I end up reconnecting with lots of friends from school and old times. Staying home without anything to do gives you time to stalk people on social media 😂
Just the one here, mainly because he turned into a QTard WEFerino and then started throwing all manner of insults at me when I attempted to pull him out of the mire.
I can’t be alone in finally deciding to cut a couple of people out of my life thanks to the utter bullshit anti-vax drivel they posted on social media. As you get older it’s hard enough staying in touch with all the people you *really* like/love/respect.
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On the other hand I gained three mates who gamed and chatted all lockdown, vastly kept my sanity. Now we continue to game and chill out.
I’ve gained a few from playing warzone with locals
So I’m at -2 friends then?
I guess 2 new enemies are better than nothing.
I think I lost a friend because she said she knew [of] somebody who died from dementia, and had covid put on her death certificate. I responded by giving her a lot of information about all the ways an incorrect death certificate can be corrected, and asking her which was the coroner that she said had been complained to. I think she didn’t like being called out on it. I must say of all the silly things people said in the pandemic, that was the oddest. I saw it roughtly ten times from different people. Why would anyone invent something like that?
Eh? I didn’t have 4 friends at the start of the pandemic!
I think not being able to see people for so long has had as much of an impact as opposing views on restrictions, vaccines etc. I know i’ve lost friendships that I probably would’ve maintained in normal circumstances as we weren’t able to spend any time together.
Can’t lose anyone if you didn’t have anyone in the first place
The only friend I lost during the pandemic so far was my boyfriend after it showed off his true colours, so it actually did me a favour.
Are those friends the potatoes who think Covid is a hoax and that the Vaccine gives you 5G?
Can’t loose friends if you don’t have any.
*taps head*
I lost my close mates.
I couldn’t bear the fact that I was reaching out for support from them pre-pandemic as I was dealing with some very serious personal things and they were rather dismissive, then a few months later the pandemic happened and they suddenly wanted to zoom, play video games and text. I just thought nah, you wasn’t there when I needed you guys, why should I be there now it is convenient for you?
Probably did me a favour in all honesty
I lost mine because I finally saw how little they gave a fuck about me. I live alone, single, in a tiny 1 bed council flat with hellish neighbours and they’re all in houses with kids and a partner. I tried so hard to get a Zoom catch up and spent hours making a fun quiz for us all and only 2 showed up, with 1 of them being half an hour late.
I posted in the group chat that I was out walking and it was a nice day and I got alot of comments about how I was only walking because of lockdown and wouldn’t go for walks any other time.
No fucking shit. I’m sorry you guys all have huge gardens and houses to relax in while I’m going insane in a tiny dump of a flat by myself every day. Spare me the grief for taking a 15 minute walk outside.
Left the group chat and never spoke to them since. Childhood friends.
Given that it seems to be a young person phenomena according to the article and given that young people are more isolated than ever and experiencing mental health issues as a result, I can’t see how this can have a positive outcome.
Am I the only person who read that headline and didn’t know if those friends had died or just stopped hanging out together?
Can’t lose any friends if you didn’t have any in the first place.
With this logic I’m on minus three. But no seriously down to 0.
Same here. 2019 – three close friends.
2021 – Where the fuck is everyone? Getting one word replies to my messages, had one close friend of years not check in with me during/after my hospital stay.
2022 – Try to arrange a catch up with another close friend of years. Yep, seems like I have no friends any more.
It’s taken a real toll on me. I just found that I was making more effort in my friendships than anyone else, and people would prclaim to be my close friends, but not even bother with me. This year I didn’t even get one Christmas card or a Whatsapp or anything, from anyone. I was honestly struggling to carry on, just because of my lack of friends. I’ve made a lot of new acquaintainces now, but I find it so hard to be optimistic or trusting anymore, like what’s the point of building friendships if people just throw you aside in a few years?
A lot of people re-evaluated their lives and relationships. I bet a lot of people did not really lose friends as much as they let relationships come to a natural end. Friends are important but some people are friends for a season, others are friends for a reason. The pandemic meant people could not meet up in person and some friendships will have fizzled out naturally. This is not always a bad thing, especially as you will still always have memories of the good times.
Jokes on you, I didn’t have any friends to begin with.
My friends can recognise the ludicrousness of the past 2 years. We shake our heads with disappointment. I don’t really want to be friends with people who pedal antivax, or vax crap for that matter.
My family had a gathering in one of their houses in march 2021 and we weren’t invited.
We were weird because my pregnant wife and I were following the rules and only met one other person outdoors at a time. We were excited to have people in our garden in a couple of months.
Byeeee Felicia!
I cut a friend off, too. Nothing Covid related, she was just a bitch.
Where have they all gone?
Nowhere. That’s the tragedy.
i just don’t have patience for a certain twat anymore
Why are the comments on these articles always deflecting from the fact that actively pursuing a policy of social isolation might have, yknow, isolated people and fucked them up??
“Oh *I* CHOSE to have less friends actually!” That’s not the damn point. This isn’t meant to be good news.
Pretty sure it was just the one.
He was a douchebagging simp who evicted me for a girl he’d known for 5 minutes. Guy had no respect or loyalty.
But I nuked all my social media so people can’t contact me (if I haven’t spoken to them in 6 months then I see no reason I’d need to speak to them). So I guess outside of a handful of friends, I’ll be off the radar for a long time.
I can well believe that. The pandemic has had such a terrible effect on people’s mental health… It has also brought out the worst in some. There was a murder-suicide down my road of a nice older couple that was related directly to covid restrictions driving the husband, apparently, to said actions. Can’t even make this crap up anymore.
Jokes on you, I had no friends before the pandemic either!
Friendship with EU has ended, now TPP is my best friend
Brexit helped me weed the morons from my friends too. Suddenly started spouting all this drivel they’d read online about the EU, bye…
My estranged father was a nasty racist ignorant anti vaxxer, covid killed him last May. Can’t say I was upset. One less cunt in the world.
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I lost most of my mine when It turned out they all still acted like children and expected me to hate someone just because they hated someone.
Wow, can you imagine having four friends? I’d love to have four friends.
I lost exactly 4, eerily accurate, more or less entirely my fault, I was being a total monstrous dickhead due to alcoholism (and how that combines with SSRIs), mental illness and depression but you know therapy made me realise, I’ll be alright, everything will be fine everyone has to do what’s best for them and it’s best for them I’m not in their life anymore, albeit I’ve basically 180’d and am a delight now, so fair enough I’ll just crack on in my corner on my own.
Didn’t lose friends from losing contact. They just all died of Covid…..
Id agree with that. After two passed away as well unrelated to COVID I actually now find myself at 29 with literally not a single friend. Which kind of sucks but not a lot you can do about it.
I never had 4 to start with, for the past 20+ years I have had 1. The ones I used to have turned out to be users and backstabbers. The minute I started saying things like, no, sorry I can’t lend you that cash that you need to “feed your kids” , that really you are just going to use to go to the pubs instead. I dumped them when they started that kind of shit, and really can’t be bothered anymore. I’m too old to put up with that kind of thing now. My 1 really good friend, who I don’t see for months at a time, I knows she’s there if I need her for anything, also reverse applies to her, she knows she can call me at 4am (which she has) if she needs to. We always have each others backs , and I have my family, that suits me just fine.
I lost any respect to a friend of roughly 16 years. Who is a pharmacist. And had been vaccinating people up and down the country since covid vaccines began. As a requirement of her job, and also because she travelled last year, she is doubly jabbed and had her booster. She might even have had her fourth jab (i mean, she has access to covid vaccines literally on a daily basis). And yet she vomits the stupidest anti vaxx, FB regurgitated idiocy you can think of. For me, when you’ve graduated from uni, with a Masters in Pharmacy, and your literal fucking job is to administer the drugs people take to keep on living, the standard is a bit higher. Not just your scientific worldview, your discipline, the way you conduct yourself, but also your moral integrity. It is the kind of standard I’d *demand* of myself had I been in such a position. Now, I know she is in it just for the money, she has had trouble on a number of occasions (giving the wrong meds to someone, and the subsequent fallout and all that), and at times told me things that were kind of disturbing. For her to be anti vaxx though (and this is someone I taught microbiology to back when I was moonlighting as a tutor/mentor during my uni days), after all that she knows and deals with, to base her entire argument not on facts and figures that can be discussed, dissected etc but on some vague “don’t trust the man, don’t belive the system” BS is an insult to everything as a scientist I stand for. You can have your point of view on a number of things, have different political opinion etc but as a scientist you develop one thing and that is to be absolutely ruthless and clean when it comes to facts pertaining to the field you study. You understand the scientific method, how we reach consensus, you **live** the peer-reviewed world of academia (and trust me, it’s not always so clean and shiny), but you absolutely worship **facts**. You don’t bring half-baked idiotic conspiracy bullshit to a dialogue on something as clearcut as covid and the vaccines and the general public health. Besides, given you’re *already* triple vaccinated, it doesn’t cost you jack to even maybe perhaps pay just lip service to the general consensus that the more people get vaccinated the better for everyone. This thing has killed millions across the world and a lot of those deaths could’ve been prevented. To be in that position, be one of the first to benefit from the vaccine breakthrough, yet shit on it (privately) at the first chance you get speaks of the kind of morally bankrupt mind I’d rather cut off from my life. It sometimes felt like a stain to even *talk* to her.
I lost a few. After finishing uni in the pandemic I’ve lost around 10 people who I called friends. Clearly they didn’t give a shit. Not a loss tho they can do one
In London lost of friends that just left the UK as a whole due to covid or brexit.
Most of my crowd was international so, I lost like 70% I have a very small friend circle now but I’m also moving out of the UK this year so guess I’m joining them?
From my experience more people just became comfortably isolated. The friends I had that are married or in relationships stopped associating with anyone that wasn’t their partner (and kids) and a few of my single friends became worryingly reclusive. I think lockdown and WFH might be the main cause of this. A lot of my friends have suffered from panic attacks and anxiety for the first time in their lives since going back to work. Thankfully most of them are getting better now and more sociable but some I’ve sadly lost for good.
Urgh, suffering with covid right now, for the second time, 6 months after first getting it. Hadn’t even got my taste and smell back properly yet.
Or you can change this headline to… Brits have found the true meaning of friendship with their friends list reduced
The kind of people who unquestioningly swallow whatever the corporate media tells them are a liability to both themselves and (sadly) others. Better to surround yourself with those who value the truth over self-soothing or convenience.
I suppose I was luckier than most in that regard then, I don’t really have many people I’d call close friends in real life but plenty of good folks online. Lockdown didn’t really change anything for us there
I lost a few of mine. Didn’t see them from the beginning to the end of the second lockdown. We’d planned to meet but then they rearranged so that a different friend could attend the meet up, and I couldn’t make it on this date. I said fine, just give me a text when you’re passing through the city centre cause I’ll pop out from my work for 5-10 minutes to say since I haven’t seen you for for a year and a bit by this point. They couldn’t be arsed to do that. Still upsetting to this day, especially since they never acknowledged and I haven’t been messaged since.. doesn’t help that I still have them on Steam and I’ve never been invited to play games that they know I have/enjoy..
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I end up reconnecting with lots of friends from school and old times. Staying home without anything to do gives you time to stalk people on social media 😂
Just the one here, mainly because he turned into a QTard WEFerino and then started throwing all manner of insults at me when I attempted to pull him out of the mire.
I can’t be alone in finally deciding to cut a couple of people out of my life thanks to the utter bullshit anti-vax drivel they posted on social media. As you get older it’s hard enough staying in touch with all the people you *really* like/love/respect.
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On the other hand I gained three mates who gamed and chatted all lockdown, vastly kept my sanity. Now we continue to game and chill out.
I’ve gained a few from playing warzone with locals
So I’m at -2 friends then?
I guess 2 new enemies are better than nothing.
I think I lost a friend because she said she knew [of] somebody who died from dementia, and had covid put on her death certificate. I responded by giving her a lot of information about all the ways an incorrect death certificate can be corrected, and asking her which was the coroner that she said had been complained to. I think she didn’t like being called out on it. I must say of all the silly things people said in the pandemic, that was the oddest. I saw it roughtly ten times from different people. Why would anyone invent something like that?
Eh? I didn’t have 4 friends at the start of the pandemic!
I think not being able to see people for so long has had as much of an impact as opposing views on restrictions, vaccines etc. I know i’ve lost friendships that I probably would’ve maintained in normal circumstances as we weren’t able to spend any time together.
Can’t lose anyone if you didn’t have anyone in the first place
The only friend I lost during the pandemic so far was my boyfriend after it showed off his true colours, so it actually did me a favour.
Are those friends the potatoes who think Covid is a hoax and that the Vaccine gives you 5G?
Can’t loose friends if you don’t have any.
*taps head*
I lost my close mates.
I couldn’t bear the fact that I was reaching out for support from them pre-pandemic as I was dealing with some very serious personal things and they were rather dismissive, then a few months later the pandemic happened and they suddenly wanted to zoom, play video games and text. I just thought nah, you wasn’t there when I needed you guys, why should I be there now it is convenient for you?
Probably did me a favour in all honesty
I lost mine because I finally saw how little they gave a fuck about me. I live alone, single, in a tiny 1 bed council flat with hellish neighbours and they’re all in houses with kids and a partner. I tried so hard to get a Zoom catch up and spent hours making a fun quiz for us all and only 2 showed up, with 1 of them being half an hour late.
I posted in the group chat that I was out walking and it was a nice day and I got alot of comments about how I was only walking because of lockdown and wouldn’t go for walks any other time.
No fucking shit. I’m sorry you guys all have huge gardens and houses to relax in while I’m going insane in a tiny dump of a flat by myself every day. Spare me the grief for taking a 15 minute walk outside.
Left the group chat and never spoke to them since. Childhood friends.
Given that it seems to be a young person phenomena according to the article and given that young people are more isolated than ever and experiencing mental health issues as a result, I can’t see how this can have a positive outcome.
Am I the only person who read that headline and didn’t know if those friends had died or just stopped hanging out together?
Can’t lose any friends if you didn’t have any in the first place.
With this logic I’m on minus three. But no seriously down to 0.
Same here. 2019 – three close friends.
2021 – Where the fuck is everyone? Getting one word replies to my messages, had one close friend of years not check in with me during/after my hospital stay.
2022 – Try to arrange a catch up with another close friend of years. Yep, seems like I have no friends any more.
It’s taken a real toll on me. I just found that I was making more effort in my friendships than anyone else, and people would prclaim to be my close friends, but not even bother with me. This year I didn’t even get one Christmas card or a Whatsapp or anything, from anyone. I was honestly struggling to carry on, just because of my lack of friends. I’ve made a lot of new acquaintainces now, but I find it so hard to be optimistic or trusting anymore, like what’s the point of building friendships if people just throw you aside in a few years?
A lot of people re-evaluated their lives and relationships. I bet a lot of people did not really lose friends as much as they let relationships come to a natural end. Friends are important but some people are friends for a season, others are friends for a reason. The pandemic meant people could not meet up in person and some friendships will have fizzled out naturally. This is not always a bad thing, especially as you will still always have memories of the good times.
Jokes on you, I didn’t have any friends to begin with.
My friends can recognise the ludicrousness of the past 2 years. We shake our heads with disappointment. I don’t really want to be friends with people who pedal antivax, or vax crap for that matter.
My family had a gathering in one of their houses in march 2021 and we weren’t invited.
We were weird because my pregnant wife and I were following the rules and only met one other person outdoors at a time. We were excited to have people in our garden in a couple of months.
Byeeee Felicia!
I cut a friend off, too. Nothing Covid related, she was just a bitch.
Where have they all gone?
Nowhere. That’s the tragedy.
i just don’t have patience for a certain twat anymore
Why are the comments on these articles always deflecting from the fact that actively pursuing a policy of social isolation might have, yknow, isolated people and fucked them up??
“Oh *I* CHOSE to have less friends actually!” That’s not the damn point. This isn’t meant to be good news.
Pretty sure it was just the one.
He was a douchebagging simp who evicted me for a girl he’d known for 5 minutes. Guy had no respect or loyalty.
But I nuked all my social media so people can’t contact me (if I haven’t spoken to them in 6 months then I see no reason I’d need to speak to them). So I guess outside of a handful of friends, I’ll be off the radar for a long time.
I can well believe that. The pandemic has had such a terrible effect on people’s mental health… It has also brought out the worst in some. There was a murder-suicide down my road of a nice older couple that was related directly to covid restrictions driving the husband, apparently, to said actions. Can’t even make this crap up anymore.
Jokes on you, I had no friends before the pandemic either!
Friendship with EU has ended, now TPP is my best friend
Brexit helped me weed the morons from my friends too. Suddenly started spouting all this drivel they’d read online about the EU, bye…
My estranged father was a nasty racist ignorant anti vaxxer, covid killed him last May. Can’t say I was upset. One less cunt in the world.
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I lost most of my mine when It turned out they all still acted like children and expected me to hate someone just because they hated someone.
Wow, can you imagine having four friends? I’d love to have four friends.
I lost exactly 4, eerily accurate, more or less entirely my fault, I was being a total monstrous dickhead due to alcoholism (and how that combines with SSRIs), mental illness and depression but you know therapy made me realise, I’ll be alright, everything will be fine everyone has to do what’s best for them and it’s best for them I’m not in their life anymore, albeit I’ve basically 180’d and am a delight now, so fair enough I’ll just crack on in my corner on my own.
Didn’t lose friends from losing contact. They just all died of Covid…..
Id agree with that. After two passed away as well unrelated to COVID I actually now find myself at 29 with literally not a single friend. Which kind of sucks but not a lot you can do about it.
I never had 4 to start with, for the past 20+ years I have had 1. The ones I used to have turned out to be users and backstabbers. The minute I started saying things like, no, sorry I can’t lend you that cash that you need to “feed your kids” , that really you are just going to use to go to the pubs instead. I dumped them when they started that kind of shit, and really can’t be bothered anymore. I’m too old to put up with that kind of thing now. My 1 really good friend, who I don’t see for months at a time, I knows she’s there if I need her for anything, also reverse applies to her, she knows she can call me at 4am (which she has) if she needs to. We always have each others backs , and I have my family, that suits me just fine.
I lost any respect to a friend of roughly 16 years. Who is a pharmacist. And had been vaccinating people up and down the country since covid vaccines began. As a requirement of her job, and also because she travelled last year, she is doubly jabbed and had her booster. She might even have had her fourth jab (i mean, she has access to covid vaccines literally on a daily basis). And yet she vomits the stupidest anti vaxx, FB regurgitated idiocy you can think of. For me, when you’ve graduated from uni, with a Masters in Pharmacy, and your literal fucking job is to administer the drugs people take to keep on living, the standard is a bit higher. Not just your scientific worldview, your discipline, the way you conduct yourself, but also your moral integrity. It is the kind of standard I’d *demand* of myself had I been in such a position. Now, I know she is in it just for the money, she has had trouble on a number of occasions (giving the wrong meds to someone, and the subsequent fallout and all that), and at times told me things that were kind of disturbing. For her to be anti vaxx though (and this is someone I taught microbiology to back when I was moonlighting as a tutor/mentor during my uni days), after all that she knows and deals with, to base her entire argument not on facts and figures that can be discussed, dissected etc but on some vague “don’t trust the man, don’t belive the system” BS is an insult to everything as a scientist I stand for. You can have your point of view on a number of things, have different political opinion etc but as a scientist you develop one thing and that is to be absolutely ruthless and clean when it comes to facts pertaining to the field you study. You understand the scientific method, how we reach consensus, you **live** the peer-reviewed world of academia (and trust me, it’s not always so clean and shiny), but you absolutely worship **facts**. You don’t bring half-baked idiotic conspiracy bullshit to a dialogue on something as clearcut as covid and the vaccines and the general public health. Besides, given you’re *already* triple vaccinated, it doesn’t cost you jack to even maybe perhaps pay just lip service to the general consensus that the more people get vaccinated the better for everyone. This thing has killed millions across the world and a lot of those deaths could’ve been prevented. To be in that position, be one of the first to benefit from the vaccine breakthrough, yet shit on it (privately) at the first chance you get speaks of the kind of morally bankrupt mind I’d rather cut off from my life. It sometimes felt like a stain to even *talk* to her.
I lost a few. After finishing uni in the pandemic I’ve lost around 10 people who I called friends. Clearly they didn’t give a shit. Not a loss tho they can do one
In London lost of friends that just left the UK as a whole due to covid or brexit.
Most of my crowd was international so, I lost like 70% I have a very small friend circle now but I’m also moving out of the UK this year so guess I’m joining them?
From my experience more people just became comfortably isolated. The friends I had that are married or in relationships stopped associating with anyone that wasn’t their partner (and kids) and a few of my single friends became worryingly reclusive. I think lockdown and WFH might be the main cause of this. A lot of my friends have suffered from panic attacks and anxiety for the first time in their lives since going back to work. Thankfully most of them are getting better now and more sociable but some I’ve sadly lost for good.
Urgh, suffering with covid right now, for the second time, 6 months after first getting it. Hadn’t even got my taste and smell back properly yet.
Or you can change this headline to… Brits have found the true meaning of friendship with their friends list reduced
The kind of people who unquestioningly swallow whatever the corporate media tells them are a liability to both themselves and (sadly) others. Better to surround yourself with those who value the truth over self-soothing or convenience.
I suppose I was luckier than most in that regard then, I don’t really have many people I’d call close friends in real life but plenty of good folks online. Lockdown didn’t really change anything for us there
I lost a few of mine. Didn’t see them from the beginning to the end of the second lockdown. We’d planned to meet but then they rearranged so that a different friend could attend the meet up, and I couldn’t make it on this date. I said fine, just give me a text when you’re passing through the city centre cause I’ll pop out from my work for 5-10 minutes to say since I haven’t seen you for for a year and a bit by this point. They couldn’t be arsed to do that. Still upsetting to this day, especially since they never acknowledged and I haven’t been messaged since.. doesn’t help that I still have them on Steam and I’ve never been invited to play games that they know I have/enjoy..