To miss the first lockdown?

Benevolent ageism has also increased tenfold since lockdown thanks to anyone over 60 being deemed frail and vulnerable regardless of fitness or health status. I'm not that age but I do have grey hair although I'm slim and superfit. The number of simpering shop assistants addressing me as sweetheart or my lovely is staggering. I'm good at impersonations and usually repeating something back in the same accent/tone of voice shuts them up. I absolutely dread old age and having to put up with this level of ageist idiocy. I hope I die long before then.

In some ways I see where you’re coming from. But so many people had a terrible time or even died, lost a loved one to the virus during Covid that it feels a bit thoughtless to express this.

My mother had cancer in 2020 and I was unable to be with her because I lived in Australia and she was overseas. She died in 2021 and I was only able to have the last 6 weeks of her life to care for her because of border closures. I would do anything to have been able to spend more time with her.

People got very sick and many died from covid during lockdown, we should never forget that. But personally, I lost my job (before furlough even started) which meant I had no money and had to go on benefits for the first time ever, BUT the weather was amazing and I got to spend the whole summer at home with my daughter who was 3 at the time. So I understand OP as I also have many happy memories. But it was different for everyone and most people were not as fortunate

@BogRollBOGOF But while people of comfortable means were happy to keep children off, that enabled the government to create conditions that kept children off longer with no questions asked.
This is one of the worst and most sinister aspect of lockdowns - the massive harms were not questioned AT ALL.

No questions were asked about the harms of keeping children off school.

Starmer and his party failed to ask these questions.
The press failed to ask these questions (because only "government-approved" questions were allowed in the Tory media.)
The electorate would probably have liked to ask these questions, but were not given the chance.

Heck, one of the only people who actually put Boris on the spot was Justine (was it Justine?) of our very own Mumsnet!!!!! She grilled him (about Partygate) when all journalists had completely failed to do so.

I really like hearing all the positive experiences that some people had during lockdown.

And the reason for that is that, for me, hearing them mitigates, admittedly in a small way but even so, all the truly awful, life changing, irreversible shit that was thrown at my family and my loved ones.

Agreed. The fact that it took so long for the t.v briefings to be signed said it all really. Before anyone jumps in with "well there were subtitles", they were haphazard at best and not easy to follow at times.

I find it more vulgar that all the things put into place for ableds to access the world, that apparently weren't an option for disabled people before lockdown, but when implemented, were completely life changing, were then taken away again when the ableds didn't need them any more.

Nah you’re alright. I spent a lot of it in a psychiatric hospital away from my not yet one year old daughter. It was a horrific time and I hated every second and feel quite traumatised by it all (and I don’t say that lightly). Then to top it all off, my brother died from Covid. It was not a good time for me at all.

Fine words. But sadly I have encountered many individuals in the NHS doing less than even their job description sets out. If stating that is "attacking" , then we're all fucked.

Wow.

Im one of the ones here saying ‘ happy to be called vulgar etc for enjoying lockdown because my life was the bottom level of hell in the shit show ranks and it was a welcome reprieve’ but this is a low blow. Really really low.

I think in my entire life I’ve met one shit NHS worker - and I work with them all yhd time in my job.

This is an emotive subject - but this is just plain nasty.

Some of the awful stuff individual workers encountered during this time is beyond comprehension for many.

The system is shit - I’m currently sat on a waiting list for a birth injury that has floored my and I’m looking at months with nothing but SSP - shit system - but attacking the individual doing their best ij that system is vile.

Yes but the rates have gone down and far less people ordering from home

I didn’t mind lockdown too much, but was lucky enough to have a house and some private outdoor space. It must have been awful for people stuck in flats.

Oh I dunno. Maybe you could say "vibes" was based on spoken words. As in "it's not as bad as all that, just go home and have a cup of tea" to a woman with ovarian torsion.

Or maybe you could say it was based on actions, when the nurse ignores the woman with ovarian torsion in a ward with two patients, one of whom is sleeping, because " it's not medicine time yet".

Or you could say it was based on intent, when the A&e nurse refused to take the blood filled sample bowl of the woman with ovarian torsion, because "you're not my patient", and left her holding it, in full view of a crowded waiting room.

Angels, indeed, all.

The only nurses my OH says are friendly, helpful, etc are in the oncology day treatment centre administering the chemotherapy, but he thinks they're "cherry picked" for the "customer service" attitude with people likely to die! He says the specialist cancer nurses definitely give off the "can't be arsed" vibe, especially on the telephone "help" line. Likewise, the other type of NHS staff he sees regularly are also pretty unhelpful and unfriendly, i.e. the phlebotomists, x-ray technicians, MRI scan technicians, and the receptionists are typical GP style receptionists who you have to battle with to get appointments, even for life saving chemotherapy sessions they make it like pulling teeth to give you the appointment dates instructed by the oncology consultant! He says the ward nurses are particularly awful, and that's the oncology ward!!

And being paid to do nothing, I assume. Thats how furlough worked. And now we’re all having to pay for it through taxes.🤷‍♀️

Vibes,you say
how does one quantify vibe?
Just the nurses? What about the Doctors ,Physio,the SLT. The pesky phlebotomists

They don't do that now? I see loads of delivery riders around the place.

I feel nostalgic for the money I was earning delivering food to people hiding in their houses. Was good for me

Figures. Any time I've been in hospital, nurses consistently give "don't want to work" vibes.

I’m fairly confident nurses wouldn’t want to work with you, either, so it sounds like it’s for the best.

I wouldn't want to work with nurses.

Plus, I mostly like my job.

You should give it a go. I doubt you’d have the compassion for it though.

instead of being bitter about it, why not becoming one - or trying to, if it's that easy and too well paid?

I think every person on earth has heard at great length what nurses do.

Just to be clear zonenorthlondon my pp wasn't a dig.Its the media and political portrayal and how quickly that can change.