Did covid screw anyone else's life up?

[girlmeetsboy]

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...

Yeah, we were doing well before Covid. We had money in the bank, great credit scores, and were really working on the future. Now, not so much. We pretty much used all of our savings over the last 2 years until my hubby was able to get back to work. Then in the middle of that, the house that we had been renting for 16 years, sold, so we had to scramble to find a place to live that we could afford, and one that accepted dogs. We had to pack up and move 16 years worth of our lives in a space of 4 months. Also, during the move, my son and I both caught Covid, so of course we couldn't hire anyone to move our things, nor could we ask friends to help, at the risk of exposing them, so it was just the 4 of us having to move EVERYTHING WHILE 2 of us were sick. It was MISERABLE!

It took 3 of the 4 months we had, to even FIND a place, which left us with 30 days to move all of that stuff, and moving while being sick with Covid was no joke!! It is now a year later, and we are still BARELY making it. I am grateful to be alive, but still...that one thing was life altering and devastating. My health issues have gotten to the point where I am unable to work now at all, which means I am unable to contribute financially at this point, and that makes me very sad. I'm not sure if things will ever go back to being normal for us, but I just keep praying that it will. At least we are not on the street.....yet.

So you’re pro vaccine but anti lockdown. Against any form of lockdown? Even prior to there being any vaccines and people were faced with an entirely novel virus?

Except right from the very start they did look at balancing them out. Whether or not they got it right in every case is a separate question, but they definitely looked at it. Otherwise kids known to be vulnerable would not have been able to be in school (they were), and people would not have been allowed into family members' homes for essential caring duties (they always were, right from the start), for instance.

On MN there was endless discussion from the start about which measures were necessary and what the side-effects would be on here from a very early day - proper discussion, too, not this story people like to tell now of a few brave Galileos questioning lockdowns in the face of a mass belief that lockdown was wonderful. That's just not what happened.

So you’re pro vaccine but anti lockdown. Against any form of lockdown? Even prior to there being any vaccines and people were faced with an entirely novel virus?

Why do you think lockdown questioning is the same as anti lockdown? Your understanding of the views held by the group you object to is very poor.

Presumably you can be 100% pro-all-the-lockdowns, and still think there’s a place for a thread like this on which people acknowledge the effects of lockdowns, as well as other things.

For what it's worth I think most people probably just presume you are immuno compromised or being extra cautious - that's what I think when I see someone in a mask.

Presumably you can be 100% pro-all-the-lockdowns, and still think there’s a place for a thread like this on which people acknowledge the effects of lockdowns, as well as other things.

That would appear far too nuanced an approach for some people to be capable of comprehending.

Trying hard not to be rude to you hear, but maybe read the room?

Thank you and much love to you, I really didn't mean for it to be a poor me financial situation but unfortunately it is for me but reading about MH and children suicidal has literally broken my heart. Love to you too xxx

I can't pinpoint a specific thing but I don't feel I'll ever be the same person I was before covid. Work was horrendous as it was all from home, I had massive responsibility linked to the covid response all while scared for vulnerable family members. Never want to be in that position again and I've not got back my work enthusiasm since.

I do think lockdowns were needed though. Without lockdowns I'm sure we'd have had a much much worse situation. Our hospitals weren't equipped or ready for a pandemic.

Theres alot about the covid response of the govt that I think was criminally negligent but I do think the public health officials were doing and advising the best they could.

I see this thread as a place for people to talk about the damage. It was silenced before.

The arguments re whether the response was right can only be had if people are free to say how it impacted them.

markhemming
Reported your fake news.

The impact of lockdown was brutal for many and will be felt for years to come.

so sorry to hear what a terrible time many of you had.

I didn’t actually mind the isolation too much (being an introvert).. but lockdown did cost me my dream job, which I started not long before covid started. It definitely negatively effected DD for a while , but we are finally getting back on track. She found the first year back at school very tough, and many of the children in her class displayed terrible behaviour.

Worst off all my grandma died of covid in her nursing home, and we couldn’t even attend her funeral to say goodbye.

i have friends who have lost multiple family members to either covid, or cancers that weren’t treated during covid. Terrible.

I'm sure some people thought that I was probably immuno compromised, other took a second look and rolled their eyes. As with everything it varies.

Lockdown itself was ok, took away the pressure of everyday life, but still struggling to get going again….anxiety at its worst, moods up and down at the flick of a switch, different groups of friends and family not gone back to what we used to do, events not taking place. Life feels a bit lonely at the moment.

Cost me my job. Got fairly used to it otherwise - which worried me!

Yes, covid affected our lives immensely we lost our business (wasn’t eligible for financial help) we’ve spent the majority of our savings on retraining and trying to establish another company. My daughters mental health has suffered, as has mine. A year on and I’m only just feeling a little more on an even keel.

I had to give birth to DC1 with no birthing partner with one midwife in head to foot PPE.

I didn't have Covid and wasn't even a close contact but this was deemed necessary by the trust.

DC needed to be resuscitated. Awful.

I'm so sorry that this Covid crap has lost you your house OP. I hope things improve for you. Covid certainly screwed up my life. I retired in 2016 and retrained as an English language teacher. I got a part-time job at a language school literally around the corner from where I live. It turned into my dream job. If course Covid closed the school and they went bust. I've lost my confidence, mental health has taken a big downturn. But what can we do! Big hugs 🤗

Can completely relate to this. Struggling to get back to where I was pre Covid.

This thread has broken my heart. So much suffering. I’m so sorry.

I spent my pregnancy in isolation and then developed debilitating PND once my dd was born in June 2020. I nearly didn’t make it. I hung on by a thread through the lockdowns with my newborn. I so wish I could go back in time and let my mum and mil be a support to me when I so desperately needed them.

Sending 💐to all those who experienced loss in so many forms x

It has never really been silenced has it? People have been debating all this from the start.

This thread was good when people were just telling all their stories - all our stories. It got a bit derailed into people cherry-picking stories they like so they can make sweeping statements about what they think should have been done or not done (and how they were the only brave ones to say anything blah blah blah). So much rewriting of history.

I'm so very glad you made it.

This was me too.

The HV was non existent and so was any PND support until I was in crisis. I don't remember much of the first year of DC and I have huge guilt.

Redundancy and relative who has a disability that was a direct result of not being treated in time due to hospital beds taken by covid patients.