If you think the world has gone bonkers, how will this period be judged?

[Daffodil101]

To be clear, this is a thread for people who think the works has gone bonkers.

How will we look back on this? How will history judge it?

My feeling is something about the lack of consideration for children. I think we will look back and think that children’s needs were overlooked, their education and mental health was affected by adult hysteria.

They couldn’t meet their peers, schools were so worried about having them back that they treated them like dirty, walking viruses, talked about them in bubbles and wanted them to play inside hoops.

Also something about utterly bonkers behaviour with no scientific basis, however willing to argue on social media that we were right ‘just because’ and reflection on the government’s own goal in use of the word ‘safe.’

I'd agree. It's a policy to protect the elderly at disproportionate cost and lasting damage to the next generation.

Who will be paying for a long time in many ways

That dogs had more right to exercise than children in some countries.

Yes!!! This.

Yes it's bonkers. Only 19% of critical care beds are currently occupied by covid19 patients. Many hospital wards are empty. There is no work available for bank staff. We can't see a GP about current health issues (I had a phone consultation with a gp this week....I need investigtions but have to wait until restrictions are lifted......what are we waiting for?? Lift them now!! Smear tests are cancelled. Cancer treatment is cancelled.

Teachers are petrified. Children are missing out on their education....but also this is going to scar them for life. How are they supposed to understand this?

It's another blow for the millennials, who have already had to cope with the 2008 recession, extortionate university fees, renting their own place (let alone home ownership ) is out of reach, zero hour contracts.

I just don't get why this is going on for so long. Hospitals are empty. Children and young adults are suffering.

I'm suffering too because my mental health treatment has been completely changed. And many other mental health patients will be feeling this. Lives are at risk.

I despair

@Daffodil101
I completely agree with you

It make me rage, hermit.

I don't think the world has gone bonkers at all. Most people have accepted that we're dealing with an incurable illness, and that we have to live differently for a while.
I don't know anyone who is hysterical.

Children aren't having their mental health affected - none that I know anyway. They can't play with their friends - so they are playing with their siblings and their parents . They are learning in a different way, but they are still learning.

It's not the end of the world unless you make it seem that way.

Then this is the thread for you.

And you presumably didn’t see my very upset children this evening.

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@Daffodil101 It make me rage too 😖

But surely these kids don’t have mental health issues?

They are playing with their siblings.

Newsflash - there are some kids who don’t have siblings. They haven’t seen another child for months, mum and dad working, or abusive, you just don’t know.

My godson's pre-school is reopening on 1st June. His mum is so happy and so am I. It will be fantastic for him.

My school is refusing. Because....erm....

I really hope that GP appointments will resume soon too. They say in the media that the NHS/GPs are open.....they are not. It's going to be virtually impossible to get a GP appointment when they finally reopen because of the backlog.

What is the bloody delay?? The NHS has capacity!! Let's get back to normal. Let kids go to school and playgrounds and see the people that matter to them. I miss my godson so much. He misses nursery. We both miss meeting in the park to feed the ducks. I don't know how his mother is explaining this to him. He is only 3 years old.

Well...it won’t get any easier. I have a GP friend with three kids under 7, she’s taken parental leave now indefinitely.

I’ve ditched my NHS job, more or less. Neither of us felt our kids were welcome at school.

NHS workers at home looking after kids doesn’t help.

I completely, 100% agree. I could see the point in a lockdown to begin with but now it's just gone on too long.

@socialhermit I think it must depend on your GP. I've had three appointments and a scan during lockdown

I think that the short term impact on children is going to be minimal. We spent two weeks in quarantine. We couldn’t even open windows for fresh air. The kids are totally fine. What will screw over their generation is the economic impact of this goes on any longer.

I also think that developing countries that have locked down will be judged very harshly. They’re basically starving people to death for no reason.

@stellabelle - well said. I think some people need to learn a bit of resilience, and to pass it onto their children.

Thats true, yes.

It's far too soon to tell but I think most pandemics end up being judged by the number of deaths so I imagine that will be the case with this one too.

What a load of old tosh. The poor, poor children . No wonder we are raising a generation of millennial flowers.

Suffering, my arse. They haven't the faintest clue about suffering. You are enabling, a clueless generation, if you endorse the fact that 8 weeks at home with mum & dad is suffering... unpleasant perhaps.

Lock down hasn't gone on too long,,it has been totally necessary to have these measures taken. All this, has been a totally frightening and huge happening in this country,and worldwide. something that lots of people have never experienced before. All the deaths have been horrendous. all the heartache for thousands of people. It has all been totally shocking, but as far as viruses are concerned, it could have been much worse countrywide. This is why the government.are trying to play safe for everyone,with rules, that lots of people think are crap.

It will depend on the type of person you are, how you will look back on this period in time.

Yes but the original question was more connected to how history will judge it