There were a few months when I just didn't leave the apartment at all (outside of very basic tasks generally in the evening). When I finally stepped outside one morning, everything just looked surreal.

I didn’t leave my property (house/yard) at all for a couple months. And even then, as my puppy needed more activity, we never ventured to anywhere with a lot of people. When I had to take her in to the vet last month, in my neighborhood’s little downtown area, I just felt completely unsettled. I have no idea how people who have to be out in public places daily do it.

So so true. Every time I am like “wait, but what about social distancing?”. “Ho right. It’s 1980.”

I have the same feelings, it is very similar to how I feel when I see the WTC twin towers in older movies.

Along those lines, it's low-key fascinating for me to see unintentional 9/11 imagery in pre-9/11 movies. Look at something like True Lies, which treats a terrorist attack and a plane destroying a building as lighthearted action movie fare.

You never see that kind of imagery treated so flippantly after 9/11. 2000s movies with 9/11 analogues (War of the Worlds, Munich, Cloverfield, etc.) deal with it mostly indirectly and always as deep-set trauma.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_entertainment_affected...

Kind of like flying in the 80s and 90s vs. the post-911 hellscape that our domestic airports have become.