Has your life gotten better or worse since the Pandemic began?

[SvennoJ]

Worse.

All my favorite outdoor places got overcrowded with people.
Shopping is a pita.
I've been needing new glasses for over a year, learned to see without them...
I chipped my tooth last year, on hold, got used to it.
I haven't seen the chiropractor in over a year, back issues, leg cramps, got to deal with it.
Can't get a contractor to fix the siding of the house.
Kids are always home, up later as well due to online schooling and not burning off enough energy during the day.
Online schooling is a great source of technical difficulties, lost count how many times I had to reinstall drivers, reinstalled win 10 from scratch on both my kid's laptops and just bought them new ones as keyboards, usb ports and charge ports all started failing from heavy use.

My wife is off much worse. The producer of her blood pressure medication closed down (she was on it for well over a decade) and she got pretty much all side effects on the replacement while it's not working to keep her blood pressure under control. It's impossible to get hold of a doctor, after 6 months she finally got to see a specialist, who did nothing much. Another different medication, more side effects, more waiting to hear back from test results. This has been ongoing since last August and she's still not able to function normally.

Our oldest isn't off too bad from the pandemic, lacking exercise though, but he doesn't mind online learning and mostly plays online with his friends now. Too much screen time. Our youngest is having a very rough time, hates online learning, misses his friends, not doing all that well.

Btw wtf are you going on vacation during a pandemic. It's people that keep traveling that keep this virus active and around.