r/Soulnexus • u/ProfoundRedPanda • 2d ago
Discussion We Haven’t Healed from the COVID Lockdowns; and No One Wants to Talk About It
When I mention 2020, people get that glazed look; they shift uncomfortably in their chair, or they rush to change the subject.
As a society, we’ve pushed it down instead of healing. We all tried to move on, to pretend things went back to how they were; but life is not the same as it was.
I’m writing this now in the hope it finds someone who needs to hear it. We can’t keep suppressing ourselves to move forward. So please, feel what you feel. Let it out.
Start that talk. Face the weight that sits on you, and name it. That’s how we pay it forward; so the next person has the space to heal, too.
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u/universerose98 2d ago
A lot of things have gone down hill since covid. Especially with art, music and creativity. I also see how severely it has affected people socially, especially younger generations. Gen z and younger seem to be struggling the most regarding that. I dont think things will ever be the same.
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u/jewdiful 2d ago
Smaller music festivals are still thriving with creativity. But shrewd mainstream culture is pretty much devoid of any artistic value these days 😢
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u/Inner_Grape 22h ago
It has for sure affected people socially. But there are many wonderful artists out there. Just as many as ever
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u/Firedwindle 2d ago
Most complied to that bs, with some of the young generation as most fanatic, so u reap what u sow.
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u/jmlipper99 2d ago
What are you saying here
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u/Firedwindle 2d ago
Restricting freedom over some virus and then going with those rules, ur a total idiot is what im saying.
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u/Whatever0788 1d ago
Terrible take. Nobody was “restricting freedom.” They were trying to save lives. I think you need to find a different sub to hang out in if you have those views.
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
Both things happened and now that no one has to pretend like they’re saving lives following those rules and other people that truly believe they’re time served saving all those lives is over, people are jokes to one another.
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u/Kingofqueenanne ॐ mod squad ॐ 1d ago
Governments and organizations were invested in curtailing civil liberties and exerting greater control.
People on the ground may have trusted these organizations and institutions, but the organizations and institutions did not have pure and sweet intentions.
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u/Firedwindle 1d ago
TeRRIBle TakE, get in line for ur next "Booster" shot lol. U get a free hamburger, lmao.
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u/cobrarexay 2d ago
Life is not the same as it was and I’m finally coming into acceptance that we didn’t jump to an alternative reality - this is the reality - and one day, it will be a blip in the historical timeline of humanity.
I’m 38 and I think of my grandfather, born in 1918, who lived in so many unprecedented times himself in his early life - a baby at the end of WWI and the Spanish flu; a pre-teen who experienced the Great Depression; health issues keeping him from enlisting in WWII and therefore not receiving the GI benefits that followed; his oldest daughter getting very ill from polio.
All of those things in the first half of his life impacted the second half, and yet, he ultimately survived and learned to thrive in his own way. Poor in money but not poor in spirit. Freely giving of love and surrounded with love in return.
Unprecedented times are part of the human condition - they’re just unpredictable in how they will come, not that they will.
Covid had its awful, bad, and it’s silver lining of good things that happened. In the same way the Depression did for my grandfather. When he was 13 years old his family was able to afford to purchase a farm of their own because of all of the foreclosures and lower real estate prices. Farming wasn’t an easy life, though - some years they had to supplement their income with shifts at a local factory for money to survive.
I’m coming to accept that this is my unprecedented journey- there is good mixed with the bad - and that I’ve had some serious physical and mental health issues as a result. But this isn’t the end of the story - not for me or the generations that follow, in the same way that my grandparents’ generational unpredictability wasn’t the end for them, either.
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u/Average_Pelican 2d ago
and how lucky we are to live it all!!
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
I don’t feel that way. It’s such a joke to find this an acceptable experience. I have higher standards.
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u/Educational_Board888 2d ago
I think as a society it changed people and not for the better. I’ve noticed people have become nastier to each other and there is an increase in self entitlement especially in the UK. Those few months of not being able to socialise with other human beings other than in social media has marked people and changed the way they now communicate with each other and interact with each other in person.
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u/seadogwench 1d ago
It’s so sad! People have become downright cruel. I can’t stand it for my teens because they have seen this as “normal” communication among peers. I try to stay in a positive bubble but it’s hard
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
This is happening where I live too. They swung too hard in restricting people and now it’s swung the other way.
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u/trppychkn 2d ago
I feel like it was kind of like a collective soul loss event .... It's like a scratch in the hard drive of the collective human consciousness where it will probably take decades to finally collectively heal from.
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u/cozycorner 2d ago
It just seems surreal to me. Like, did that even happen or was it a fever dream level of surreal.
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
No, it happened and it’s pathetic how it’s preferred by most to be memoryholed.
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u/cozycorner 1d ago
Yes. It's odd, isn't it. I think that is the reason it seems surreal--everybody around me is acting like everything is normal.
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u/lilyaches 2d ago
yessss i keep saying this!!! we need to heal and admit what happened to us together!!!
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u/Hawkstream 2d ago
I'm a homebody so I just continued as usual. But I guess I'm just another statistic of the male loneliness epidemic which probably requires work and healing to get out of.
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u/LeekRegular6082 2d ago
You don’t need to heal, you need to understand that the “male loneliness epidemic” is a socially engineered concept. Unless you treat women badly and have tons of relational trauma, you don’t need to change anything nor should this ridiculous idea prevent you from socializing.
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
I don’t think you understand how people’s psyches were changed. To be themselves without healing and accepting will not help certain people that were broken by the outside world turning into the twilight zone. They aren’t the same people is what he’s saying.
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u/LeekRegular6082 1d ago
I’m not denying the extreme impact of COVID. Far from it. I’m saying that has nothing to do with the idea of a “male loneliness epidemic”.
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u/Blood_And_Thunder6 2d ago
Some people may have not healed, but by and large the rest of the world got along just fine. Life is fluid and you adapt or you get left behind.
Personally I loved Covid. The traffic to work was non existent, people left me alone and people started appreciating things they never did before.
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u/Riginal_Zin 2d ago
Millions of people died. Many of them without family close by, because of the need to protect each other from spreading a novel virus. Children were orphaned, and parents lost children. Are you really just fine with that?
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u/chippymunky 2d ago
I don't think they meant they loved the actual virus that killed millions.
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u/Riginal_Zin 2d ago
And I didn’t suggest that’s what they said. “By and large the rest of the world got along just fine” indicates that the loss of life is something this person is FINE with. Their own words. Plus the suggestion that people who aren’t just fine should be “left behind” is also concerning. Granted it’s not an uncommon stance. There seem to be a lot of people (mostly men in my experience) who feel exactly like this.
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u/chippymunky 2d ago
Probably just a poor choice of words.
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u/Riginal_Zin 2d ago
Yeah. Probably, which is why I asked if they were really fine. 🤔 I guess I’m just trying to wrap my head around it..
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u/Blood_And_Thunder6 1d ago
Just fine with what? There is no other option. Life goes on. I would argue it’s the first taste of real world hardship 95% of Americans had ever endured.
You can sit around and sulk or mope about the past or you can celebrate those who didn’t make it and enjoy your life.
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u/Current_Leg6197 12h ago
Exactly I learned a lot in 2020 and for me it wasn’t too bad, I hardly knew anyone that passed away or even had Covid but even if I did I’d still be here doing the same thing today so I don’t get what the confusion is from that other commenter I had a good job and friends and still did normal things back then so it wasn’t the worst year ever
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
Where is the outrage for the regular flu being back? I can’t take covid only emotional attachment seriously if people don’t wig out on everything else equally.
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u/Riginal_Zin 1d ago
I don’t know a single human being who is disabled and on the verge of homelessness because of the flu. I am myself, completely disabled by long Covid, and only still housed because I live with my family, who acknowledge my illness and don’t think I’m “faking it.” I’m incredibly lucky in this regard. Many long Covid folks have families who don’t believe them. Some of them have ended up homeless. I’m on multiple long Covid support group forums and in touch with THOUSANDS of other people who are going through the same struggle with long Covid and financial devastation. I’ve had many, many friends that I met through these groups who’ve died. So no.. I don’t have a single fucking iota of energy for this bullshit Whataboutism regarding having feelings about the flu. Not when long COVID is wrecking millions of lives just here in the US, including mine.
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
Have you researched of all things believe it or not, on nicotine as a chemical and what it can do? I came across some information that is remarkable and glad I vape. Trust me, this is all on topic.
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u/Riginal_Zin 1d ago
I’ve read hundreds of research papers on Covid and long Covid. Yes, I know about the ways that nicotine (which oxidizes into niacin, and the body converts into NAD) can be protective. And yet I still have long Covid, and thousands of people on a daily basis develop it. I’m not sure what your point is.
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u/runningvicuna 21h ago
All the methods to help minimize the impact of covid was suppressed and that makes me sad.
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u/Pretend-Job878 2d ago
For me its been about far more than just this farce, although it certainly does highlight what people will act on in-deference to authority. ( Always been a shame, but not much is new there. )
The exposure to all facets of the experience here ( This limited plane ) has been a major theme, from the macro all the way down to the most personal.
Living under such distortion as it is right now in my personal experience, Its a bind that has me atrophied. As for looking for the effects on others. It ranges from the outright diminuitive, to oblivious, others showing their true colors or dedications. ( Both a shame, and a lesson ; when enabled some are just aligned and energized in being malicious, and deceitful. ) Side note, I won't act like I dont have my fair share of personal issues which make this the way it is. Clawing for a reconciliation too late for this lifetime is the feeling. (Trying at the same time to move through it.)
Life is the same in many ways, on the contrary there are some aspects that have been pressed at.
I don't know that there is too much to be had out of 2020 specifically though at this point, "Moved-On" looks different for all types out there, with some "conveniently" just forgetting.
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
People are not “in it together” in this world. I think if there was a time when people were more accommodating, etc. followed the arbitrary arrows on the ground, now that they’re not they may subconsciously be done treating life like they’re sharing space with others and doing whatever they want now. Small brained people need help in basic manners so weird covid rules did set that up for awhile. They were annoying too so now that they’re gone it feels lawless.
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u/splenicartery 1d ago
It’s interesting that you brought this up. I was just thinking of it too, especially as I started watching The Morning Show (Apple TV) and it’s sliding right into the pandemic times and really taking me back.
I got so used to a calmer way of life that I can’t handle being overstimulated as much as I used to.
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u/Piggishcentaur89 1d ago
We haven’t healed from both the 2008 Stock Market Crash and 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. I can tell, because people are in a very sour mood, these days. It does seem like the world is in a crisis, these days.
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u/justsylviacotton 1d ago
If we look at society, most of it is just a reaction to massive unhealed, unprocessed trauma on a very large scale.
For example, I genuinely think that colonialism is the European reaction to their own colonization by Rome, a hurt so big they knew nothing else but to inflict it on others for refusal of looking at it.
When people are disconnected from their land and indigenous identity, like Rome did with the Celts, it creates a bleeding wound that never closes. A hunger for a return to a home that's been completely erased from memory, so they went around the entire world recreating that wound just to catch a glimpse of something that could validate the feeling of loss that superiority was masking. Trauma then becomes a collective identity.
Capitalism, Misogyny, Racism, all of it points to the wound of disconnection, colonialism is just a reflection of that. So is the reaction to Covid, it was always going to be what it was because the reaction to collective trauma in some communities has always been to dissociate and then deflect, hence the rise in anti immigration riots all over the world. Covid is the olive on the trauma cocktail spanning modern human history.
All trauma, is the same trauma, disconnection.
How is disconnection healed? By seeking internal connection and hoping that your small part is enough to ripple out into the world.
The problem comes when people are unaware that their entire identities are built around a trauma response and that trauma response then becomes a weapon for misogyny, colonialism, racism etc, the only reason I'm bringing this up is because Covid has acted as a catalyst for all of those other traumas to be adequately used against all of us. It just broke open the illusion of a world we thought was real, Covid isn't really the problem.
All that to say, learn how to love yourself in a way that goes beyond any and all labels because all of them are currently being triggered.
Covid was just a catalyst for everything that was already there, that's why the world looks as it does, extremely old collective trauma is in the process of being purged, hence the gender wars, the white nationalism, the ethno states, the genocides.
All any of us can really do is attempt to connect to ourselves to the best of our ability 🤍
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u/AlabasterOctopus 1d ago
Yeah I thought we were okayish but I only just now am having to “return to office” and it’s super uncomfortable to be around that many people and converse and not sound like an idiot and look them in the eyes?!
It’s a no from me dawg.
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u/LeekRegular6082 2d ago
People don’t talk about it because it means facing the fact that the government locked us in our houses for 3 years over a virus that was very likely intentionally engineered. Most people would rather not acknowledge what that implies.
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u/typing_away 2d ago
It was so sudden and violent and stressful.
I worked as a cashier and I was just scanning all days. We had a 2$ bonus by hours! 2$ for risking our live when we didn’t knew if it was something lethal. Granted , the medical staff were seeing the worst of it and many lost their life.
I feel constantly drained and life happened too during that time. I lost momentum on thing I wanted and I’m not sure where to go professionally speaking.
People are frustrated . There’s grief in it!
It was from march 2019 to the 5 may 2023 .
While it was more relax toward the end, it went on for almost 5 years. It’s a lot of time!
It could have been shorter! The Trump administration at that time were undermining the effort toward health safety. It didn’t just affect his country but the whole world .
Then the war in Ukraine went up a notch toward the end of the pandemic.
You know when they says that you hyper focus on something in a stressful time and you forget memories? It did happen.
I don’t remember any joy in that time. Only sorrow and pain. I was dancing alone in my bedroom trying to just feel alive.
Dancing saved me though , I wanted to die most days.
The client at the supermarket who where kind to u s the cashiers? They forgot.
The day I received an oil bottle to the head was my last day working there.
I want to heal and during that pandemic , I fell in love with someone who was absent ….that hurt too.
Then we are currently dealing with Trump again and as a Canadian , I despise him for his crimes, his negligences and his fascism.
Since the pandemic I feel like it never stop being "unprecedented history".
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u/Spiritual_Ear2835 1d ago
Let the people who want politics (politrix) to dictate their mental health and their overall well being destroy themselves. These are the folks who don't care about disclosure and due dilligence.
I say focus on what you want for your greater good
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
Yep. I’m learning there are people who are affected by it in different ways and do not appreciate people reverting back to the ideal sense of direction they have and prefer roadblocks and wanting to put up roadblocks for people that liked everything without them.
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u/ashwee14 1d ago
I had nurse friends who saw some shit during Covid. Regardless of how you feel about being home, the isolation, and the political measures taken — hospitals were overrun, and so many nurses are traumatized. Don’t say you were home for “nothing.” I know firsthand that wasn’t true for a time.
That’s not to say there weren’t devastating consequences, particularly for seniors. But please don’t deny the stress the hospital system was under.
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u/Kingofqueenanne ॐ mod squad ॐ 1d ago
I went to the emergency room in May 2020 and it was a ghost town.
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u/ashwee14 21h ago
Anecdotal evidence for your particular town doesn’t apply everywhere. I am not negating your experience so please don’t negate others
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u/khazabian 2d ago
Do you also care about the millions that were killed or permanently disabled by this horrible virus?
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u/Kingofqueenanne ॐ mod squad ॐ 1d ago
It was a man-made pathogen developed in North Carolina and offshored to China. Shouldn't we hold the perpetrators accountable
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u/Artistic_Recipe9297 13h ago
I'm bored with broad humanity. Ship of fools with crazy captains. I was hopeful for real change during covid. Now that it's back to regular, I don't feel traumatized at all. I feel like we missed a chance for real change. Everyone scrabbling for normalcy, when our daily was the real problem., now we're just back to it. Boring.
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u/vibrant_macaroni 1d ago
It's not the lockdowns I have to recover from so much as the adjustment to the permanently increased risk of death for all of us.
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u/Ask369Questions 1d ago
This has no affect on those that have presence of mind and understanding detachment. The ego wants to adopt the victim consciousness. You came down here to experience, did you not? The phoenix rises from the ashes.
Now, on to the illusions:
The lockdowns were to prevent the spreading of lambda bacteriophage as a result of the Betelgeuse star. These are light code transmissions, which is why they locked you down and instructed you to remain 6 ft apart and to wash your hands all the way up to the elbow constantly. At the time of Covert ID 19, many people's DNA upgraded. Nature always wins.
In addition, the establishment used this opportunity to install 5G towers, which have nothing to do with your mobile devices, unlike their advertisements. The towers activate the graphene in the bodies of the victims of the inoculations. You may have noticed a cognitive and behavioral shift as time went by. They have modified your DNA. The towers will recode it and influence your physical frequency, in a nutshell.
Keep on pushing. Things will get worse before they get better, but they will get better. Their time is running out. This is their tantrum. They know they lost. All you have to do is focus on the expansion of consciousness. The physical reality will line right up and be a play thing for you. You got this. This shit is a game.
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u/snocown 1d ago
It was literally a month people. How are you gunna let that one month control your whole lives after the month is over? Seems like youre giving them what they want.
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u/bravesoul_s 1d ago
Don’t over exaggerate then it was just 2 weeks isn’t it? That’s why I wasn’t able to go anywhere for months without the jab like a third class citizen
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u/snocown 1d ago
You seriously consented to that? For me i partitioned myself into moments where nobody fell for the trick and so nobody pushed the mandate.
In our reality its a war between security and freedom. Security to do as you please without any repercussions for your actions versus the freedom to do as you please so long as you face the consequences of your actions.
But there are so much more important wars. You guys are just giving yourselves to belief and what you believe is what you perceive and what you perceive is what toy receive.
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u/Kingofqueenanne ॐ mod squad ॐ 1d ago
It was 2+ years. Not "a month."
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u/snocown 1d ago
That's wild, I couldn't imagine consenting to that as the soul in between mind and body. I just didn't get the jab and lived my life like everyone else. No mandates necessary in a reality where we choose freedom over security. You guys need to be careful what you consent to through your belief because what you believe is what you perceive and what you perceive is what you receive.
What you are shown via 2D media is real, but you dont have to consent to experience via 3D moments. You are the one choosing to partition yourselves into these 3D moments via this 4D construct of time. You are the authors and main characters.
Im just here for my cameos.
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u/Kingofqueenanne ॐ mod squad ॐ 22h ago
Right, and I left the big city and got a house out in the woods. I never got the shot. It still affected commerce, civil liberties, and included the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history. It was more than a couple weeks of weird news.
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u/snocown 16h ago
That's just what you consented to. This is a 4D construct of time that stitches together 3D moments. We aren't in the same moments, but our doors are wide open. You can resonate into your vessel at any time you so choose.
What you are shown via 2D media is real, but it ain't the truth. How it works is you get what you believe because what you believe is what you perceive and what you perceive is what you receive. You perceive the 2D media as the 4D construct of soul in between mind and body and if you consent to what tou perceive through belief then you employ the 4D construct of time to partition yourself into the 3D moments you consented to experiencing leading to said receiving.
Dont be so hard on yourself. You may have wrote yourself into this mess, but you wrote me into to help dig yourself out. Just simply perceive better.
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u/LordNyssa 2d ago
“Healing” isn’t necessary, just stop holding on to the past and past situations.
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u/LeekRegular6082 2d ago
Healing is necessary occasionally, like when someone has a history of relational trauma. The nervous system often requires a certain degree of reprogramming. But the response to COVID was a deliberate removal of our autonomy and should be classified as a systemic issue. That’s not something you “heal” from, that’s something you take measures to guard against.
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u/Tes420 2d ago
Tell that to my best friend who’s mother died in a nursing home and he wasn’t allowed to see her or have any kind of funeral for her
Or tell that to my son, who was becoming an excellent football player in his HS but lost two years because of this fucking Flu hoax
Or how many local businesses went under while giant box stores sucked up all their business and laughed while the government told you that you can’t even take a walk on the beach or open a gym…
Maybe you’re right… Healing isn’t necessary but accountability should be… Next time they pull this shit (which they will) I will be using the many examples to remind people how fucking pathetically subservient they were in 2020
Never again
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u/LordNyssa 2d ago
Continuing to live in the past leads to suffering, yes. That’s exactly my point. Thank you for highlighting that 🙏
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u/Tes420 2d ago
Ignoring the past makes you doomed to repeat it
Downvote me all you want… If you think they won’t pull this shit again you are just burying your head in the sand hoping for the best
See no evil 🙈 🙉🙊
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u/LordNyssa 2d ago
Oh definitely learn from the past, just don’t live in it. And downvotes aren’t coming from me. I don’t do voting systems.
And what shit did you think they pulled? The vaccine was voluntary, yeah sure if you didn’t take it you couldn’t go to the movie theater sure. But we all had a choice. And it was my choice to not take it. Still very happy with it.
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u/Tes420 2d ago
In America I cherish the freedom to go anywhere in public without having to follow tyrannical edicts, I have family who fought and died to protect those freedoms and I will fight for it as well the best ways I can…
Yes, I also chose to not get the vax either but those in power lied to everyone who did take it… Many young ppl in their 20’s “Suddenly Died” and everyone wants to still pretend that Myocarditis is completely normal for healthy young people.. Its disgusting and this whole country should be enraged… But instead we have a society that just wants to pretend it never happened and bury our heads in the sand
Not me… NEVER AGAIN
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u/LordNyssa 2d ago
The people in power always lie. Simple rule of thumb, if they didn’t they wouldn’t be in power. And it’s only going to get worse in the coming times.
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u/Tes420 2d ago
All due respect… What is your point? This is the type of sheepish mentality that drives me nuts
The Government Lies🤷♂️ oh well, guess I’ll just go back to sleep and pretend everything is fine… Meanwhile everything around you turns to shit… Oh well, must be someone elses fault 🤷♂️💀
Lies have zero power if Truth goes viral… The idea that Lies create power only goes to show how gullible most people are and easily manipulated. The power is actually in Truth and Numbers, Not “YoUr TrUtH” but the actual Truth. There are way more people at the bottom and very few at the top… They are terrified of an actual informed society that stands up to them… But that doesn’t mean you stop just because they are notorious liars. It should be the opposite! Expose these frauds and stand for LIBERTY!!
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
You just said to roll over and take it and admitted those doing damage are cruel. So have you changed your stance on being a puppet by evil people or nah?
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u/runningvicuna 1d ago
It makes sure this never happens again. Some of us are not fine being complacent doormats.
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u/Kingofqueenanne ॐ mod squad ॐ 2d ago
I think it was a teaching moment and an accelerant toward human liberation.
Instead of slowly robbing people over a few decades, the richest performed an insane hijack and performed the largest upward transfer of wealth in human history. This has angered people and got people well-versed in politics, economy, and the failings of the “best system in the world” we have been conditioned to love.
We have also given greater scrutiny to the rich and powerful and their horrifyingly demonic inverted ways (ritual abuse, trauma programming, etc.). Before the pandemic this was regarded as a laughable fringe theory. These days, we have people from the entire political spectrum clamoring for a release of Epstein files and more.
A lot of ugliness has come toward and become too visible to ignore. If we didn’t have the pandemic, we would be a little more comfortable but still hypnotized by the criminal cabal.