Do you wonder WTAF?!

[Nikhedonia]

WTAF is going on at the minute, CoronaVirus, Donald Trump, the fact we still need to be told via protest that Black Lives Matter, seriously WTAF is happening in the world at the moment?!

I don't think I'll articulate this well, but I sometimes just think that this is a very weird time to be be alive. There's so much of it that is almost difficult to comprehend.

It all started with the financial crash. Rather than address inequality and moral corruption after that (greed of bankers and making the 1% pay), the poor were made to pay through austerity.

That took mental gymnastics and viciousness. Brexit and the current terrible government are just a few steps from there. We've stepped away from truth and rationality.

Brexit has barely even got going yet, we've left in name only.

No.

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I spent 2019 having therapy for OCD based on impending doom.
Turns out I wasn't nuts grin"

I don't know whether to laugh or sympathise :)

The madeleine mccann thing was very strange. I'd thought about her earlier that day and thought they'd find a new suspect, so when the breaking news popped up on my phone I knew what it was going to say before I opened it.
Very odd. Never happened to me before.

@Pelleas. We’ve had locusts too, country in Africa, Chad maybe. So that’s the trifecta; fire, flood, pestilence and a pandemic just to keep things interesting.

The asteroid will miss. Yellowstone is right here though.

I said to my dad the other day can you imagine being a pub last year and a man saying.
I'm telling ya now one day you'll be told by the government you can't go out!, you'll even have to queue to go in Asda. It'll be mad!. We'd have looked at him like are you taking the piss? How many drinks you had mate 😳.

I'm the same, if I think too much about what is happening and what .might happen it blows my mind. So I dont! I'm living day by day or week by week. Im on furlough (only heard it on Veep before this) and don't know when I'll be working again, can't plan much and now the weather is looking wet all week so i can even dry my washing outside.

We are taking loads of photos & videos and done a bit of a time capsule because this is a moment in history that will be talked about for years to come.

From the truly world breaking to the weird and funny, 2020 has had it all

Fire - Australia, Chernobyl and Brazil
Plague - Coronavirus everywhere and a recent resurgence of Ebola in DR Congo
Locusts - Africa, Pakistan and India
Drought - Water shortages affecting UK due to low rainfall
Incompetent governments - Mexico, USA, UK, Brazil, India, Iran
monkey wars, a goat invasion and scientists getting high from penguin poo
Cicadas - Good luck USA
A howling bridge

Some truly appalling incidents of cruelty to and killing of elephants across the world - don't Google if you're easily upset Horrendous domestic abuse incidents - again, don't Google if you're easily upset Food parcels delivered by charities in what is supposed to be one of the leading world economies

I have no second language skills, decreasing physical ability and no higher qualifications worth a damn, so emigration is not on the cards.

I'm stuck here with Boris.

Anyone with the ability to emigrate to Australia, New Zealand or anywhere with a competent government, needs to go if they can find work, because fuck it, it's only going to get worse.

I can only wait for the next round of 2020 Bonkers Bingo to start....Eyes DOWN!

It keeps crossing my mind that it's some weird apocalyptic type shit too.

But then I think when my gran was my age, most of the men were sent away for years on end to die in fields in France, food was rationed, children were sent away from their parents in larger cities, bombs fell night after night, and systems of mass murder were developed to gas millions of people just for their beliefs. So my gran probably felt the same while all that was going on.

Twenty years before that men were sent away for years on end to fight a war that was nothing to do with them. It was a war like people had never seen before as weapons were being developed far beyond what had previously been used. When the survivors returned they were met by a virus that killed millions and particularly targeted the young. So my great gran probably had feelings of wft is going on too.

Jewish people surviving in concentration camps for years probably thought similar.

Black people in SA who found themselves becoming slowly segregated in their own country while also suffering poverty, disease and violence probably felt similar.

People in Bosnia, Croatia etc who saw their previously peaceful cities torn apart by war probably felt similar.

People who've suffered famines in North Korea, Ethiopia, Russia, Ireland etc probably felt the same.

I think we're just so used to seeing shit like this on the news happening to other people or learning about it as something that used to happen. This is one of the first times it's affected the majority of us in the UK and it's scary.

I don't know if it just makes it all the weirder but I've moved beyond this feeling now to be in a place where this just feels like normal life.

It’s not going to get better though is it? Population getting bigger, land mass globally getting smaller as waters rise. Climate change causing more extreme weather. More people packed together alongside wildlife causing more transmittable diseases. You may as well add in an asteroid as at least it will get it all over quickly.

StealthPolarBear either is fine

Oh god please don’t talk about asteroids or I’ll never sleep again.

These crazy times we're experiencing makes all the Brexit stuff seem like it was a toddlers dust up in a preschool sandpit.

Yes, and it also seems like such a long time ago. A distant memory. But I'm sure as soon as the pandemic is over, Brexit will be back on the agenda.

Brexit is on the agenda but people are distracted. The other day the chief EU negotiator made a speech about the lack of progress and bad faith of UK negotiations. By the time people are able to take notice again we will already be up to our necks in a 'no deal' mess.

I voted leave but now I want to stay, is there any way this can be changed?

Sorry not my vote personally, lol, but the whole Brexit situ?

Trouble is Inappropriatefemale Johnson was elected on a Brexit mandate so he's going to plough on regardless, even if it means a total mess, so he can tell people he 'done' Brexit.

He's already saying that he wants to change the 'oven-ready' deal he constantly trumpeted about and the EU are really getting pissed off with the lack of any progress. It's obvious his government will be as incompetent and deceitful about Brexit and they are about the Virus and everything else.

But I certainly think you're not alone in changing your mind, if that's any consolation.

I once joked that Trump being elected as president and Boris as PM must have meant the end is nigh. All feels a bit like it is at times. But I’m sure in a few years it’ll just be one of those things we look back on and say ‘do you remember when’.

Thanks, I do feel like shit with my vote and I voted for all the wrong reasons, the truth is is that I honestly don’t know enough about politics to really see what all the many issues are but I feel I was being patriotic more than anything, I know that’s pathetic but there it is.

Sorry, Inappropriatefemale, we’re fucked. And we’re going to be experiencing the fall out in poorer living standard, poorer environmental standards, and job security for decades. Even Jacob Rees Mogg said it would take 50 years to get us back to the standards we are today. Obviously it’s ok for him as he can live off his off-shore millions.
The rest of us have to suck it up.

Also know you’re not alone. Many people feel the same way as you

www.remainernow.com/

I just think that we need to stop it and if Boris wasn’t so egotistical, like many of the male politicians, then he would see that we’re fucked too and pull out.

There are so many stories that are good and bad on either side and I don’t know what to believe.