It’s kind of disappointing that almost 4 years after the start of the COVID era, the only lasting cultural changes are the destigmatization of making content on OnlyFans and the mainstreaming of anti-vaccine perspectives.
@carnage4life and remote working as a normal option
@carnage4life It’s changed attitudes to working from home. Wherever I’ve worked, nobody below management level was ever trusted to before, now we all have hybrid working as standard.
@carnage4life I wonder how that'll affect the next pandemic (whenever that appears). We've got a lot of people running around who will never listen to public health authorities again.

@carnage4life I kind of disagree with that. Among subway riders, 10 years ago there was one Asian woman in a mask, now it's a majority of folks of all backgrounds.

I'm getting a flu shot for the first time this year, and plan to do so every year.

The broad assumption that folks working from home are goofing off is dead, and I'm at least pissed off at the current state of return-to-office, where you drag your ass into a noisy open-plan office to sit on a fucking zoom call from your desk...

@carnage4life I long for a reality where we had stuck with more outdoor seating for restaurants over parking
@carnage4life in the UK it now more socially acceptable to acknowledge the existence of strangers in the street. Not the lockdown 1 “run to the opposite pavement & then nod” phase, nor the “pleased to see the drunk fighting outside” after lockdown 1, but for two men in an inner city to not treat eye contact a challenge is an interesting change.