Lockdown anniversary & h/c

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Tomorrow is the three year anniversary of the first COVID lockdown in Austria, and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it this past week. Three years! Friday March 13th 2020 was the day the upcoming lockdown was announced, we all sat down at the office to talk about it and then everyone went grocery and toilet paper shopping during lunch break (except me because DD had already done that the day before, on a tip from my mom.) And then on Monday the lockdown started. It was weird and it sucked. And then it ended, and then we had more lockdowns, and then there were finally vaccines, and now it's been three years and sometimes everything feels almost "normal" again and sometimes it feels like we're all just pretending for the sake of being able to deal with the constant risk (that is lower now but still there) and anxiety about this and so many other things.

I signed up for hurtcomfortex - my first non-Yuletide exchange in over three years, I'm a bit nervous but mostly excited. I found out that there's an automatic app for any exchange now and I've been having fun browsing it here and already coming up with ideas. I still like the idea of writing a letter though so I still wrote one, even though as of now it's pretty much exactly the same information as in my sign-up, I'm planning to come back and expand on it a bit later.

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[sheron]

oh good god, that's right. it was tomorrow for us

What an anniversary!

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Ever since then I've found it a bit harder to laugh at Friday 13th superstitions, ngl.

[yuuago]

Hope the exchange will go well for you! :D
The app is helpful, but I like it when people write letters too - I usually bookmark the one for my assignment and look at it there, not using the app.

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Thanks! There's a few people I could be assigned to and I'm excited about each option :)
Letters are useful for general or more detailed ramblings (and also for remembering my own prompts for future exchanges.)

[vriddy]

Three year anniversary, huh... I can't really cope with that information, haha. I feel like I'm still re-learning how to human since all of that, and that's taking my focus!

Good luck with the exchange, I hope you have a ton of fun with it :D

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Thanks :)

Yeah. Not sure if I've lost all my sense of time since then, or if it's always been this bad and I just don't remember.

[extempore]

Was ich von dieser Zeit am Anfang mitgenommen habe war, dass es erschreckend ist, wie schnell Menschen auf primitive Angstinstinkte zurückfallen. Da nehme ich mich auch nicht aus davon. Man liest darüber in dystopischen Romanen und sieht es in diversen Weltuntergangsfilmen, aber zu realisieren, dass man selber keinen Deut besser ist... das ist für mich eigentlich die nachhaltigste Erkenntnis aus der Sache.