I am so fucking bored with covid

[Prettybluepigeons]

If we all survive this, when people talk about it in the future, I will say " it was so fucking boring "

All anyone talks about is covid . Alm that us on the news us covid. Can't go to the theatre because covid. Gigs? No covid.
Restaurants are dodgy. Pubs are dodgy. Seeing family and friends is forbidden. It is all so bloody dull.

Plus the smell. Hand sanitizer and disinfectant everywhere. Yuck.

to people who are grieving and having that made worse by all the restrictions.
to those who are unemployed especially because of the situation which makes finding another role far, far harder.
to those who have been overloaded without chance to unwind and process recent months.

I appreciate that I am fortunate not to have incurred major life changes through this, but my feelings of boredom are real human feelings and as valid as any other emotion. When I stopped working (child with some ANs who doesn't cope with wrap around care), I filled my life with things like supporting in his school, being a regular parkrun volunteer, scouting/ guiding and running races for my own gratification. I had a sense of purpose and community and that was stolen from me for 6 months. I've only got one of those back, but at least the school run now means that I know what day of the week it is rather than living a seamless string of late 80s Sundays with all the ways to relieve that boredom being prohibited.

I used to craft, then I had children and lost my space and headspace for them years ago.
I used to enjoy cooking until it turned into Can't Eat, Won't Eat with allergies, intolerances and sensory issues.
I've walked and ran and walked and ran and walked and ran.

I never got to ask my Granddad about his war experiences because 15 years before I was born, the final strand of him broke and he was found with his head in the oven. I guess he should have been more resilliant

Boredom is real. Boredom is valid. Fortunately I'm not in a care home dying of boredom and lonliness.
But I am bored nonetheless.

@Crunchymum so sorry for your loss xxx

Aragog you are right, of course we moan.

Even the chimpanzees in our local zoo were bored when no visitors came. They had to invent things to do for them.

And our greataunt in her 90ties and waiting to die from heart failiure is bored sitting in her nursing home protected from c.

I feel the same, I spend more time cleaning my classroom than teaching in it (and no I can’t get the children to do it severely autistic so any kind of social distancing is impossible too). All their good activities are gone and we are basically confined to the classroom and a bit of the playground. They desperately need school as respite for their parents too.

I have a history PhD (thesis was on a particular aspect of European history immediately post-WWI) and I find people telling us to all "Get a grip like they did in the War" incredibly bizarre. Want to know what would've actually mystified people in the past about 2020? The idea of shutting down the world in response to a virus as historically 'mild' as Covid - up until quite recently such a virus would barely even have registered, because its 'target' demography would've long since passed away from other things. Re Covid, we're essentially living with the consequences of our historically unprecedented ability to keep quite frail people alive for a very long time....and also probably the consequences of relatively widespread obesity, which REALLY wasn't an issue historically.

And yes, and its like all the joy has been sucked out of life.

It's not just the U.K. complaining about the situation!

God no. I'm Irish & everyone I know there is just as worn down with it all. Likewise friends in other countries. I just don't see any non-authoritarian country maintaining heavy restrictions much into next year, whatever happens with the virus.

[quote MrsMcMuffins]@TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross, but we are all bored of Covid. We have to grow some resilience though and also pass that on to our children. Shopping with a mask on and using hand gel for a short period of time in our lives is really not a big deal unless you make it into one. Aren’t the Brits supposed to have this Blitz spirit you always speak of? 😂[/quote]
Blitz spirit relies on people being able to support and comfort one another. I can guarantee you there would have been a lot less blitz spirit if neighbours had to distance 2m from one another and you couldn't spend time with your family.

It's a fucking stupid comparison and I'm sick and tired of hearing it.

I am mighty bored of all the bollocks and hyperbole.

Lets not forget that there were many times during WW2 that people were raging at the government and the war, in almost open revolt and opening booing both the royal family and Winston Churchill (who was voted out the instant elections were reinstated). Police with truncheons beating civilians out of makeshift shelters when there weren't any other safe options available to citizens being crushed, torn apart and burned to death as they slept. Widespread talk that we would "of course" lose the war. Widespread growing support for communism in some areas - fortunately Hitler attacked the USSR so local communists turned to our own (now) allied war effort. Phew.

The blitz spirit really wasn't what it's colloquially remembered as.

Oh and post war the UK was BAF (broke and fucked).

Cool, let's do that again.

@TrustTheGeneGenie, it’s the Brits themselves who always go on about their Blitz spirit though isn’t it? Keep calm and carry on
The Blitz spirit is just a myth isn’t it. Plenty more people were isolated from their family during the war including their children.
Still think wearing a mask during shopping really isn’t a biggie in the grand scheme of things.
Job losses are biggies of course!

People in my home country are moaning, moaning, MOANING - and that was before Covid . Now there is no stopping them, in spite of the fact that their numbers are vastly better than ours.

I said this in February and I am still saying it now: I do not fully understand why this particular virus as evoke the worldwide government responses it had and I am not sure whether it is because either a. it is a complete overreaction, or b. I am not really getting the consequences if it was left unchecked.

Re feeling bored or despondent or fed up or full of Kampfgeist and resilience: it is entirely possible for human beings to feel different things, sometimes even at the same time. We all feel whatever we have to feel. It is certainly impossible to always be positive about what is objectively a shit situation.

So here's to walks in in countryside and crafting and decluttering and Zoom and just carrying on carrying on.
I have to say I am quite glad that I am naturally not a hugger and not a goer-outer, my main worries are my elderly parents and what the future holds for my teenaged kids.

it’s the Brits themselves who always go on about their Blitz spirit though isn’t it? Keep calm and carry onwink

Ahh. So you think because a subsection of MN talked about it on the Brexit threads that it’s the same people posting on this thread?

They wouldn’t have needed a ‘keep calm and carry on’ campaign if everyone was already keeping calm and carrying on.

[quote MrsMcMuffins]@TrustTheGeneGenie, it’s the Brits themselves who always go on about their Blitz spirit though isn’t it? Keep calm and carry on
The Blitz spirit is just a myth isn’t it. Plenty more people were isolated from their family during the war including their children.
Still think wearing a mask during shopping really isn’t a biggie in the grand scheme of things.
Job losses are biggies of course![/quote]
I could get through worse with the support of family, sure.

But the difference is we can't have the "blitz spirit" because it involves other people.

I'm glad you don't think it's a Biggie, tell that to everyone who already has, and in future will kill themselves over this. Will harm themselves. Will end up depressed, anxious, Ill. I'm sure that'll really help them.

You know what bores me the most? People who think that no one should have feelings different to theirs or that just because they are having a lovely time they can't imagine how other people's situation might be different.

You are not allowed to be bored or have a little moan because people had it worse in the war.
Your not allowed to be sad and worried that you lost your job because you could be working on a Covid ward.
It's so tedious.
People are allowed to feel how they feel.

My mum worked on a Covid ward all through lockdown and it was so quiet they were getting sent home early every day because they had nothing to do. They spent most of their time munching on the mountain of food that people had donated to them.
So yes I think someone who has lost their job might be very grateful to work there.

The thought that Britains are the only people moaning and that everyone else in the world is just happily getting on with it without a problem is quite frankly just ridiculous.

That’s the other thing... I’m bored but not necessary because I have more ‘free time’ than usual that I can fill with wholesome hobbies.

Yes, same here. I’m either working or trying to entertain children (they’re currently hitting each other with cushions so that should last another three minutes until someone starts yelling, success!)

Yes we can go out for autumn walks and look at the trees changing colour and splash in puddles and bake cakes. And we do. Again and again and again and again...

@Nikhedonia

What I hate more is the constant responses from people chastising those who say they feel bored of Covid-19.

People can be both aware of the need to stay safe but also be really bored of the intrusion of the virus in our daily lives.

People are allowed to be annoyed, grumpy, upset, frustrated or whatever else, FFS.

God this, a hundred times over.

It all so fucking brain numbingly tedious. Arbitrary rules enforced haphazardly. I've just taken my kid to a swimming lesson this morning and come out determined to cancel them. It's so fucking irritating to walk into a gym, be subjected to temperature check, have to write down my contact details despite the fact that they HAVE MY FUCKING CONTACT DETAILS BECAUSE I BOOKED THE LESSON WITH THEM, prompted to wear my mask whilst surrounded by gym members who don't wear masks as they are on gym equipment, kids have to arrive in kit and leave wet, stupid pointless one way system which sees us walk through far more of the gym and pool area than we need to TWICE, teachers some wearing masks some not.

It's the arbitrary enforcement of the arbitrary rules that really gets me. And if I want to be irritated by it, I fucking will. AND FUCKING AM. It doesn't mean I am a COVID denier

@TrustTheGeneGenie, no one kills themselves over having to wear a mask or having to use sanitisers. Letting Covid rip through the population is honestly not going to improve people’s mental health.

Also, there is no evidence that people are getting it more than once. I've had it, I'm no danger to anyone. Fuck off and leave me alone with your bloody reminders about wearing a mask.

Before anyone starts, I wear one. I just fucking hate it.

Letting Covid rip through the population is honestly not going to improve people’s mental health.

No it’s not, but what’s that got to do with acknowledging that the current situation is rubbish? We don’t have to pretend we’re all loving this, it’s not like the virus is listening.

[quote MrsMcMuffins]@TrustTheGeneGenie, no one kills themselves over having to wear a mask or having to use sanitisers. Letting Covid rip through the population is honestly not going to improve people’s mental health.[/quote]
Who has said we should be letting Covid rip through the population? .
People are just saying they’re bored. Some are depressed. Some are very depressed. Haven’t seen anyone saying we should let it rip through everyone, unless Ive missed it?

With you. Everything is so BORING.

Work is the busiest it's ever been, but sitting in my living room for the 7th month now without the support and friendship of my colleagues and general kitchen chit chat is BORING.

No gigs, theatre, holidays BORING

Turning 30 in a pandemic BORING. Couldn't even have a meal with my immediate family because too many households. Even the meal with my sister was dull as fuck with no music and atmosphere.

Shopping is BORING with all the arrows and sanitiser and the fact that customer service seems to have well and truly gone in the bin.

5 months away from my wedding and we can't plan anything because who knows if we will be allowed to get married with our friends and families there, let a lone have any music. BORING.

The only good thing of all the boredom is that DP got so bored he finally agreed to getting a kitten just for something Not Boring for a while.

DP is in the military and is due to go away AGAIN within the next two weeks or so so life is about to get EVEN MORE BORING as I go to not seeing another human being for days on end.

BORING BORING BORING.

We don’t have to pretend we’re all loving this, it’s not like the virus is listening

Ah you’re wrong. If you wear a mask uncomplainingly the virus stays away. If you moan about wearing one it infiltrates your mask and infects you. Everyone knows that!

RightOnTheEdge Well said, your post is spot on. My former colleagues from an urgent care centre were being hailed as NHS heroes, but in reality they had never had it so good. As you said, mountains of food and other gifts were arriving at the hospital but the number of patients attending was minimal.