2021 had GME meme stonks and was the start of NFTs. Also COVID vax started coming out.
If you worked in healthcare, there was a pretty clear delineation. We got vaccines and people stopped fucking dying so much.
I opened 2021 to one of our chronic dialysis patients getting admitted for Covid, so severely short of breath they needed to go to the critical care stepdown unit, and I thought "this is it " By the time I was able to arrive at the hospital to run their dialysis, this person was already off oxygen and up walking around their room.
Come to find out, they had been vaccinated. I’m told that was one of the first people in the State of Massachusetts who got Covid after being vaccinated, and the difference in severity was so dramatic I’ll never forget it.
That and movie theaters reopening are the only reasons I remember 2021. It was just a lot less scary even though I was still working like crazy.
It still blows my mind that so many people thought (and in many cases still do) that the vaccine had some nefarious purpose.
I remember 2021 mainly for arguing with morons online about it.
A guy I worked with refused to wear the mask and get the vaccine. He called me diaperface. He got the virus and afterwards was incontinent. I am a nice guy so I never once pointed out that he was the one wearing the diaper now, but I was so so tempted.
Hopefully they’re a bit more humble these days then. I won’t lie, it makes me happy to know some people like that got what was coming to them. A bitter prick I might be but after watching my wife teeter on the brink of collapse working on the wards I have no sympathy for anyone who’s chosen to believe anything but the overwhelming scientific consensus.
If you need to believe that EVERYTHING the government does is wrong then you’re as bad as people who believe that everything they do is good. Unfortunately the pandemic seemed to create swathes of people like that who reduce an argument all the way down to absurdity.
I think in your position I wouldn’t be able to help myself, maybe I wouldn’t directly make fun of his incontinence but I’d probably ask if he remembers when he used to call me diaperface or something like that, just a sly reminder to him what a cunt he was.
Jan 6th
Vaccines!
Party all summer. Oh wait, variants.
I personally got my PhD and moved states to start at my new job. So it was a busy year for me.
Why are you expecting me to remember something that much weed ago?
Seriously… That’s over 100 grams of THC ago…
Well, that’s like every year for me. My memory sucks.
You had long COVID before it was trendy
Yes, it literally was a continuation of 2020. That’s how years work
Pandemic was the best time of my life. Everyone I know(except for one guy) hated it. Me and my buddy enjoyed the shit out of it.
- Didn’t have to commute.
- Saved money on home cooking.
- Meetings started on time and you didn’t have to walk to and from them.
- If I needed to take delivery of something, no problem, my home is my office.
- Got a 5 minute break? Great, filled the washing machine up and got some laundry done.
- All communication was in email or on chats, making everything said super easy to track.
- Didn’t have to meet people. By far the best thing for me.
I lost my job, got paid redundancy, and got double unemployment payments. It was dope.
Oh man we saved SO much money not eating out, even still doing curbside pickup once in a while we saved thousands
Same I loved it, but that was because it let me skip the last year and a half of highschool essentially.
Y’all remember the early days if covid when we were buying toilet paper and accepting imminent death?
I most vividly remember the Italian experience where some guys sister died of covid at home, and they were just like “wrap the body with a sheet and leave it somewhere safe, we’ll come get it in a week if youre still alive then.”
I remember the early reports of covid surviving for 5 days on surfaces, and thats when I was like “Whelp, we’re fucked.”
Yeah, Italy had a fun time in February and March of 2020.
Yeps. My kids were home and my wife was a nurse going into one of the hardest hit areas of US each day. I ended up working from home the first few months until enough stuff broke that I had to come in. I lost about one person I knew per month for the first four months.
Fortunately I had accepted imminent death decades ago so while everyone around me was having existential breakdowns I could wander around, hand out hot water bottles, tea, and fuzzy blankets, and see how many times in a row it can be Taco Tuesday before they start to question their sanity.
deleted by creator
Wait, bidets cure COVID?
If you fill them with bleach and drink from them
How nice for you.
“it’s called a motor race, ok? We went car racing.”
No Michael. This is so not right!
I personally loved the lockdowns
As a parent, our experiences are diametrical opposites haha
There was that ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal, and Squid Game.
both of those things feel like they are from 2016 or 2018
I remember diamond handing some stocks and missing out on some serious gains.
Best year of my life, got over my ex of 20 years leaving me, GME happened, met my now fiancé, got paid for not doing any work for a few months then quit my job.
My main memories of 2021 are Sealab exploding.
Damn Pod 6!
I remember catching Covid 3 times. Hooray for being “essential” in a place full of assholes.
