Human Nature Since Covid

[curlyfries81]

I don't know about you but I find people, on the whole, less kind, more rude and impatient and generally less helpful now than before Covid, and possibly more aggressive and selfish.

Other people I know have remarked on this too.

What are you thoughts?

[Old_Geezer]

Not necessarily because of Covid. The state of the nation has been deteriorating for years and as time goes by more and more are fed up with it.

[naomi24]

I've not noticed any difference.

[bhg481]

There seems to me to be a corolation between population density, whether people or traffic, and rudeness/dishonesty. I was raised in a small market town where everybody knew everybody and, if someone saw you misbehaving, your mum would soon get to know about it and chastise you. As population density increases in a given area you become more anonymous so you mum doesn't get to know about your rudeness. Compare driving in a city with driving on quieter roads - city is full of loonies, on quiet roads other drivers are more inclined to let you out of a junction etc.

[Cloverjo]

Sorry, I don't agree. It feels like Covid was a bad dream from which we've all emerged and everything is pretty much the same as it was before. 
 

Apologies to people who lost loved ones during the pandemic. 

[curlyfries81]

I personally think people became disconnected from the world, from others, but they didn't really have a choice. When you've been isolated from others for so long I think you become a bit institutionalised. I know people who were very sociable before and always like to get out and now they don't want to anymore.

[Canary42]

Most people seem the same as ever to me, some good, some not so.  I think you're suffering from goodolddays syndrome.

[curlyfries81]

I'm not suffering anything of the sort. I find people all over generally less friendly, kind, etc now.  People at work, people in the supermarket, people everywhere. Several people I know say the same. 

[Hazlinny]

Have not noticed any difference in the people around here - life goes on.  

[naomi24]

I haven't noticed anyone becoming more rude or less kind but the observations at 13.44 I recognise.

 

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[puzzled54]

I think people have changed since covid, they seem to have become less sociable and less inclined to go out than before. 

[pastafreak]

I have mixed feelings about this. Looking at the news over the past couple of years I'd probably agree. Only the negative seems to be reported...and I wonder if it's really that bad for ordinary people on a day to day basis. 

I've lost a few good neighbours who've moved so I feel far more isolated. As an oldie that's difficult. Sometimes I go to the shops so I can chat with someone other than the cat.

Covid probably caused us to develop different habits and to accept not going out. Cost of living has added to our disconnection and also to the frustration and anger some might feel.

[Khandro]

We went on Monday for our annual check-up to our ENT specialist & she had recently been to England & said how kind & friendly she found everyone to be.

[Atheist]

Perhaps a side effect of having a symptomless dose of covid is to make you more aware of what people are really like.

[naomi24]

How, atheist?  I don't understand that.

[Atheist]

Naomi; I wasn't being wholly serious.

[naomi24]

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[JinnyJoan]

I wholly agree with you curly - things changed so much with that Covid - I actually say that friends who have been my friends one friendship that is over 30 years old and another 60 years - we were friends as kids - it is unremarkable that there is a separation.  

I felt so bad about the 60 year friendship some months ago that there was no connection either by phone or going out - I actually went up to the house to query this and said had I done something - both husband and wife definitely said "NO".  

So I am trying to learn to accept this sadness.

[New Judge]

Much of the reaction to the pandemic suffered by many people was a result of the government of the day frightening the life out of them unnecessarily.

Unforunately much of it stuck.

[davebro3]

Covid? That's history.

[Barmaid]

I'm not sure. We received great kindness from neighbours and friends when Mr BM had to go into hospital 2x after lockdown. I felt very supported and actually quite tearful at the little things that were done for me (on my own in a big old house) which were just so sweet.

NYE during lockdown was probably one of the best ever. We stayed on our property, our neighbours stayed on theirs. We stood outside in the frost and the dark and we chatted and laughed and got absolutely trashed. They are very good friends now.