Did covid screw anyone else's life up?

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Interested to hear on this as I have been reading a thread where people loved the solidarity of it all. For me it was redundancy, house lost, business lost and savings...

My problems seem minor in comparison to so many others and I send you all my best wishes and hope life improves for you and yours in every way.

I guess I'm older than most on here (Gransnet's not for me). We didn't lose our home but we pretty much lost our way of life. We had lots of friends and entertained quite a bit and that all seems to have ended and the aging process seems to have accelerated. My DH is older than me and has developed dementia so I'm realising that those lost years were the last years of freedom or happiness for us.
I also didn't see my small GSs for three years (they live abroad) and they don't really know me.

Thank you. It is funny how people worry what others are doing and it is such a short time ago that most of us were in masks so I can't imagine it looks that odd. Not going to chance it anyway.

Find it odd this thread has been used to try and vindicate the idea lockdown was a terrible mistake. 130,000 excess deaths from March 2020 December 2021. The only mistake was it was enacted far too late, given the scenes we saw in Italy. Do people honestly think it wouldn’t have been far,far more without lockdown and the vaccines?

We’ve all had enough of people choosing to judge others, as this thread shows, so please just bugger off. Stop perpetuating division.

(And I say that as someone who is not antivaxx and who is vaccinated).

Maybe people need to wake up and get angry at China. Who, let’s face it, haven’t even the decency to acknowledge that they were the cause of this Pandemic and are being protected by the woke liberal elites including the press who skirt over this issue for fear of being racist. Billions wasted, millions dead and god knows how many suffering and they walk right away from it without any kind of reckoning.

at the very least western tech firms need to pull their business and put it elsewhere, Apple have started to do this moving some it India, more should follow.

Yes couldn’t do my job as a night nanny going into different peoples homes Big loss financially Son got wrong diagnosis with his mental health as all over the phone still not right

Do people honestly think it wouldn’t have been far,far more without lockdown and the vaccines?

You are conflating two things. I don’t think anyone on this thread has said things wouldn’t have been worse without vaccines. But I - like many - feel that some of the lockdown measures were for show rather than effect, and that the negative effects that the measures did have were not adequately assessed or recognised.

Agree. We didn’t have lockdown and in the end didn’t do worse than other countries with lockdown. But, noone were to know that in the beginning.

Lost friendships and my uncle passed away from it, and today husband has announced he wants a divorce, I’m broken,he won’t talk to me, we’ve argued a lot recently but were trying to work through it, I don’t know how I’m going to cope

Find it odd this thread has been used to try and vindicate the idea lockdown was a terrible mistake. 130,000 excess deaths from March 2020 December 2021. The only mistake was it was enacted far too late, given the scenes we saw in Italy. Do people honestly think it wouldn’t have been far,far more without lockdown and the vaccines?

I find it inherently suspect the way you throw vaccines in there at the end, as though lockdown and vaccines aren't two very different things.

I was with depression at the end of 2019 and the lockdown made things worse. My manager used my depression and lockdown to berate my work, in a company I worked as a senior for over 5 years and loved by my previous superiors. Well he forced me to leave. I started to believe in every word he said when he was berating me and this put me down so much that I had to move city in order to recover. I’m getting there with a new job and new friends but has been a long very path.

Yes. Had covid badly just before the first lockdown, and have not got back to my pre-covid levels of fitness/health. Constantly tired, keep being ill. Pissed off.

Yup, absolutely ruined me. Lost thousands, lost family, friends, had a bit of a breakdown, never felt so alone and miserable in my life, and honestly I resent anyone who enjoyed it because it just feels unfair that some had such a horrendous time while others had a jolly.

How does that fit with what we saw in Italy? Calling it flu doesn't change anythng, the 1918 flu epidemic resulted in many many times more deaths than flu normally does but it was just flu.

Agree with most comments about how badly people were affected. This was the side that was never acknowledged at the time - that the mitigation might do more harm than the disease. My personal experience is that I know far more people badly affected by mitigation than by covid. IMO there is a lot more harm to come.
Is it any consolation to people if the harm is caused by well-intentioned (?) mitigation rather than a mindless virus?
To me, it does explain why some people resent those who still take covid precautions. It's not that there is anything wrong with wearing a mask, avoiding crowds or whatever, but it seems to represent support for the fearmongers, the mitigation measures and the media who pushed the government into bad actions.

Because it’s invariably the same people claiming both are useless, covid is some great reset hoax nonsense, no worse than the flu zzzzzzzz. We didn’t have vaccines at the start for an entirely new virus, and a properly imposed lockdown would have saved thousands more, the half measures we got late in the day still will have saved large numbers. Honestly can’t be bothered even getting into this though. People still don’t get it and never will.

7 people at my husband's funeral, the very same day they had a party in Downing Street
#thatwasshit

I think this is the key. Any doctor, disease control expert or journalist who attempted to suggest that we needed to look at the measures being taken and make sure there was a balance between stopping the spread of the virus and other intended harms was decried as a Covid-denier.

I’m so sorry. I’m in exactly the same situation, DD13 has anorexia. It’s absolute hell. X

100% yes! Life was going well, settled in my job of many years, looking to buy a better house in an 2020 then covid struck. Put on furlough for months on end, then made redundant. As I am in my early 50s companies just didnt want to know me. Struggling to get back on my feet, a lot of my savings gone on paying my mortgage as a single person - worse thing that ever happened to me.

No it isn't. You're just wrong there. MN has had a cohort who are pro vaccination and lockdown questioning for quite some time now.

And the time to decide you couldn't be bothered was before you decided to conflate the two. It's quite obvious why this sudden ennui only developed once people called you on your nonsense.

I feel like the impact it's had on my DD and other students who lived through it has been unforgivably enormous... she has not learnt the lessons of how to "adult" because they learnt they had to stay at home and isolate themselves. She now stays in her room and doesn't socialise. She communicates via tiktoks. I have feared for her life more than once recently. My heart is broken.

Indeed and even now, some people respond to any questions about their lockdown beliefs with something in that vein. See the recent antivaxer claim.

Is that what you took from the thread? It's been a poignant thread where people have finally been able and permitted to share their personal costs, many of which are utterly heartbreaking. There was so much suffering in silence until now.