Do you think people have changed since COVID?

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It’s been jarring to see how people have changed since the pandemic. Many seem unaware of the changes themselves or refuse to acknowledge it…. Like a global gaslighting. Those who do notice say its because of the psychological effects of lockdowns, long term trauma from millions of people dying from a global pandemic, the effects of long covid, the jabs, 5g, spiritually related, etc.

What do you think are the causes? Have you noticed the people around you change- or even yourself?

Here are some of the traits people have noticed. Some of these are symptoms that have been studied/ speculated to be effects of long covid:

  • Reduced empathy or emotional range
  • Personality flattening- more blunt, less patient, less socially intuitive
  • Increased irritability and mood swings
  • Memory and attention issues
  • Reduced fear response
  • Feeling detached or robotic (anhedonia, derealization)
  • Reduced sensory richness, everything feels duller
  • Loss of creative drive
  • Impaired cognition/ lower iq
  • Slower processing speed and reaction time
  • Trouble finding words
  • Anxiety, depression
  • Fatigue that worsens after mental effort
  • Social withdrawal
  • Apathy

Whenever going out to supermarkets, the city, or even just talking with relatives and friends, people seem more zombielike in general, lot of blanking out since then. it’s been surreal.

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The plandemic definitely ruined the workforce. People call off a lot more are late and when they are at work they do as little as possible.

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Yeah, there’s been a bunch of terms trending after 2020 like “Gen Z stare,” “dissociation”, “doomscrolling”, “brain rot” and “bed rotting”. People think its burnout because of the sudden lack or productivity at work or in students/ teens who seem out of it in class. A lot of people say its the smartphones and social media but those existed long before 2020. Somethings changed with peoples brains.

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