To wonder why people aren’t more angry?

[Rainbowb]

Throughout this whole crisis I have really been surprised by the level of acceptance from everyone in this country of the whole situation. I know we haven’t had much choice in the decisions made and we’re probably a very polite nation as a whole but we have been so quick to accept the arrival of a deadly virus and drastic changes to our lives, seemingly without complaint. Is no-one out there demanding to know how on earth this was all able to happen? We’ve faced the huge loss of human life worldwide and it is continuing, surely we are all entitled to get angry and demand answers? I see grieving families, children missing out on being with other children and not having an education, families being separated indefinitely, people’s mental health suffering and vulnerable people potentially at risk and I feel so frustrated and angry. If we got fired up about climate change, why not this??

I suppose a big thing for me not getting angry is because..it’s not really any one individual’s fault? Yes there is some controversy about how it started, but patient zero never could’ve imagined this would happen, or the way it rippled through the world.

I do think there should be anger at the governments across the world who were lax in their actions once the scale of it was understood. But otherwise I think people get on with it because they have to, a virus is not a sentient being with intent, so it’s not something that can be blamed in the same way as an individual.

Right now probably is t the time for anger. Anger leads to poor decision making and generally is just another symptom of the crisis. We need to deal with the issues at hand right now and there will be plenty of time for answers later - because, frankly, it won’t change anything right now.

I’m angry at China and I believe in the long term our country needs to respond appropriately to what they’ve done to us. I’m not angry at our own government, it’s not their fault.

Because whats the point? What is it going to change? I think I have been lucky so far in my life (early 20s) that this is the biggest challenge I've faced, to stay inside and sit on my phone. Yes I want answers in the future but it's not the time right now

The lack of preparation is this governments fault.

Angry at who? Do you want to see more racist abuse of people who look Chinese?

seemingly without complaint

I dunno, I've seen lots of complaining.

Me. But I'm being angry quietly at home

What's the point in being angry? What difference will it make except for making yourself more angry and less happy?

The british are angry at another country causing them pain and anguish and loss of freedom and decimating the economy??
Oh the irony.

I am angry it’s got to this point... but the anger won’t achieve anything. The anger is really frustration and worry now.

Rather than anger, I’m surprised more people are not challenging the information they are being fed.

We’ve all just laid down and accepted it. Worldwide. Even in countries and cultures that protest readily.

I find that really strange.

Our whole world, our customs and relationships, livelihoods, habits, even religions, all stopped without our input on the matter.

On an ordinary day people hop up and down about the timing of bin collections and want vote after vote about comparatively minor changes to the functions in our lives, yet we’ve all just handed over our free will no questions asked.

It’s weird.

Why the necessity to blame? No one has escaped this. Hopefully lessons learned etc. I'm not wasting any energy getting angry.

We only know about very small percentage of viruses.

Anger as an emotional response does nothing to solve a scientific problem. Are you shouting at the virus, the global population and world leaders.

You might need help with your approach to life generally.

Being angry isn’t going to change a thing. It will just make us more depressed.

I can't let myself. For the sake of my own fragile mental health, I just can't. The news today almost tipped me, but I had to switch it off, watch something else, and pretend everything was fine.

I'm autistic, and have a tendency to fixate. I just have to distance myself.

People are furious though. If will come out. Everybody is limited in their ability to do anything atm. It'll come.

I am angry and disgusted, I can't pinpoint exactly how or why but along with fear and the immense feeling of losing everything I worked hard for during my entire life I am absolutely helpless and that angers me most of all.

People seem to be resigned to it somehow, and as with many things, sheep like in behaviour. It surprises me in a way that no-one has started riots at the loss of freedom, income, human rights. Instead of anger it is mostly compliance and minor rule breaking.

Yes I am angry, very angry, because I am terrified, not for my health, I qualify for a test, if I want one, but for the future, the economy, anger at the delays that made things worse than they had to be, the losses.

Personally, it makes perfect sense to me that this has happened. Its nature, a virus mutated and was able to cross into another species. No one could have know how bad it would have been and we kind of had to wait and see. Now we know how bad it is and you'd have to be stupid to object to the current measures. Not a thing has surprised me or made me want fo blame anyone. I'm proud of our country and how we're handling it as a whole. Yes, not everyone's perfect, I'm getting annoyed at some people who are still working and getting jealous of the praise NHS workers are getting. But on the most part, we've been very calm and sensible.

@WhenItIsOver I agree. Sheep like.

Zero point in anger. Doesn’t change anything does it? Just makes everyone feel even more shit.

You might as well be angry with gravity.

This is a brand new virus with so many unknowns. A slight variation on any working figure will extrapolate to thousands and thousands of cases when scaled up to population level. Then think of all the data points they are working off. All of them approximations, all of them subject to revision..

I'm not in the UK myself. But all governments are facing the same decisions. Based on incomplete data, some decisions will turn out to be right, others wrong.

Hindsight will turn out to be 20:20, as ever.

@Naithnira Sorry, are you calling for a war?!

Being angry won't achieve anything. I'm frustrated at the number of people who don't take social distancing seriously. I'm sad for everyone who has lost anyone close to them, sad that people are losing jobs, sad for children who can't play with their friends, sad for all the students who have had to cut short their education.

Basically sad for anyone whose life has been negatively affected by this shitstorm.

I rarely get angry. I can still be pissed off with the situation.

On an ordinary day people hop up and down about the timing of bin collections

And this is why you don’t consult the population when it comes to a crisis. You bring in the people who are paid to make the decisions and trust that they will do their best - these are elected politicians and I may not have voted for them or like them but a huge number of people did vote for them. I hope the new leader of the opposition is as robust as he appears and asks the right questions at the appropriate time.