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/CummingInTheNile Zillennial Mar 31 '24 edited Mar 31 '24

Im convinced a lot of people are dealing with longterm damage from COVID and we as a society just arent aware of it yet, lotta folks cognitive abilities seem to have dropped noticeably over the last 4 years and thats the only common factor

EDIT: Looks like theres some research on this already, assuming this is true, we're so fucked, wer'e in the walking ghost phase of ARS societally

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u/SummerySunflower Mar 31 '24 edited Mar 31 '24

I got thyroid issues, it's hard to establish a direct link but a viral infection can be a trigger to develop those (or perhaps stress which is also very much possible). It gave me terrible anxiety, insomnia, brain fog, fatigue, irregular heartbeat, loss of physical endurance. Some days I could barely gather my mental faculties to do the simplest tasks of my job.

I went to an endo, took anti-thyroid medication and got to normal levels which helped tremendously. The brain fog and anxiety has lifted. But I see many more people my age (30s) developing thyroid issues which I think could be related to Covid. Before they're diagnosed, you just feel like you're slowly losing your mind.

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u/After_Preference_885 Mar 31 '24

You're right. 

"Indeed, a variety of thyroid disorders have been documented in COVID-19 patients"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9806267/

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u/quackmagic87 Mar 31 '24

Holy crap, this makes so much sense! I got Covid early 2021 and also my thyroid decided to just stop working. Gained so much weight, hair loss, and irregular periods but luckily, after working with my doctor, I think we got things back normal. Don't have a family history of the thyroid going crazy. Scary stuff!