blatantly disregard the guidelines. The government are useless, but it's these numpties who have made it dangerous for those of us who have to get to and from work everyday. My team covers three buildings and while we've thus far been ok, no thanks to our managers, there have now been cases in all of our buildings. Sorry, rant over...
Most changes to my life have been better less pressure ,bad points are been trying to get daughter into school for over a year finally got a place and it is closed ,and find news difficult as everyone in power and most of press are stupid and totally miss the whole point [my children could all of made better decisions]
It's certainly keeping me very busy. 
"I'M BORED!!"
My manager at work was very recently confronted with this complaint. He replied "Only boring people get bored".
I've also heard this lament quite a lot over the past year or so.
We have a sizeable part of the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips (Google, Wiki, Kindle/Amazon, etc.).
Furthermore, we have (even during lockdown) by far the greatest number and widest range of sources of entertainment and distraction that there have ever been in human history (e.g. books, TV/films, music, games, Internet, online shopping, online learning, numerous ways of communicating with familiar or new people, etc.). Not to mention the "inner resources" (creativity, imagination, meditation, etc.) we have.
Personally, I find it strange that anyone can be "bored".
I'm a teacher here in Canada and I've seen the impact of the virus on students and staff at our high school. The students have had to move to full-time learning from home multiple times and the transition back-and-forth has been emotionally and academically difficult for them. It has also been difficult for families to accommodate full-time work, sometimes unemployment for one or both parents, plus balancing younger children suddenly having to learn from home and having to arrange childcare for them.
In many cases, mothers have essentially had no choice and had to stop working outside the home in order to care for multiple children as they learned from home. This has had financial impacts on families and also caused the women to potentially lose the seniority and hard-earned status they had achieved at work.
Thankfully the Canadian federal government has had a moderately robust COVID-19 financial support system and a strong social safety net to support our families. That said, the financial supports have slowly decreased and the government is at a bit of a crossroads - it is going to have to either restore the financial supports or potentially face backlash at the polls in a possible springtime election here. It's in a bit of a no-win situation because money does not grow on trees.
I hope everyone on here is staying safe and holding up alight.
Elizabeth
I had my first jab yesterday, at my local medical centre. It was the Pfister one. It was in my arm and then i had to sit and wait in a socially distanced waiting room for 15 minutes to see if i was ok, before I was allowed to go home.
An hour after I got home I received a text message from the medical centre inviting me to make contact them to make an appointment for a Covid jab. I rang them back, thinking it was for the second jab, no, it was a *** up.
This morning my arm still hurts, but no other problems.
I'm having a day out tomorrow.
I've been invited to my local medical centre for my covid jab. I am in the vulnerable with underlying health problem group.
I intend to ask which vaccine is being given.
Just praying I don't get any nasty side effects.
