Since the Covid-19 pandemic has been declared "over" and pandemic restrictions have been lifted in Germany and other European countries, this once dramatic and dominant topic has seemingly disappeared from public discourse and private conversations in the region. Occasionally, demands for a reckoning with the unintended and/or long-term effects of lockdowns and similar measures as well as Covid-19 infections find their way into media and might serve as a reminder that neither the virus nor its consequences have actually vanished. Yet, in many everyday encounters one might have as an anthropologist trying to trace some of these long-term consequences through ethnographic fieldwork, I mostly heard that "we have other problems now", such as inflation, supply chain interruptions, energy issues and/or incompetent politicians. After overcoming the initial frustration of not finding anyone interested in talking about the Covid-19 pandemic anymore in 2023, however, these conversational detours proved to be a vital resource for understanding how the pandemic continued to shape everyday lives in a country like Germany which had been able to largely alleviate many effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on ethnographic fieldwork with mobile essential workers such as long-haul truck drivers and construction workers in Germany, in this presentation I aim to discuss how feelings of being ignored and forgotten within dominant regulations and narratives of the Covid-19 pandemic remain and become palpable in both the reluctance to talk about the pandemic and the emphasis on "different" and "more important" problems.