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  • I kept going to work at a so-called "essential" job until they laid me off, and spent the rest of it with my amazing spouse. It turns out we are one of those couples who genuinely enjoy being together 24/7 while the world outside goes to shit.

    • Same hat. Now on the rare occasion my husband has to go somewhere for his job, I'm like "Damn the apartment's so empty."

  • I mostly worked from home, and this allowed me to spend more time and bond more closely with my two young boys, and I also improved my cooking skills.

    For me, the pandemic was a catalyst to improve my life.

    • What do you think is the most challenging thing you cooked during that time?

      • I didn't go with really difficult recipes, so I can't really say. I know I do enjoy it more than before so that's a win.

  • covid quarantine was not really different from my non covid day to day. I was already wfh and I do not go to crowded things. masking was the only thing that changed for me.

  • I got up to Covid, and then Long Covid. I could do very little, except sleep, lie in bed listening to audio books, and doing jigsaws. It was basically that for about a year. Yay. I'm nostalgic for the time off work, and learning about how to recover, and manage my health. I eventually got to a place where I was eating super healthy, doing loads of yoga and light weight training, and my body was getting really strong and feeling good, even though I couldn't do much with it because of the fatigue. I wish I had the time now to be as healthy as I'd like to be, but I'm back full time working, as well as caring for my mum. I'd like to get that back, being able to focus on my health.

  • Worked mainly. Me and my partner both worked alternative shifts at a supermarket. We also parented a toddler who turned two just as COVID hit.

    So yeah. Great fun. Constant risk of bringing home COVID, no time to see each other and a toddler who was suddenly told she wasn't even allowed to go to a park or spend time with people outside our own bubble.

  • Animal crossing, gardening, zoom happy hours, ukulele. I work from home anyway so it was life as usual in my career, I just picked up way more hobbies.

  • I was feeling challengey and became the world record older for the most sites having signed up for. A self-experiment that turned into a victory. Not quite the same as my grandfather's "I'm going to walk from Ushuaia to Cape Agulhas and back", but still.

    • How did you manage to do that? Did you just register for a site every time you came across one or did you actively search them out? Did you use a disposable email address?

  • One thing I miss is the flood of people producing games. A lot of them were lewd Ren'py games but I feel like itch.io had a lot of gems around that time.

    I'm trying to think of developers that started during COVID and really took after that but I'm drawing a blank.

  • I was considered an essential worker, along with a few colleagues.

    There were three phases: going into it, being in it and coming out of it. During the first and and third of those there was new legislation and instructions coming in pretty much every day that needed to be interpreted and implemented and we had to do all of that. It was exhausting. And then everyone else came back from furlough and told us all about the DIY they had done and the books they had read and so on.

    In the middle though: well, I work across a cluster of heritage and wildlife sites. There was a bare minimum of checks and maintenance that we were expected to do - pretty much alone - one at each site. Once that was done we went out and did patrols. They are some beautiful places and there were a few days when I completed the entire circuit of the site and saw absolutely no-one. Just me and the wildlife. That was excellent.

    • And then everyone else came back from furlough and told us all about the DIY they had done and the books they had read and so on.

      By DIY do you mean things like the plexiglass shields they put up for cashiers?

      • Re-decorated their living rooms, fitted new kitchens, built patios and bbqs and so on.

        We were the ones fitting the plexiglass etc.

  • Dude I'm visibly disabled. My support system (except for my wife) vanished the day covid started. I'm not going to go from organization to organization begging to see if they need a token cripple, especially when it's hard enough to get adults here to wash their hands after using the bathroom, let alone wear a mask when they're sick and you're live-in-care for someone with cancer.

    What do you imagine my covid lockdown was like?

  • I kept working from home like I did before and after and kept wishing I had more time to do all the cool shit some other folks got to do.

  • That's weird, I can barely remember how things went down. My cell and laptop went kapult at the start at the pandemic and I didn't have a streaming stick or smart tv yet.

    I ended up borrowing a relative's phone to keep track of the news, do online courses, watch videos and chat.

  • Work, and watch some clients die (especially old, rude and stubborn ones).

    iT iS noThinG, THe GoVernMent mAdE tHis uP.

  • I started playing League of Legends

    Now I'm level 450

    Oops

  • Worked from home, luckily I have a large terrace and live in a very green and walkable neighborhood. There's a botanical garden across the street that shut down for the public, but since I go there for a jog nearly every morning, the guards let me in regardless. Had the whole thing to myself.

    Watched a ton of Netflix, perfected my bread baking skills, and grew a big beard.

    • That's cool of the guards to do that. What was your favorite show to watch during the quarantine?

      • Taskmaster! Not on Netflix though, but definitely my favorite show. UK show where local comedians have to perform a series of tasks over a couple weeks and are then rated on stage based on their performance. Exceptionally silly and entertaining. There are a bunch of international adaptions as well now, I've binged all through UK, Norway, Sweden, Croatia, Portugal, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Unfortunately the US version is crap and got cancelled after one season. Some others I didn't really get into, like Denmark or Finland, but I might give it another try later.

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