WP Daily Prompt: How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic? On my train ride home, sometimes at the store and at my workplace I see people wearing masks. They're not wearing the silly masks, or the cloth …
WP Daily Prompt: How have you adapted to the changes brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic?
Artist: Jakub Schikaneder
On my train ride home, sometimes at the store and at my workplace I see people wearing masks.
They're not wearing the silly masks, or the cloth masks that were fashionable during the height of the Pandemic. They're wearing the no fooling around N95 masks now- probably because there isn't a shortage of them and after the last couple of 'normal' flu seasons my friends who wore them weren't getting sick like the years before.
Plus they're getting Flu shots along with their Covid shots.
On top of that Hand Sanitzers are still a thing and I a bottle in my backpack and a smaller one in my jacket pocket.
But when I thought about what changes I 'adopted' into my my life post-covid it occured to me that there was nothing new in my routine because the life I had before Covid-19 is gone.
The places I used to go to before the Shut Down may have come back to some degree, but there is something missing. It's like those galleries or theatres, the shopping malls are pale copies of what was there before.
I work in an area of Seattle that used to buzz when concerts and a sports events came into town. Now people sort of shuffle in and zip out. I know that people want to blame the plunge in going to public events on the Homeless people- but do you know what? That's just not true. We had Homeless people living on the streets before Covid, but there were SO MANY people out and about that it was easy to ignore them.
Nowadays people don't like to sit next to each other on the train. They get annyoned when groups of people talk too loud in small spaces. People want to have the landscape to themselves now. They had a taste of that Lone Wolf lifestyle brought on by Covid-19 and it tasted good.
Now they want more of it.
I miss the world I lived in before. I miss the drama of it all, the colors, the smells. I miss rushing to events and having to resort to charades and lip reading to have conversations because there are so many people and they are all making so much noise.
I didn't adopt anything from those years that my world was shut down.
I'm to busy mourning it's loss and I am in a place where I don't want anything to replace it.
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