So the term for the Pre-COVID era is the “Before Times” final chapter

[Dynamite James]

People have been saying "before times" for like a year now

Post WWII - 2019 was all one era that shyt is not coming back

Post 9/11 was it’s on era too

 

[Secure Da Bag]

So now we're in 2 AT? Or 2 AC?

 

[Dynamite James]

Lol. shyt is basically back to normal over here. Everything is open, no curfews, hardly any restrictions on public events. Once you're vaccinated there's hardly any difference with life pre-Covid now. Just masks in public transportation and shops.

Ain’t no body talking about public events . It’s more than that. Have you been to the grocery store lately?

 

[mbewane]

There is a covid induced energy and logistics crisis slowly building up in the background though, and once immunity wanes and breakthrough infections start to rise in addition to rising infections among children and the unvaccinated, Europe will probably realize that the pandemic is not over. I already know a couple of people who've had breakthrough infections and it wasn't pretty.

Where? I live in France, been to the Netherlands and Belgium recently and ain't seen/heard anything about all this. UK going through stuff like that it seems but that seems to be linked to Brexit, tough luck.

No one's saying that the pandemic is over, I'm saying that everyday life is basically as it was before it started.

 

[mbewane]

Ain’t no body talking about public events . It’s more than that. Have you been to the grocery store lately?

My bad, I should've specified that I live in France. Yes, and they're as full as they were before.

 

[bnew]

this article from june 1st uses the same phrase

The real reason employers can't hire enough workers (opinion) - CNN

Great Tastes in Local Food, Spring 2021 — Crazy Wisdom Community Journal
dated 4/23/2021

snippet:

Because it wasn’t crowded (yet), we chose to stick around and picked a table on the edge of the tent in the warm sunshine. There was a couple at a nearby table on their respective laptops, a typical coffee house activity in the before times. Yes, we were outside and all wearing masks, but I took this as a sign that some sense of normalcy was returning to Ann Arbor.

Pace
dated 1/31/2021

snippet:

One thing that COVID-19 has taught me is that I can be more flexible in my schedule than I was in the “before times”. I usually work from home these days, because I’m often on zoom meetings, and they tend to be more comfortable for me at home. But I also like writing and reading at home, and this covers a lot of what I do with my work. I also realized that I could do things like go running in the middle of the day, which is a real pleasure that I normally didn’t do before COVID-19. It is great, because it breaks up the zoom meetings and allows me to have a change of pace, which is rejuvenating.

cnn earliest usage dated 8/12/2020
Pregnancy during Covid-19 pandemic: The highs and lows - CNN

snippet:

In early February, my partner and I discovered that I was pregnant.

Looking back, that feels like one of the last big milestones of the Before Times — a wonderfully blissful and uncomplicated period. I'd skimmed a few headlines about a scary-sounding disease called Covid-19 but didn't worry too much about it.

The Quilting Violinist: An Ironic Quilt for These Times
dated 7/17/2020

snippet:

In The Before Times (last February) a fellow member of the Tampa Bay Etsy Crew (an active resource for local sellers on Facebook) contacted me about replacing an old and well-loved quilt of hers that was literally falling apart. She sent me a photo of it and I could tell it was a Trip Around the World pattern, done in 2 colors: a neutral beige and black color scheme.

search before a certain date and you'll find plenty of non-news media using that phrase in the same context.

 

[Threnody]

Post 9/11 was it’s on era too

yeah that was the beginning of the end

 

[karim]

Where? I live in France, been to the Netherlands and Belgium recently and ain't seen/heard anything about all this. UK going through stuff like that it seems but that seems to be linked to Brexit, tough luck.

No one's saying that the pandemic is over, I'm saying that everyday life is basically as it was before it started.

Yes, everyday life at the moment is almost as it was before, but I'm not sure we will make it through the winter without reimposing restrictions. For example, Germany just abolished mask mandates in schools and as a result, infections among kids 6 - 14 years old are going through the roof.

As for the things I'm talking about, it's not just the UK:

A global energy crisis is coming. There's no quick fix
Global Supply Chains’ Crisis Is Much Bigger Than The Pandemic; The Transformation They’re Undergoing Is The Cure
Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine: Studies confirm waning immunity from vaccine - CNN

 

[Cryptocurrency Scarface]

ITS BK AND AK

BEFORE KOBE AND AFTER KOBE

I wasn’t a Kobe Stan but it definitely warped my sense of reality I’m still struggling to come to terms with what happened

 

[humminbird]

who really thought we were "going back to normal"
yolo era won

 

[NoMorePie]

Remember the days when people hid their selfishness?

 

[mbewane]

Yes, everyday life at the moment is almost as it was before, but I'm not sure we will make it through the winter without reimposing restrictions. For example, Germany just abolished mask mandates in schools and as a result, infections among kids 6 - 14 years old are going through the roof.

As for the things I'm talking about, it's not just the UK:

A global energy crisis is coming. There's no quick fix
Global Supply Chains’ Crisis Is Much Bigger Than The Pandemic; The Transformation They’re Undergoing Is The Cure
Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine: Studies confirm waning immunity from vaccine - CNN

I hear you, in Belgium there was indeed talk about rising gas prices. However 2nd article goes in depth about how the global supply crisis is not only linked to the pandemic and presents more structural issues, and the third says that immunity does wane BUT that "protection against severe disease, hospitalization and disease" remain strong. This has been more or less known from the beginning : getting vaccinated does not totally stop one from catching the virus, but it does efficiently protect against the severe forms. That being said, various countries (including France) have opened up the possibility for a 3rd shot precisely because this is known. The fact that infections among kids in Germany is rising is kind of logical : they are the population that is less vaccinated, kids under 12 can't even get vaccinated in France.

 

[Dynamite James]

..

 

[karim]

I hear you, in Belgium there was indeed talk about rising gas prices. However 2nd article goes in depth about how the global supply crisis is not only linked to the pandemic and presents more structural issues, and the third says that immunity does wane BUT that "protection against severe disease, hospitalization and disease" remain strong. This has been more or less known from the beginning : getting vaccinated does not totally stop one from catching the virus, but it does efficiently protect against the severe forms. That being said, various countries (including France) have opened up the possibility for a 3rd shot precisely because this is known. The fact that infections among kids in Germany is rising is kind of logical : they are the population that is less vaccinated, kids under 12 can't even get vaccinated in France.

Past Pandemics Remind Us Covid Will Be an Era, Not a Crisis That Fades

 

[JNew]

Anything to sell papers.

"The Before Times"