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

To those saying it was a light cold…

Covid was a new virus belonging to the same set of viruses as SARS. NOT the same set of viruses as flu.

People have experienced colds/flu etc before so your body has some learnt immunity.

As this was a new virus, it was difficult to say how different people would react and how the virus could mutate.

So before the vaccine, a lot of people had serious complications and hospitals couldn’t cope across all their services.

It has not really gone anywhere. I mean people aren't catching it at the same rates but they are still getting it. I had a contractor cancel last week after testing positive. I had a booster last month as I'm vulnerable and at risk but I still worry in crowded places and public transport when I hear someone spluttering and coughing. It made me so unwell when I got it that I never want to catch it ever again. That was 6 months after a booster so I wasn't fully protected anymore but I'm definitely more wary.

Ha, exactly what I thinking.

Firstly as someone with long covid I absolutely remember covid. Unfortunately what your remembering is not what I'm remembering. I worked in a supermarket before being shielded so I got of easy but I remember the beginning which was people fighting over loo roll, refusing to wear face masks, not being capable of keep their distance. People coughing in my face without covering their mouth, licking their fingers before passing money over and the abuse to staff going up.

I agree with you OP. An aspect of 2020 and 2021 that has been forgotten was those who used the pandemic to their advantage, especially corrupt procurement and fake businesses. I want justice for that to be served.

There was a lot of arseholes traipsing over fields with their shitting lockdown dogs

Exactly. The lockdown killed my mother. She became mentally unwell, abandoned by the NHS and was given a powerful drug that likely killed her. The inquest was inconclusive.

My child's education was ruined.

I'll never get over the effects of lockdowns.

There are people who were able to remain fairly oblivious to the nastiness going on during the pandemic, because they weren't easy targets.

Yes. It really opened my mind to how petty some people could be. I had many middle-class friends happy with their comfortable stockpiles, judging anyone who didn’t do the pandemic the exact way they did. An eye-opener.

It was not back to normal a few months in. DCs were still being sent home to isolate if one class member tested positive. The whole household had to isolate and contacted by test and trace. They locked down again pre Christmas. GCSEs and Alevel exams were cancelled. The disruption to education was more than a few months.

People were arseholes during covid, just like they are at any other time. Do you not remember all the supermarkets being stripped bare? Or people calling the police on their neighbours for exercising too much? Just have a look at some of the thread on here from the time.

The world realised what was important. Now it has too easily gone back to the superficiality it was before and people complaining about everything.

I experienced the exact opposite. I had a newborn and was suddenly cut off from spending precious days with my family. I missed my friends and their children, I missed the little community I'd carved out for myself in my town 200 miles from my family. I missed my best friend, whose mental health was getting worse and worse until she eventually moved back to her home country and hasn't come back. Friends had elderly relatives left alone in care homes, some of them dying alone. Funerals in isolation, weddings cancelled.

I know what's important. Family, friends, community, caring for each other. Lockdown obliterated that, it didn't suddenly make me realise that it mattered

Cleaners too especially hospital domestics. I was one in covid. Many of us lost our lives to working on covid wards.

we are the worst treated amongst NHS staff.

Ill never forget a comment that a colleague told me about a nurse who rudely told her to clean down a bed next to a Covid patient in a room full of Covid patient, she said that’s your next job, that’s what your there for, you get Covid so we don’t have to.
unfortunately for her a consultant overheard her and absolutely wiped the floor with her, said that if it wasn’t for us there wouldn’t be a hospital to work in and for patients to get better.

there were a lot of twats around before covid, twats in covid and even bigger twats around now.

and as for all the saucepan banging and hand clapping on a Thursday ugh

Ok Doctor

I loved it, the weather was amazing, ds was home for a few months, we spent loads of time in the garden and it was so quiet and peaceful with hardly any cars on the road. I could do that for a few months every year tbh.

I understand. I also agree that entitlement has increased. Teaching as a profession has certainly changed post covid in a negative way (children's behaviour and especially parents' attitudes to learning, absence and teachers in general). Sorry you're feeling this way as a front line worker. We shoukd be grateful there are any of you left working after the conditions you faced.

I'm a volunteer dog walker and even I was designated "key worker" at the time!

This.

The post you quote was fair enough until that point. But there's no excuse for not knowing, in 2024, how lockdown also meant trapping some people in the home with their abusers. Don't recall those people volunteering to put their lives at risk for the benefit of wider society.

I swear I’ve read this exact OP word for word at least once before. Is it just copied and pasted every few months or something?

Trust me, many of us were far from “safe and cosy” in our homes. You have no idea what others had going on or how lockdown negatively affected them. I think you need to check your own attitude actually.

vulnerable loved ones all got Covid and faired better than ds,dd, and myself.

Covid for them was a light cold.

For the rest of us it was a horrible infection that lasted weeks and the post viral fatigue was something that wiped us out

I hated every minute of it and couldn't wait to get back to normal
Some people seemed to love it,IME people who didn't go out or go on holiday and enjoyed everyone being in the same boat

When I see the word 'sheep' in discussions about covid, it makes me switch off. Same with selfish and clot shot.

What an uninformed and uneducated comment.

Sorry, but if you think it all went back to normal when kids went back to school a few months in, you don't know what you're talking about.