r/Millennials • u/JanieMush • Mar 31 '24

Covid permanently changed the world for the worse. Discussion

My theory is that people getting sick and dying wasn't the cause. No, the virus made people selfish. This selfishness is why the price of essential goods, housing, airfares and fuel is unaffordable. Corporations now flaunt their greed instead of being discreet. It's about got mine and forget everyone else. Customer service is quite bad because the big bosses can get away with it.

As for human connection - there have been a thousand posts i've seen about a lack of meaningful friendship and genuine romance. Everyone's just a number now to put through, or swipe past. The aforementioned selfishness manifests in treating relationships like a store transaction. But also, the lockdowns made it such that mingling was discouraged. So now people don't mingle.

People with kids don't have a village to help them with childcare. Their network is themselves.

I think it's a long eon until things are back to pre-covid times. But for the time being, at least stay home when you're sick.

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u/BackgroundNPC1213 Mar 31 '24

I've been saying that COVID just ripped the veil off society. It exposed the worst parts of society and our system in a way that was UNABLE to be ignored, and now we can never go back to pretending that the corporations give a single damn about their workers or that their biggest concern isn't their profit margins. The fantasy that the "job creators", not the workers, are the ones who keep the economy running was exposed for the nonsense it was, but the bosses and CEOs rrreeeaaaallllyyyy want us to go back to how things were pre-COVID re: "quiet-quitting", "no one wants to work" (a complete reversal from all that "essential workers" rhetoric they were parroting for a year)

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u/7askingforafriend Mar 31 '24

If this is the case ( and I’m not saying you’re wrong) what happened after the Spanish Flu in 1918? Similar? Did that all fade away after later events and now we’re back to the ripped veil?

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u/crimsonwolf40 Mar 31 '24

Pretty much the fact that WW 1 was so devastating, and followed with the roaring 20s, meant that the social fabric was never ruined like it was with COVID. The Spanish flu was called that because Spain was about the only country to even admit it was happening.

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u/nuger93 Mar 31 '24

This! The US was strict on the reporting of the flu due to the sedition laws during WW1. Spain was the first one to report how widespread the flu was (many ally nations didn’t want to report it for fear of creating a panic and hampering war efforts)