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.

Me too.

I know some people are still so worried but the real danger is that a FAR worse zoonotic virus will emerge and people will be so fatigued with restrictions that they will not take restrictions seriously when they are far more important.

Honestly, a lot of time boredom is a cover emotion for anxiety.

Nah. Not in my case. Here, boredom is a cover emotion for irritation, frustration and considerable annoyance.

The boredom here is just pure boredom!

MrsMcMuffins How can you be sure no-one would kill themselves over a facemask?

If a person feels that they can't wear one, but is afraid to go anywhere without...Can't go in a shop, can't go in a garden center, can't even use the toilets in motorway services (that's fun). It starts to feel extremely bleak, and then there are rumours that it may become compulsory everywhere outside your house. I don't have any interest in living in a society that looks like that. On the bad days I think about my get out plan.

I really really hope you are right and no-one would kill themselves for this.

If I hear one more person say solemnly and piously “we are in the middle of a global pandemic” I will scream

Fuck yes! Also as a historian-by-training my personal favourite is "In these unprecedented times..." Not it isn't FFS. It isn't even unprecedented in this century.

The concept of blitz spirit was propaganda.
This article is interesting about it.

www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Blitz-Spirit/

I have spoken to elderly relatives who were actually alive in the 2nd world war and they both said this was worse because of the lack of human contact. Now i am not saying that is true but that is how they felt at that time.
During ww2 people went to the pub a lot, to dances, they engaged in casual sex in a way which hadn't happened before, they married very quickly, they relied on their neighbours and friends and family and clung to each other for support.

We can't do that. We have to stay distant and this is where you get the curtain twitchers watching from a distance for rule breaking.

I worked all through lock down, and continue to work now. I m extremely lucky in that regard. If i didn't have the routine of leaving the house everyday i really don't know what state i would be in.

I had covid very early on in march and was poorly for about a week. Hopefully that will be it for me.

It is shit. My job has changed so much, to something I would never have signed up to. My job is scary due to COVID. My DS lives in a care home so say no more. Because of our jobs DH and I are minimising contacts with family and friends. Not been in a restaurant or done our hobby since March as it's not really allowed in its normal state at the moment. Still, one day it will all be over...

Also "People are dying!" when anyone dares to say that they miss the theatre, their sewing group, seeing their parents or basically anything at all. As though people didn't die before Covid and only die of Covid. I don't buy for a minute that the people saying this have never complained about anything in their lives, or that they go around in mourning clothes never enjoying anything because "People are dying!"

I'm bored of the whole "try telling that to someone who has lost a loved one to covid/ you wouldn't think that if you had lost someone" etc.

No don't tell us what we should be feeling/thinking/saying. I'm sick of masks, social distancing and not having the social life I had before. I'm bored of being told that I shouldn't be feeling that because I "lost a loved one..."

@sweetkitty thank you speaking as a mum of a severely autistic DS (and as a secondary teacher too).

It's all awful. People dying from it is awful. The impact on health services in general is awful. Not being able to see my mum is awful. Not being able to hug my friends is awful. Being worried about risk but not having enough information to compute it is awful. Watching everyone I care about struggle psychologically is awful. Mourning those lost in our circle is awful. Not being able to go to their funerals is awful. There is nothing positive about this. It is just shit.

I don't think any of us who get through it will speak of it with pride - same as people who actually lived through WWII rather than successive generations who rewrote it as a time of plucky derring do, we'll just be glad it's over.

And Kitty O'Meara can fuck right off.

Yeah bored. Thing is bored fed up people are less likely to comply with ever stricter ‘rules’
I’m more annoyed than bored tbh. Annoyed that the rules don’t make sense
My Kids can sit all day in school with 30 other kids but a kick about outside after school isn’t allowed Having one of those friends round to play - nope. Too dangerous
I can treat either of my parents in my dental chair 6 inches from their face but an hour in their house for a cuppa ?- no far too risky
It’s getting ridiculous

Yes!!!!! Kitty O'meara can fuck right off with her mawkish shit!

I agree that boredom is just boredom for me right now. To begin with, even though I turned fifty in the restrictions, I was 100% willing to hunker down and focus on having the health and opportunity to enjoy the decade and not focus on one day. Now though, I am less worried than I was. Obviously. Many things that were planned were cancelled and rescheduled and some were actually cancelled again! I've become more introvert. I can spend an entire weekend listening to podcasts, tidying up, eating, relaxing, bit of shopping and I'm ready for Monday again. But when occasionally I get the urge to do something else, I can't. So it's not anxiety. It is straightforward boredom.

Kitty 'wanker' O'Meara was already "staying home" because she's fucking retired and pulling a hefty pension. Shame she doesn't realise that doing so when you have kids/a job/a mortgage (!) isn't quite the same.

It is definitely boring but I disagree they won’t make exciting films about it. The films will be about the race against time to make a vaccine/people saving lives in ICU (lots of people getting oxygen in the nick of time) interspersed with dramatic shots of empty streets with tumbleweed (or empty crisp packet in the U.K.) blowing through them with ominous music playing, perhaps scared faces peeping out through windows.

Tbh from what I have heard actual wars have long periods of boredom for many people interspersed with the scary, but they don’t bother showing those bits.

@nocoolnamesleft death rate is less than 1% and average age of death is 82. Do you think people should be immortal?

And Shitty O’Meara can definitely fuck right off

[quote Malteserdiet]@Helspopje yes all well and good for you to point that out and I’ve no doubt that working on a covid hospital ward is no fun. However, I would find it just as distressing to work on a children’s cancer ward or on a geriatric end of life care ward and still probably find myself able to be frustrated by their situation or to get fed up by life’s little annoyances at the same time. People are entitled to feel how they feel without anyone suggesting or implying that they are uncaring, flippant arses.[/quote]
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Yeah war for most people is generally: financial insecurity, housing insecurity, rumours, contradictions, lack of meaningful information, short term living, separation, worry about when calamity will hit, loss of agency ... there are lots of parallels. Also things in short supply take on totemic significance, whatever they are. Ours was bog roll. Insert your analogy here.

What I mean is that war is generally worry, discomfort and stasis, for most people, interspersed with bolts from nowhere that the worry, discomfort and stasis doesn't prepare you for anyway.

This graphic from National Geographic magazine (I know, I know!) put the current in to historical context for me.

Height of triangles = number of dead.
Width of triangles at base = number of years pandemic lasted.

We are currently one of those teeny, tiny triangles at the bottom (=1 million deaths).

We need to find a better way to live with this bug while leading more normal lives. Personally, while I hate wearing a mask I do this at work any way, I have found a way to do it without my glasses fogging up too much and I'd prefer to keep wearing masks, social distancing etc if only activities and facilities could be more available again.

I think the current boredom is bordom + fear + a way to cope with this ongoing uncertainty + despondency.

Yep I'm bored too.

Bored of having to tell people to put their masks on at work.

Bored of getting yelled at cos they think I'm accusing them of having covid.

Bored of being stuck doing very little cos you have to book everything now and its just not worth the hassle of running a gauntlet trying to maintain your distance whilst walking somewhere.

Bored of waiting to see what load of bollocks that's gonna get me more abuse at work they come up with next.

Bored of seeing exactly the scenarios that those who question the use of some of the rules play out as predicted . 10pm curfew im looking at you. Cant point out that people will drink in groups before and after they go out as they did when pubs shut at 11. And that they will all now be stood around outside the pubs in large groups at 10 o clock instead of leaving in a trickle from 10 o clock til much much later..

Well guess what I walk past this exact scenario several nights a week. Can I say I told you so without being accused of being responsible for harm.comimg to people for thinking its bollocks.

Bored of idiots witg nothing better to do than police the actions of others .

Bored I am...

It hit me last night that with the Scottish government cancelling the 2021 Nat5 exams for S4s, it means they think that this is going to go until at least May next year. So done with fucking covid 😔

Yep. Bored too. No proper days out, no gym, sick to death of my messy house. Fed up of feeding the children every single meal because they don't have hot school dinners.
Tbh I think I'm mainly fed up of constant meal planning and cooking (lone parent). We used to eat out a couple of times a month to take the edge off.