Apologies, big rant inbound to get a few things off my chest in a safe space...
We moved to mainland Europe over the summer, which was made insanely difficult by the covid shenanigans but was at least something to aim at and look forward to during lockdown in the UK. Just as we moved cases started to rise and they introduced wearing masks in shops. Now it is fucking ridiculous and we have to wear masks nearly everywhere, even outside at the side of the rugby pitch and whilst walking down near empty streets. I can’t tell you how much I hate it or how I secretly hoped that by moving here I was moving to a country that is generally known for sticking its fingers up at authority and infringes on Liberty. However, it seems dementors still outweigh the rational people here and there is no end in sight. In fact there is an air of panic and a sense that lockdown won’t be accepted again so all they can do is keep adding more places where you have to wear a pointless mask. The lack of a goal or an end date or even just some basic common sense kicking in is absolutely doing my head in. I have always considered myself quite lucky mental health wise but at the moment I just feel angry and frustrated all the time and it is effecting my happiness and relationship with my husband and children (to a smaller degree). I am trying to just ignore it all to help manage my mental health but as soon as I leave the house here, it’s in my face and totally unavoidable. To make matters worse, my 12 year old has to wear a mask from 08.30-4pm with only a break for lunch while he’s eating. Everyday he is coming out of school with a headache and feeling sick and there is nothing i can do. We’ve tried 5 different types of mask and they all eventually cause discomfort because of the ludicrous amount of time he has to wear it. I tried putting that issue on a thread about masks and someone told me that he just sounds ill and that it won’t be the mask causing it!! Why are people so desperate to support these pointless pieces of fabric that do nothing?
It’s true what someone upthread said, if you don’t like your job you can leave, if you don’t like a friend you can distance yourself but you can’t escape this thing and it seems to be taking so long for people to wake up. Why does everyone want it to go on forever? The dementors say, oh but the restrictions so far have helped suppress the numbers and now selfish people, daring to try and get on with their lives a bit and decide on their own risk, are causing cases to rise again so we just reintroduce restrictions. But why can they not see that we will be in a never ending cycle of that because the fucking virus isn’t going anywhere and if we can’t get protect against a common flu virus then I sure have little hope that we will ever be able to eradicate an ever evolving coronavirus. Who wants to live their lives like that indefinitely? I just can’t understand it and it just adds to my anger!! Expressing that kind of view anywhere else but here and I am labelled a conspiracy theorist and anti vaxxer- ffs. So had enough of it all.