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Do you mean that people have had more difficulty keeping track of time and timelines since the pandemic? I've certainly had lots of conversations where someone said, "That was 2 years ago already? What is time anymore?" They're not talking about getting older, but that the pandemic created this blank space where we didn't have our usual traditions or seasonal events. If there isn't a term for this specific phenomenon, we could make one. Pandemic time elasticity?
Yep, that's what I meant :)
Old people have been saying this since I was a kid, and I'm old now. Our perception of time appears to be weighted inversely with how much we've experienced, so summer feels like forever for a preteen, but two years is a blink of an eye to someone in their 50s. Couple that with no significant events or milestones for months or years, and your perception of time is further distorted. And now all those old people, like me, can talk to a million people online about it, so it appears more prevalent than it was before, when old people couldn't or weren't communicating with strangers half a world away on a daily basis.