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Jul 21, 2023, 01:58 PM
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Desert Kitty hates titles
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Member Since: Jul 2008
Location: TARDIS
Posts: 12,629
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Originally Posted by AzulOscuro
Disco, Break, nonightowl thanks for your replies.
The consequences of the virus are tough. Thus, who said there’s no other virus to come. (Crossing fingers)
I’ve learnt this pandemia and its consequences are being bad for both extrovert and introvert people. I thought it wasn’t gonna effect myself because I’m right with only a little of socialisation, I can’t cope with more than a little. But, still I need it.
I still haven’t been able to be in a crowd. I always think better to wait to go to a concert or to do any indoors activity, just to avoid any risk.
Then, I feel as if after such a long time wearing a mask, now it’s not easy for me to be more open to people. The mask became a help, kind of support to be safer being myself.
Too bad, Break that now you all can work from home. I understand this reduces a lot your need to socialise. You must feel quite alone and stuck. I think you must feel the same as I felt when I had to work far from home but I didn’t dare to go outside and socialise. Thanks god that I had contact with my coworkers in the morning. That saved me.
At the rent flat I used to thought, oh my god! I I feel more and more disconnected.
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I agree it had/has consequences for both extroverts and introverts. And it certainly still affects me because a part of my life is gone and will not come back now. I don't need a lot of human or social contact either but I do need some. It's wired into our DNA. We are social creatures.
I haven't been comfortable in big crowds long before COVID. I'm claustrophobic and that's part of it, I think. Even outside I can't stand a crowd that size, and people are getting ruder all the time now. It seems to me that the lockdowns, masks, etc. brought out the worst in some people. And these days I also think of mass shootings, since they usually occur where crowds are gathered like at parties or parades.
Like you I got used to wearing a mask eventually, but now I haven't worn one for months once they lifted that restriction. It's also too hot. But it did have some good points, such as hiding part of my face so my expression can't be read easily. Or I'm not recognized by certain people I want to avoid anyway. Plus it helped my allergies; they weren't so bad.
Working from home isn't an option for everyone. Some people need that face to face contact. Or they don't have that stupid Zoom thing or know how to USE it. Such a digital or tech divide in this country.
As far as this $hit building, it has never had a "neighborly vibe" and I thought that would change with the lockdowns. I couldn't believe this but it went off the charts. Nobody talked to anyone, people kept to themselves even more. And the high turnover accelerated. I don't know where those people all went with this housing crisis. So no sense of community, no stability. Nobody checked on anybody, nobody knows or seemed to care who lives alone and has nobody, etc. People suck.
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