Not ordering out has caused our energy levels to increase and our heads to clear, our productivity seems to have doubled. I've dropped 6kg in 3 weeks, and I seem to have gotten over a lifelong insecurity which used to tell me "you are a sysadmin, not a software developer" having learned golang and vuejs, building my first web-app in 22 years.
You should consider moving somewhere outside a large city, if possible. You may find that it helps your asthma permanently. Remote jobs for tech workers should be easier to find in the future.
> Not ordering out...
> having learned golang and vuejs, building my first web-app in 22 years
Covid did not cause these things. I don't know why you avoided cooking at home or learning new skills in the past, but you could have made these changes with or without a pandemic.
I think you asked your question because you think there might be an under-appreciated silver lining to this pandemic, one in which drastic isolation measures have ironically made some people happier.
To me, this line of thinking comes off as incredibly callous. Many of the people reading this will be miserable. Others will lose family, friends, jobs, houses, relationships, mental health, etc. All of us will lose the prosperity of our home country, even if we don't lose our own jobs.
I'm glad that the major effect of the pandemic on your life is giving you willpower that you couldn't otherwise muster.
I don't see anything broadly interesting to the rest of us about it, and I think it's in incredibly poor taste to brag about how well a deadly disease is treating you. It just highlights how badly it's going to treat most other living humans.
Unless we are seeking out what works rather than what is broken all the time, we're going to miss a lot ways to make life better.