How People Have Changed the Way They Think After COVID-19

Have you ever felt like your life at work changed and everything you used to cannot be done anymore? I work for a grocery store and coming home from college from the COVID-19 to work was different, I went from being able to hug my work friends, have drinks in my workplace, and even try to help customers with any problems they have.

Now I have to wear a face mask up to nine hours a day trying to restock the shelves, having to keep a far distance from my coworkers and just doing a elbow bump, and when customers are in need of help I cannot be physically right next to them since I do not know what they have been exposed to or they do not know what I have been exposed to.

I have also had to get a second job at an ice cream store to work and get extra money to help my parents with bills since they were both taken out of work. since working through this pandemic, I believe it is not going to be easy to go back to what our normal looked like once, it will take time and different rules or even laws to help make sure this pandemic does not come back.

“Many shoppers are awaiting the day when waiting in line before even getting inside the store is a distant memory. But regardless of when that day comes, it’s likely the pandemic will transform the way we shop for food for many years to come” (8 ways coronavirus may change how we shop at the grocery store forever).

A big problem with grocery stores people is going to continue to stop up. For example, if things like disinfecting wipes show up in my store again of course I am going to by as much as I can since I was able to get them at the time. There is now curbside pick-up or devilry offered at most grocery stores. I appreciate that stores offer it now since it’s nice to see not as many older people and people have kids come into the store.

“Our research shows that there is no guarantee that life will go back to the way it was before, even after the pandemic has passed. Only 47.9 percent of all consumers plan to resume the activities they used to do outside their homes, while another 32.1 percent say they plan to do far less outside the home than they had done before” (What Life Could Look Like After COVID-19).

It is weird seeing these numbers like this because I personally do not know how much longer I can handle because just stuck in my house and then just going to work. I thought that more people would want to go outside and try to enjoy the things they could not. It is also scary to think about because if they are not a lot of people going out and business are getting less sales, things could get shut down or close. But then there is a plus to this because then there are not a lot of people going on and rising of another pandemic to happen but we ca not just live like this for the rest of our lives.

Away from my argument, people that we will not open back up and it could take a year or even years to get everything back to normal. There is also a lot of different doctors that have different opinion then others. You sit and watch the news and you sit and watch one chancel and then next chancel it talks about how the this is wrong when the other chancel just said it was right. There are also people that do not think we will ever go back to the old normal we had, and this is our new norm.

I believe it is not going to be easy to go back to what our normal looked like once, it will take time and different rules or even laws to help make sure this pandemic does not come back. COVID-19 is something we must watch every day since it changes, one day we could have low cases and numbers of deaths and the next day it is the complete opposite. Every day my own opinion on this virus changes because I work in an environment that has a case and are trying to work with it.