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I feel like, all things considered, I fared decently well. Every employee in my company last year got furloughed for a couple of weeks or had to take a pay reduction. Not ideal, but better than losing a job. Myself and most of my close family/friends avoided COVID (so far, knock on wood). In-laws got it as well as my sister-in-law, but they all recovered fairly well.

Many things have felt normal; others, definitely not so much. I like to think I've gotten used to this masking wearing, social distancing type of lifestyle, but there are many times where the oddity of it all hits me. I think it's been a tough year for mental health, but in ways many of us have never really experienced.

This is also the one-year anniversary of my best friend's 30th birthday party. I remember it solely because it was the last gathering I went to where relative strangers and myself were not socially distanced and not wearing masks.

Not seeing my kids and grandchildren was really hard, I hated that part, my moms getting up there in age and I didn't feel comfortable going to see her and she understood.

We let some people go at work in early April, mostly  trimming the fat  so to speak. I haven't done hardly any side work and thats where I make my fun money/savings ect.  I'm just tired of it all, it pisses me off to go to a store wearing a mask and seeing how many people don't wear them,  yes they suck but life with covid is worse. Do your part and let's try to end this 

I wear a mask and practice social distancing.  But there's been so much misinformation about Covid it's hard to gauge just how serious it is--misinformation both under estimating and overestimating the threat.  I wonder how much worse, if any, it is than SARS was eight years ago.  You'd think in the information age it would be easier to get accurate and truthful information.  It is not.

@NUance buddy, less than 800 people have died from SARS since 2002. COVID is less sever but more contagious, and didn't "died out" like SARS did.

Sure Covid can be extremely deadly.  I've known people who died from it.  But I've known of even more people who died of other causes but were labeled Covid deaths because they tested positive.  We didn't do that in the past for various strains of flu--attributing deaths as flu deaths if they happened to have the flu when they died.  Why are we doing that now for Covid?  Anyone who thinks the death rates for Covid aren't somewhat inflated isn't looking at the whole picture.