All summer I‘ve been trying to be grateful for the things I have, but the past week has been really hard. I’m feeling really resentful of all the moms that have returned to the city from their covid rentals and summer houses. I realize that this is lame. But the jealously is getting to me. My life is just a mess. It was easier when I didn’t have to be around people. Now I’m even lonelier.

Many businesses will have to suffer losses but not the health insurance companies? Millions are without jobs and with very bleak prospects, but the shareholders can't handle one year of losses? The model is totally wrong. They can raise prices because this is an industry with pretty inelastic demand and the players are becoming fewer and fewer. Prices for health care shouldn't be allowed to go up like that.
Next year will be a huge mess with so many people who have lost their insurance. BCBS already wanted to raise my premium by close to 20% in June, due to the pandemic. Most people were not even using their insurance during the Spring. I can even imagine the prices for next year.
The health care system here is an abomination. It’s terrible. I fear for our future. We are unraveling.
Hi - im sorry for what you’re going through, but you’re not alone. It’s such a tease to see people living high while you are living low, but please know, that i Know one such family who seems to have it all on the outside second home fancy schools etc and the husband is fucking everyone he talks to, so... there you go.
Senior level people are having a hard time finding new jobs at the same pay they were getting before being laid off from Covid. It is slamming upper middle class people( or middle class for NYC standards).We had to go on medicaid because cobra was way to expensive and not possible to afford on UI benefits.
Different crises affect different people in different ways. The IT bubble wiped out many tech investors and lawyers who went in-house to work for tech companies (never found legal work again afterwards). The financial crisis permanently destroyed careers/families who were dependent on the financial sector (bankers, lawyers). This crisis hit many restauranters and small business owners.
I’m sorry for your financial situation. I can relate, as DH has been out of work since March and my work/pay is considerably reduced. Yet we live in a neighborhood where many people fled to second homes or rented places outside the city, while have not left this entire time. I wish I knew someone else IRL who can relate!
I'm sorry. It has definitely widened the gap between the very wealthy and the ones who are not. How did the pandemic affect you financially?
Never compare your inside to someone else's outside.
Hugs.