Corpsey
bandz ahoy
Lots of interesting thoughts in here.
Everything I say about it has to come with the disclaimer that I was largely unaffected by the virus, didn't know anyone who died, etc. I guess that's why "quarantine" is the thing I'm talking about, rather than COVID, which is still around of course.
It's funny people say they miss quarantine, because I kind of miss it, too. Is that just the human capacity for nostalgia/rose-tinted spectacles? Probably if I really thought about it I'd realise I don't miss it, it was mostly terrible, isolating, boring...
But it was DIFFERENT. It was a sort of peak through the curtain of how life could be outside of the relentless rolling forward of consumerism, etc. (At least, it felt like that, even though Amazon et al did very well out of it).
And for some people it was an opportunity to spend time with people they'd never have had otherwise. I spent seven months at home with my parents, and I didn't resent it because I knew nobody was doing anything, and I felt grateful to have spent so much time with them. (Although this probably precipitated my mental breakdown later on lol).
Also, though, I agree that it was a collective trauma and nobody wants to think about it now. Made me think of luka's thread title "We are willing on the catastrophe"—I actually think most people just want to forget about the catastrophe and let alone consider what the next catastrophe will be like.
Everything I say about it has to come with the disclaimer that I was largely unaffected by the virus, didn't know anyone who died, etc. I guess that's why "quarantine" is the thing I'm talking about, rather than COVID, which is still around of course.
It's funny people say they miss quarantine, because I kind of miss it, too. Is that just the human capacity for nostalgia/rose-tinted spectacles? Probably if I really thought about it I'd realise I don't miss it, it was mostly terrible, isolating, boring...
But it was DIFFERENT. It was a sort of peak through the curtain of how life could be outside of the relentless rolling forward of consumerism, etc. (At least, it felt like that, even though Amazon et al did very well out of it).
And for some people it was an opportunity to spend time with people they'd never have had otherwise. I spent seven months at home with my parents, and I didn't resent it because I knew nobody was doing anything, and I felt grateful to have spent so much time with them. (Although this probably precipitated my mental breakdown later on lol).
Also, though, I agree that it was a collective trauma and nobody wants to think about it now. Made me think of luka's thread title "We are willing on the catastrophe"—I actually think most people just want to forget about the catastrophe and let alone consider what the next catastrophe will be like.
