The hell of shit one had as experience during pandemic was severely pitty. My country was to political about the whole thing, because reality states that it wasn't to that estimation. Lots of fears, grief, deaths, sicknesses, recession, lack, hunger, products absence, no market, indoors, lots of sex, lockdown and security threat.
This terms was the only psycho imagination of people and fears of people. The government also came up with vaccine, test and quarantine. Dudes this wasn't funny even in my country that was political, no way to travel after all and no country is ready to occupy immigrants. It was a fiest stories, often counting and increasing dead victims.
But in my country it was hunger that almost take the lives of people because no money and if you have nowhere to buy something.
How did you survived the asshole pandemic disease (covid19)? Where you sore afraid? How you deassociate with people? How did you get something to eat?
It wasn't just "your country". Almost every country in the world took extreme and unthinkable steps to restrict things like movement. You mention travel, but you were not going to be let in to any places at all, even if your government would let you get on to a plane. The first few weeks were such a huge shock to the system, I was "lucky" that I could work from home, but others were simply sent home with pay. It was actually a brilliant time for some sectors of the economy, like gaming or streaming, because there were these massive audiences of people with lots of time on their hands. It started to get quite boring and tedious after a few months though, and by the end of two years it was amazing to get overseas for a holiday.