Wishing I hadn't read Sky News tonight - feeling scared and anxious.

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About half an hour ago I clicked onto Sky News to check what's going on in the world - only to see a very depressing and frightening headline about how Omicron will cause 75,000 deaths and that Plan C will soon be in place. Just what I needed to see before bedtime

Now I feel very worried and frightened - perhaps that's what Sky News want people to feel, but I've really had enough now of the constant doom and gloom

I hear you OP. Feels as if we're waiting on tenterhooks for the lockdown announcement.

Boris' update , tonight, will tighten things up but I feel pretty sure that many will carry on regardless due to the government's disregard of the law last Christmas.

@Bookridden

I hear you OP. Feels as if we're waiting on tenterhooks for the lockdown announcement.

Thanks @Bookridden , I am really feeling quite scared now and for a moment in tonight's announcement really thought he was going to announce another lockdown.

Now I just need to try and bring forward my booster which is booked for early January, but unsurprisingly there is a queue online...

@Hospedia

Why if its meant to be milder will there be so many deaths-i dont get this prediction at all

I think the forecasts are based on the severity being mid-range because it hasn't been going around in high enough numbers yet for then to know with certainty that it is milder.

There is also the fact that more cases will equal more deaths, even if only 1% of people were to die if you have 10,000,000 cases then that's 100,000 people.

except it was never as high as even 1% at it's worse, before we had any preventative measures or treatment.

Obviously even a tiny % can be a lot of people if the numbers are high enough but they don't warrant the media deliberately spreading panic with clickbait headlines that don't add up.

We didn't come anyway near as bad as even the 'best' case scenario that was being painted about Delta and this, according to everything we do know so far, spreads more easily but is milder.

Thousands of people in the UK die of flu every year. People, including children, also die every year from complications arising from the common cold.

Covid can be a nasty disease but for the majority of even vulnerable people it is not.

Take whatever precautions you feel you need to to keep you and your family safe. AND then save your worrying for things you can do something about.

And although more restrictions can be brought in to force financial ruin on more people, no one I know of gives a shiny shit about any legal requirements about how many people we can see in our home any more. The government has no moral right to mandate on that any more (if they ever did) - and I'm damn sure the police have realised there is very little they can (or on the whole want to) do any more.

Take it up with Bozza and his cabinet of clowns.

@BrightonOrLancaster

Just chill. Here's a blurry pic of my cat this evening. Think like an animal. Animals aren't informed. They live in the moment and adapt as things happen. Dont forget that what you cant control is pointless worrying about.

Thìs is one beautiful cat!