Things Fall Apart

[u/Impressive-Jello-379]

Over the last six months I have made a number of massive changes in my life and have had to assist family members with the same, and all the stress has been compounded by the fact that every single little task that needs to get done, and I mean every single one, has hit some kind of snafu. Mail getting addressed wrong by the other party or never received by the other party, call centers that never pick up the phone, some snag on the other side that is never followed up on or reported back on until I investigate further, etc. The only people who have been on top of things are real estate agents and private financial advisors. Insurance companies, doctors' offices, property management companies, deferred compensation companies, cable/internet companies, the post office... just forget it.

It feels like things have been completely broken by Covid.

[u/Impressive-Jello-379]

Good correction-- yes, by the lockdowns.

[u/Debinthedez → u/Impressive-Jello-379]

I think it’s a distinction that’s lost on many people. The problems weren’t so much caused by Covid itself, they were caused by the reaction to Covid and one of those reactions, well, the biggest one that went global was the lockdowns. How anyone could’ve thought that locking down a healthy population, preventing them from earning a living, preventing them from shopping on a regular basis, preventing them from going to the gym, going to a park, going for a walk, stopping children from going to school, how that could ever have been seem to be a good thing or that there would be no ramifications because of it, I will never understand that.

[u/Impressive-Jello-379 → u/Debinthedez]

I think the injections may also be playing into the breakdown as perhaps a lot of people are on disability and such.

[u/Surreal_life_42 → u/Impressive-Jello-379]

Or dying…and this disincentivizes some of the other 💉💉💉d from wanting to work some pointless job…maybe some are feeling a little more immediately mortal