Have people forgotten about covid and what's really important?

That’s a bit what it felt like actually. Your attitude stinks .
We were seeing patients with Covid with no PPE. I looked after young people having strokes losing limbs on ventilators and dying . Every day involved telling relative their loved ones were dying or dead.
I felt very angry driving to work on deserted roads to the hospital in the summer of 2020.
I had not volunteered to risk my life or put my family at risk.
The rest of the country was safe and cosy in their homes while key workers were required to put ourselves at risk. And yes I did become very ill from Covid ( pre vaccines) .

Unnecessarily patronising

I get what you are saying OP. I agree.

Lockdown taught us, when everything else shut down and closed, just how much we rely on some roles that are notoriously under valued and unpaid.

I thought may be it would permanently shift people’s mindset and we would continue to hold the value of those key roles in mind.

I also saw our street come together and support each other. It was a pretty nice street any way but it just developed a lovely sense of community despite the difficult times. I thought that sense of community might hang around more.

Our day to day lives are utterly entwined with other people. Everything we do involves other people. The bed you wake up on involved so many people to get the resources, deliver the resources, make the bed, deliver the bed to warehouse/shop, sell the bed, deliver the bed to us. Each and everything we have had the same story. When we walk down the street, it has been built by people, cleaned by people.

Everyday, our lives are or have been supported by millions of other people and we all do our bit too. We are all connected and dependent on each other. We should value everybody’s role.

I feel like lockdown connected me more to that which was a positive in all the crap.

lockdown was awful, covid was awful. There is no debate around that. But I know what you are saying, awful times can lead to positive growth and change individually and societally.

Did you think the pandemic was going to rid the world of ungrateful, complainers? Not really sure of what you're trying to say here. The world is always going to be full of these people. The "front line" workers, doing their best in a terrible situation, it was their job.

They were actually demanded even, not just given.
We had takeaway business, DH and few still run it during just with no pick ups. The amount of "We are NHS can you send us free lunch? It's 11 people❤️" we got in messages was incredible. All friends with still running business said the same. We even had few suggesting that if we don't give free food it would be shame if people found out how we treat keyworkers. 90% of this came from supposedly an NHS staff. Bitch, these guys were keyworkers. Got abuse daily on gobsmacking scale compared to the usual slightly gobsmacking scale.

We did give some serious discounts, but not to those asking. Had some regulars who mentioned they couldn't get shopping and were vulnerable group so they ordered basically daily for a while and we either threw in extras or gave discount to help out.

Ah right, you're one of those 'enlightened' types. 🫣

Gal Gadot’s singalong was the worst

I agree.

Teachers had to do these lessons online while supervising their own kids being taught online. It showed how many parents found it difficult teaching their own.

Why have you posted this? I’m absolutely sick of the divisiveness on MN and its always around teachers.

I worked more during lockdown than I’ve ever worked (biotech) and also had to supervise DC when there were at online lessons and when they weren’t.

I’m the same as everyone else. Who decides who gets a special badge and had it harder? It was very difficult for lots of people for lots of reasons.

Just stop.

Yes people have forgotten about Covid as far as they possibly can because it was awful. What is your actual point?

Covid lockdown was awful amd way over the top IMHO. But it's over now time to move on.

Yes. I know ICU medics. It was so so tough on those wards.

It's happened and gone and most people including myself are back to living a normal life. The thing that got me then was the "keyworker" and "frontline" worker words being bandied about. I was just going to work as normal and even when covid hit the workplace just got on with it. Some people have always been rude and angry regardless.

Many public sectors workers have had a decent pay rise for the first time in many years, this year. Thanks to a change in government. Mine is over 5% which is unheard of. For many years we had a pay freeze, and then were lucky to get 2%. So i’m hoping there is more recognition of public servants, despite what the Daily Mail would like people to believe, most work incredibly hard and never get the bonuses or huge salaries seen in the private sector

Well it was nearly 5yrs ago. I think what most people realised was, is that life is short. Once things got back to normal, many people started to socialise more, wanted to get out of the house so happy to get back to the office etc. But for some, they struggled to start moving forward again. Covid will always be etched on our memories but we need to move on.

I remember on GCSE day (my DD got hers this year) they asked a head if this cohort should have got some adjustment as they
were the final year that had missed some of secondary school (DD was in year 7 when covid started) and he said that we cannot let covid define a generation. I agree with that, we all need to move forward, and we are. Doesn’t mean it’s been forgotten or lessons not learned.

This isn't exclusive to covid though, viruses have left people long term ill for ever. Covid just got more press

I think the thing about Covid it showed who the sheep are. It also woke up a lot of people. Sad thing is many of those that it woke up are damaged from the side effects of the carrots. Real sad.

I would like nothing better than to forget the whole sorry episode happened.

All the long term changes that resulted (re online bloody everything especially at schools) I'm wishing didn't.

It accelerated all the bad stuff imo.

Christ how depressing.

Are you aware that some frontline medical staff did risk their lives or even actually die?

I, for one, as a frontline worker

Frontline worker, key worker, whatever it was, was just a bloody phrase coined by the tossers in charge at the time.

You and everyone else wearing that badge were people with jobs and not more important than others.

I’m sorry that you feel people are not treating you well.
People were encouraged to be kind to neighbours, help out where you could etc. Frontline workers were more vulnerable as they carried on working whilst most stayed at home.
For me it was a horrible time. If you were vulnerable or have a vulnerable family, it was awful.
I still appreciate going out and everything being normal. I’ll never take it for granted.

over the years our opinions have seldom been the same on things, but every now & then they align completely, ,t's bizarre!!

You were politer than I was thinking though!!!

Actually, it was.
Many, many nhs staff died from it. Due to inadequate PPE at a time when very little was known about the virus.
Most staff were told that the flimsy blue masks were ok to wear all day ( because it was the cheap option and totally ineffective)

The frontline thing was very overdone, all the freebies and discounts when they were amongst the few still on a full salary. Not very HCP was in covid wards, plenty doing bugger all in empty departments..