Anyone still suffering lockdown fallout?

[EmmaEmerald]

I don’t want to tag any of the original people who helped me out a lot as I know this thread will attract a lot of nasty folk

but every so often I feel absolutely in shock still at how the fallout goes on.

suppose I’m seeking reassurance it won’t be like this forever but it might be, I guess.

@Greensleevevssnotnose , it's obvious from OP's posts that this was not the case for her, but it didn't stop you from using an opportunity to have a stealth boast, did it.

Its hard to tell without details. My life is back to normal. Both children in school. Work as normal. I'm happy to go out and socalise and travel. There would have to be fool proof evidence, not scare mongering for me to ever isolate, mask wear, home school, or not travel.

I appreciate for some that the risks were much higher, but for the majority this simply wasn't the case and the fall out of the the restrictions were far greater than the risk of getting Covid.

I think it's interesting how little anyone I know talks about it. I don't know whether people are traumatised by it or embarrassed tbh.
I don't because I don't have anything to talk about. I don't think it's had any impact. Any time it has come up in conversation it's just been a brief "yeah, that was pretty weird".

Currently got a big work project related to it which is a ton of admin but other than that I don't have anything. Definitely not traumatised or embarrassed.

I think wistfully back to ‘pre covid’ days.
DH is terminally ill, but we have already lost so much. My MH has been in tatters and we have had no life since lockdown.
What a waste of 4 years. The last 4 years of his life.
I work, but don’t see anyone socially, people drifted. I’m dealing with the slow death of my DH pretty much alone.

It can be nostalgia, grief, heartbreak, sense of loss, missing something or someone, or a combination of those.
I forgot homesickness.

That's not so say I'm dismissing Covid. I know for some it has been an awful illness that has killed, and changed lives for ever. My ex-husband was very ill (hospitilised) with Covid, and for this reason I still test the children if they show symptoms, but he doesn't isolate or follow any other restrictions now.

A friend lost her brother to Covid. A youngish man (early 40s) with a wife and two young children. Her family is in her home country, and she couldn't travel back to be with them or attend the funeral.
She'll never get over the loss.

There is indeed.

Some people were damaged by the pandemic response, as distinct from the pandemic. This is a completely separate issue to whether one happens to believe the pandemic response was our best option.

My DH has a terminal lung/heart condition from Covid. We live in semi lockdown because any infection could be his last. He was a double vacinated, healthy, non smoker.

I do feel that young people have been particularly badly affected though.

We had to lockdown because we didn't have vaccines

I read that after Spanish flu there was the " great forgetting" when people didn't talk about the pandemic

Before people jump on here I am not a lockdown lover it damaged my mental health and one of my children's and my mother is now a recluse

And getting covid has damaged my physical health

We had to lockdown because we didn't have vaccines

Of course we did!

I think life is permanently changed for the majority of people. Some young people have bounced back but there are a lot more struggling with mental health and problems at school. Most teachers I speak to say this.
For office workers, working life is completely different with WFH, which is good for some and bad for others.
Other things that are not generally discussed. Many groups/activities for pensioners closed for good so more loneliness.
Financial fall out for those unable to work in lockdown. I know one person who has become an alcoholic due to their strugges in lockdown.
Building work that would have been affordable and was put on hold with covid, is no longer affordable.
All these issues are in addition to the loss of so many lives.

It still impacts on my friendships and family relations, insomuch as some of those relationships haven't recovered to the same closeness we once had.

It pisses me off greatly that the enquiry has focussed, virtually in its entirety, on covid harms and not the harms caused by the extreme, and often it would seem nonsensical, response to covid.

Its horrific to think government would impose the same restrictions again, indeed they'd probably impose harsher restrictions! I'm in Scotland, and its become clear scotgov based most of their response on opinion polls 😠

Edited to say, thanks to the great gov imposed shift to WFH, my husband now WFH on a full time basis. I love my husband dearly, however I seriously resent the WFH dynamic - I much preferred him going in to the office!

Yes a lot of family relationships and friendships aren't as close and people seem to be less sociable

It always surprises me how bad people who think lockdown was needed are at acknowledging the downsides of it. Personally I'm sitting on the fence picking splinters out of my arse, but if you're someone who's sufficiently convinced it was the right response that you're posting in internet discussions about it, this is not the best way to make your case.

I actually think if we do ever want it to be an option in future pandemics, which obviously not everyone does, the best way to achieve that is to accept that it caused a lot of suffering and come up with ways to mitigate that in future lockdowns. Though I know some people think the 2020 and 2021 lockdowns were right but are opposed to it happening again, so there's that.

The government want the tills ringing so they won't acknowledge the fall out of it all

My ex partner father of my children couldn't cope with strict draconian lockdowns and his allready fragile severe mental health issues,

Cause of the sheer loneliness of it all,
not being able to go out all he essentially toke his own life by not eating properly

Meanwhile Boris Johnson and his cronies a few of them behind Lockdowns break their own lockdown rules created by them,

and allow the idea of huge ⚽️ football match to go ahead in between lockdowns,

but people were only allowed very limited family's and friends to attend funerals ect..

I know it's the past,

I suspose the awareness of mental psychological well being has been emphasised cause of the pandemic of covid so only glimmer of light from that is society is so much aware of the general importance of this and the effect of all kinds of traumas can have on people and the ramifications on society such as with drink and drugs issues and crime issues
Unresolved traumas..

Obviously comes a time when individuals have to also take responsibilities for healing from stuff like that too..

Hmm. DH died during lockdown (and quite possibly because of it as he was unable to access treatment early enough / was sent home from hospital too soon / the paramedics weren't able to come in quickly enough during his cardiac arrest etc) but I feel there's not much point dwelling on it. Yes, my life has changed completely. But that happens all the time and can be caused by all manner of events. You just have to get on with things and find joy where you can.

There are a lot of very sad things on here ,hugs to people

Jings 😔
No words enough - just wanted to acknowledge your plight, and give you the biggest virtual hug 💛

No we didn’t. There was absolutely no guarantee that a successful vaccine would ever be created. If there was no vaccine then would we have been in lockdown forever? Even the vaccines that we do have are pretty ineffective and have their own proven, dangerous side effects. Lockdown was a political decision which seemed to be based on calculations on the back of a fag packet, if the current enquiry is anything to go by.

Ah, so you think we should not have had lockdown and just let the bodies pile up?