I played video games the most of the time throughout the pandemic. And I seldom ever went out. Because school and college were closed at the time, I had to spend all of my time at home, therefore I used to wear masks constantly. Food was not a problem for us because we had food kept at home, although we periodically had to go out to little markets. The most challenging is the online classes because I was not ready for it at the early times of pandemic.
This is also my case, due to pandemic we were not allowed to go outside only essential workers. Students and workers had to stay at home some chose to resign as they have no choice and some look some opportunity online and work from home. They announced that classes will be implement via online classes since some student doesn't afford to stop for a year. With this stressful environment and it's hard to adapt learning with online due to we were used to face to face classes. Only thing I could do at home after some classes was playing games and browse the internet. It helps me to distract myself despite the worse situation of my country.
I don't know if online classes is really effective to students that time since a lot could use the internet for school works and test. Some of them doesn't really absorb what teachers taught to them. But I think the fact that they couldn't afford to waste time also teachers might lose their jobs.