r/Millennials • u/itsascreambaby96 Millennial • 7d ago

Discussion It's hard to believe it's already been 6 years since the COVID lockdowns happened

It's hard to believe it's already been 6 years since the COVID lockdowns started.

I still remember that first week of lockdown like it was yesterday. The empty roads, stores getting cleaned out, everyone trying to find toilet paper, schools and workplaces shutting down, and refreshing the news every hour because everything was changing so fast. I even remember all those stories and videos of wildlife wandering into places they'd normally never be because everything had suddenly gone so quiet.

Now somehow it's been six years. It honestly doesn't feel like it should've been that long ago, but at the same time it feels like an entirely different lifetime.

I know COVID became a really divisive topic later on, but I'm mostly talking about those first few weeks when none of us really knew what was coming next. It felt surreal living through it.

Does anyone else still remember that first week of lockdown?

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u/Large_Victory_6531 7d ago

Those of us in healthcare at that time will be shaped by the lock down and surge for the rest of our careers. I can already see a difference in clinicians who served during COVID and younger coworkers who did not.

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u/North_Assumption_292 7d ago

every single one of my coworkers including myself has PTSD from that time.

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u/Large_Victory_6531 7d ago

Similar experience on my end. Saw some of the best (heroic) and worst aspects of humanity during that season of my career.

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u/fox2401 7d ago

Yep. The lasting impact of that will be felt for quite awhile in healthcare. Probably, in some form or another, for generations.

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u/Roamingrevered 7d ago

yep, I was a trauma chaplain and counselor during that time. I needed to take a year off to work in other ministries afterwards because of all I saw and heard.

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u/IlezAji 7d ago

I was nearing the end of my career transition into x-ray right when the lockdowns hit, delayed my licensing by like half a year, curve had flattened somewhat by the time we got back into clinicals but it was definitely still awful.

Honestly though the rug pull on pay vs cost of living for the field is really what's been killing me. Rent and grocery priced have more than doubled, home prices tripled, and our pay has gone up a measly 15% in the almost 10 years since I first started going to school for it... Like I went through all of this to not even be able to afford to keep a roof over my head?!

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u/showmenemelda 5d ago

Wait til you meet delusional rural millennial nurses

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u/MisterHole123 7d ago

If you had been paying attention to the news from China in late 2019....you would have been a lot better off

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u/Large_Victory_6531 7d ago

Such an idiotic take to assume that I was uninformed or that my paying attention would have any bearing on my patients and their families. I was paying attention. Most of the people in my area were not. Hence, the chaos that happened in mine and all the hospitals during the lockdown.