I’m writing this post through shock.
Over 40,000 people have died in our little country. 40,000 lives taken early. And no one cares. I’ve barely seen that figure mentioned in any of these threads, no mention of them or the hundreds of thousands of people who’s lives will be affected forever through losing them. Yet I know many people are reading this even now and saying ‘oh for god sake’ or ‘life goes on get over it’. Yes, life does go on, for us but not for them. And not for the thousands more who are going to die in the next wave because of the selfish ones who simply can’t stand to give up the life that they’re used to for a short while to fight this thing.
The government have been slow, and in being slow they’ve killed tens of thousands of people, they are trying not to take anymore risks... they’re now literally begging people to wear a mask and keep a few feet away for fuck sake and people can’t even manage that without kicking off, one comment ‘I just don’t like the feel of them on my face’ ... seriously?! Before you all think I must not understand or must not be struggling I’ve got two school age kids and we’ve taken a 50% pay cut whilst we juggle 3 jobs between us and homeschooling. By god I get the struggle. But I wouldn’t for a second put my struggle above someone’s life. There are NO excuses.
You know the figures, you’ve heard how dangerous this disease is, it’s not like flu, it’s a killer which leaves most who are lucky enough to recover with potentially long term problems. You know it’s highly contagious and you know that at least 30,000 a week are still being infected in your country. You know we are the second hardest hit country in the world (out of almost 200 countries?!). I’ve led what I consider a privileged life by living in the uk but I’m not letting that go to my head. People are acting like spoilt brats. If we went to war right now with the attitudes most people have we would be utterly fucked.
I’m not following this thread or reading the comments as everyone’s pissing me off too much, but christ I needed a vent... this country needs to get a fucking grip.
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Doesn’t anyone care?
Widget123 · 13/06/2020 13:10
Have you actually been on mumsnet recently? Because seems to me all of these things are discussed all the time
You think no one else has noticed or that everyone has noticed and doesn't care?
People have barely left their homes for two and a half months, they haven't seen their loved ones for all that time in a lot of cases. People have made huge sacrifices and all you can do is spit bile at them.
Incidentally I don't even know a single person who has caught the illness, never mind died from it. Not even a friend of a friend or the relative of a colleague or a man who lives nearby. No one. And I've still bloody made sacrifices because I've been asked to. And yet apparently it's still not good enough.
It's a good job we have people like the op pointing these things out for us or where would we be .
The deaths rates are access to everyone who has internet so I can see how many people have died and yes it's shocking but of course we care otherwise we wouldn't have lockdown since March .
Peoples jobs livelihoods are at risk because life is important. You can argue that the government did or didn't do enough but people are well aware and they are just as tired and fed up of all this as you are .
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