What was your low point of the pandemic?

[Takket]

For me it was probably the nauseating fear that every time I left the home to work or get food I might come home with a virus that would kill my physically fragile wife.

Paltrow ate bread. So. I’m sure she can relate.

I don’t have an issue with her. If that’s as low as she got, Good for her. But I am disgusted the The Guardian is putting out crap like this as journalism. Why the fuck are they even reporting something this inane?

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[Quakerfriend]

1. And, she drank A-list whiskey... 🙄

My low point was having to retire early to avoid bringing the virus home-
I worked in a hospital. Others have had it much worse I realize.

[Siwsan]

2. She ate bread? Poor Gwyneth. My lowest point was losing a good friend to Covid.

But at least that didn't involve ingesting any carbs or gluten.

[Rorey]

5. I don't think Paltrow has any idea about real world problems

I am sorry for your loss.

My diet through the pandemic sucked. But so what. What I ate or didn't eat is hardly a monumental problem.

[Siwsan]

12. I agree - she's always seemed pretty oblivious to how the 'common folk' live

And thank you. My friend was a lovely person. She followed all of the precautions, but one little slip up, the you don't even realize happened, is all it takes.

I never changed anything about my TOTALLY unrestricted diet, during the pandemic, except that I probably ate less than usual for about the first 6 months, or so. My reaction to stress.

[gopiscrap]

30. mine too

along with having it myself (and two resultant heart attacks because of COVID in January)

[Rorey]

3. I DO have an issue with her

I'm admitting that I find her nauseating. I think she's way overrated, and the only reason we ever knew her is because of who her parents are.

Also, she's nuts.

And I'm not really too excited about Blythe Danner either.

[Grokenstein]

18. VERY nuts.

She peddles fraudulent "cures" and recommends dangerous practices. That's everything I need to know about her.

[gopiscrap]

31. who are her parents

[FakeNoose]

36. Blythe Danner (actress) and Bruce Paltrow (director now deceased)

Gwynneth grew up with the privilege of celebrity, and she has been indulged her entire life.

[BoringUsername]

32. I never liked her either

She's too out of touch with regular people.

[Blues Heron]

4. If she admitted to bread, she's probably also eating cake...

Also she drank "every night" means she was probably also doing breakfast shots

[John Ludi]

6. My

lowest point was the realization that I had been correct all along that an enormous amount of people are wholly incapable of coping with any level of adversity whatsoever and that they will jump down whatever rabbit hole confirms their selfish instincts...and that an even more serious crises will probably wipe most of us out.

I pretty much figured all that out as a kid, but to see my darker-than-dark cynicism confirmed so fully and so blatantly over the past year has been about the most demoralizing thing I've dealt with in this fucked-up world thus far...and I've dealt with some serious shit over the decades.

[Rorey]

8. It definitely exposed some ugliness in some people

I was telling my son the other day that the pandemic taught us some good lessons, but of course some people haven't learned anything at all.

[Grokenstein]

20. Yep. Just saw the North/South Carolina "gas shortage" panic.

Dingleberries "stocking up" on fuel that will deteriorate beyond use in a matter of months, piling plastic canisters on their sides in the back of their vehicles like they've never encountered gasoline before in their lives but tell themselves they gotta have it all...and telling themselves that Biden caused the shortage.

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[jimfields33]

25. They'll use it through summer.

They actually will save money. Maybe will be able to get through summer with the food budget now. We have no idea their circumstances.

[somethingshiny]

7. Lying in a hospital bed

with a chest tube stuck in my back, and losing the (in home child care) business I'd had for 33 years. forcing me into a retirement I cannot really afford. Guess that was my low point.
But eating bread - yeah, that would've been rough, too.

[Rorey]

10. I'm so sorry

I hope you're okay, physically, now. That sounds awful.

[somethingshiny]

11. Thank you.

I'm doing well. Thankful it wasn't worse.

[Rorey]

13. Glass half full

You sound like someone with a positive attitude.

I told my daughter the other day that I think I'm a "glass three-quarters full" kind of person. Yet I always have this fear that anything can happen and that some sort of bad thing that will break me is lurking.

[ananda]

9. The big deep freeze (weather).

I was trapped with no power for four days.

My car saved me with its hybrid engine
and cigarette lighter charger for devices.

[Siwsan]

14. I can empathize with that!

I went through a 6 day power outage during a time of unusually low temps and high snowfall. Not fun. My fireplace was my salvation. Well, that and my car for charging stuff.

On the bright side, the main part of the house was so cold, I didn't lose anything from the refrigerator/freezer. You could actually see your breath in the kitchen!

[Rorey]

15. But you survived!

You now have a story to tell. You made it through!

[Akacia]

16. Realizing how selfish some people are.

I think one of my low points was the politician, who said something along line of grandparents should just go ahead and die to save the economy.

[mnhtnbb]

17. Sitting on the floor, hand feeding

my constant companion--a rescue dog--for 10 1/2 years so she'd eat and then taking her for her last walk before the vet made a house call to my apartment to put her to sleep.

That was last June. I cried for a week. And I'm crying as I write this. I still miss her.

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[IrishAfricanAmerican]

26. Sorry for your loss.

[arlyellowdog]

19. Right now! (Aside from everything Trump)

But just pandemic related, my adult autistic son cannot return to his day program because he takes off his mask. He (and all the other participants) are fully vaccinated, but a number of employees are refusing vaccine. They cannot be required or even asked whether they are vaccinated. This issue also affects transportation for disabled persons. It is a horrible limbo. He is 45, got Covid early, fully recovered, got the vaccine, is ready to leave the house after over a year....and cannot go. Antivaxxers (of all types) are holding America hostage. My solution is: the vaccine is available, if the people in a workplace or situation are of age to take the vaccine, open up at people’s own risk. Vaccinated people are protected.

[Maxheader]

21. the impact is so huge...still.

The horror is ongoing....

[MissMillie]

22. When Mom tested positive last spring

She passed away in mid-July, and was clear of the virus by then, but she was suffering from heart disease before she caught the virus. It did enough damage to accelerate her demise.

So most of last Spring and Summer took its toll on me--knowing she had the virus, losing her, and mourning her. (Of course, I'm still mourning.)

[Rorey]

23. I'm so sorry for your loss of your mom

Loss is always difficult. I feel that part of the surviving/healing process from profound loss is being surrounded by those who care about us. That wasn't really possible during this pandemic for a lot of people. Grieving was even more complicated because of that.

[Nay]

24. When I got a bad mammogram, showing 3 suspicious spots, after 10 years of

clean mammos after my first bout with breast cancer. My BP got so high when they tried to do the biopsies that I had to get BP and anxiety meds just to get the biopsy. I was a MESS. It took a month to get calm enough for the biopsies. I couldn't eat (not even bread ), couldn't sleep.

But there was good news -- I only had benign fibroids! No cancer!

[joetheman]

27. My spouse died from COVID-19 in April of 2020. It's been downhill ever since. nt

[lagomorph777]

28. It isn't over; I can't think of the pandemic in the past tense.

[Hugin]

33. Yeh...

I can't help thinking it's a mistake to write it off too soon.

The bright light is that the new administration has kept it from getting worse in the US and is handling the vaccinations with the direction of the experts.

[Greybnk48]

29. On my read, she succumbed to alcoholism, or at the very least

daily serious heavy drinking. The article, and Paltrow seemed to try and lighten this up by mentioning bread and other carbs. But she admitted that she found herself drinking heavily on a daily basis, which is dangerous.

The fact that she said she drank some cutesy named whiskey drink, named after her grandfather is a smoke screen.

My mother used to use the same tactic. Almost a fifth a day was as an "occasional cocktail." She's mad herself unlikeable, I agree. But she's not to be envied.

[MineralMan]

34. Losing my 96-year-old father in just three days.

He got COVID from a home health care worker and was gone three days later. My mom died on the same day from Alzheimer's complications, apparently, but she might also have gotten infected and pushed over the edge.

COVID sucks.

As for Gwyneth, oh well...

[bedazzled]

41. oh, how to deal with such heavy losses all at once

you are so strong. please accept my condolences...

[lame54]

35. The very long days between...

The election and Biden finally winning

[maxsolomon]

37. Paltrow's "going off the rails" is pure Rage-Bait.

She put herself in a straightjacket of abstemious eating; she's now failed to live up to her unrealistic standards, whoop de doo.

The purpose of these articles is for everyone to get mad at her and visit the website and see ads.

Instead of hating on celebrities, everyone should be kind to themselves and others.

[bedazzled]

38. having a maskless asshole back me into a corner

while saying "am i making you UNCOMFORTABLE?

i was lucky. being a retail manager i escaped into the backroom. the cashiers weren't so lucky

my store shut down a few days after that. luckily, i became eligible for social security and said to hell with this, i won't go on a world tour. at least i will be alive.

[Initech]

39. Staying in a cheap roach infested motel after returning from Vegas.

Because the outbreak happened in the middle of my trip and I was forced to quarantine when I got back. Ugh that sucked!

I would submit that Gwen go stay in an Extended Stay America if she wants to see a low point of her life.

[hatrack]

40. Realizing, even as vaccinations rolled and death tolls dropped, how many morons were still out there

How many weren't - and still aren't - going to get the vaccine.

Fucking morons.

[Towlie]

42. My low point so far is seeing people talk about the pandemic in the past tense, as if it were over.

 
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News flash: It's not.

[Iggo]

43. The same low point I've reached every few months for the last 30 or so years.

The point at which I accept that there are way more stupid people than I thought, and that they are way stupider than I thought was possible in an adult population.

Oh and I ordered 25 lbs of pinto beans but they gave me black beans instead. I feel ya, Gwyneth!!

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