a pandemic now four years ago, on March 11, 2020. It feels like yesterday, last month and decades ago all at the same time.
We're coming up on the four-year anniversary of the first covid lockdowns and toilet paper shortages etc. Not sure if it feels like yesterday or 500 years ago.I just can't believe its been FOUR YEARS since covid. I truly feel like it was yesterday I was standing outside, waiting to buy meat in the grocery store, a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan — though it’s safe to say it did. But a few things are likely contributing to that sense of distortion.
Additionally, “big changes or surprising events create ‘event boundaries,’” Lustig told HuffPost, “Our minds expand the time between different events, and compress time within an event.” “However, when people try to place the events that happened during lockdown on a timeline, they remember them as closer together than was really the case,” Lustig explained — something that further adds to this warped sense of time.The pandemic was a huge change to life on a macro level, according to Lustig. All of a sudden, we were in a terrifying pandemic and couldn’t see friends and family or even go to work without risking a potentially fatal illness.