Corona fatigue

[VivienScott]

I’m just fed up of it all really.
Constant news headlines, half my friends banging on that we’ll all die because everyone is going out and being “SO BLOODY SELFISH” (Their caps, not mine). The other half banging on “WE HAVE TO WORK!” Accusations of “middle class privilege”, “cats can pass it on to you”, “no they can’t”, “my child is too precious to sacrifice on your educational corona alter”, “my child needs education”, “I need a haircut”.
This constant oneupmanship of who is suffering more, who is the most virtuous, sacrificing the most, is exhausting.
And ultimately, I actually feel I don’t care anymore. I’ll avoid getting it, passing it on as much as I can. But what will be will be, I can’t control it, I’m just exhausted of trying to or being told I should.

stop reading social media
Stop watching the news (except for the update, what can I do today bojo, bit)

...and things will feel..

Just as fucking shit really...

DP has been working throughout the whole thing, with 2 work colleagues, and returns home with a fat smile on his face as nothing has changed for him and continues to badger me about "what have you done today/are you ok?/you don't look very happy?!"

What an utter twonk. No, mate. I've been sat in the house without leaving for over 72 hours and the best thing I could find to do was almost 8 hours of playing the Sims4, which quite frankly I would have never have done 7 weeks ago.

Nice to hear everyone is just as fed up.
If i could go to a restaurant for a meal today, I bloody would.

I wouldn't mind so much if it made sense but it doesn't.

So I can meet in a park etc. as long as I keep the distance, but I can't keep my distance and meet my own parents in their own back garden? In my case, I would not have to go through the house to get to it but, even if I did I still don't get it.

If my parent's required cleaners or carers they ARE allowed in the house, though I'm not? A carer by definition normally has to be very close to the person and touch them. I would be sitting about ten feet away on the sofa and wouldn't have to go near them.

So if I am cleaner or carer for my parents I CAN go in the house?
But as I am neither, I can't?

I'm sorry - this really does not make any sense to me.

The sense is to reduce total number of contacts so work before family has been chosen as the best for the long term, especially keeping economy going

Meeting up with Single people is a good explicit exception because they can experience greatest isolation

Families in gardens....provided they don't tramp through the house, go to the loo, share a cuppa, have a quick hug from the kids....spend all day rather than half and hour ....the temptations are higher......but it would be very unlikely that the police would bother with a family group seated well apart in a garden

You have been asked to apply common sense.

You FUCK OFF. Why should i be forced to isolate indoors because you can't give a fuck about anyone else but yourself

Yet you're happy for others to be forced to stay inside because of the effect it may have on you if they don't.

Well this is going well.

I am totally with the OP.

I'm following the guidelines as closely as possible, but it is really getting tedious now. Especially with the virtue signalling shit.

I’m done with it too OP. I’m on several family group chats and whenever I try to swing the conversation round to anything but this virus I get ignored so everyone can get back to Boris/Nicola bashing or whatever else floats their boat.

This is a hard concept for some to grasp

I don't want anyone to be locked in their homes for a long time, but I do want people to be mostly stuck at home for a short while so that everyone can then get out and about

And when people are out and about, i think they should all accept some restrictions, so that everybody has the same ability to get out and about.

I'd like that freedom to be available to the shielded also. Which means a longer lockdown than would be necessary if it was just the vulnerable I was bothered about.

It's called being fair. It's called balancing my needs and wants with those of other people.

So no, not lockdown till vaccine, but not a free for all either.

Is it right to have a longer lockdown with a bigger economic fallout and thousands, possibly millions more pushed into poverty just so a minority of vulnerable/shielded don't feel left out?

I'd dare say the suffering and deaths from the economic fallout will far outweigh those of CV as it is, it will be horrendous if the lockdowns last longer than absolutely necessary.

Yes, it is right if the effects of a divided society lead to greater problems than are caused by a couple of extra weeks lockdown . The more divided a society the more unstable it is.

And to be blunt, if you have 20% of the population unable to rejoin society for a year or more, and another 20% unwilling because of a less rational fear, the economy isn't going to recover as well as it would if that 40% of the population was going to cafes and getting their hair cut . If you lose half the market until we get a vaccine you will lose a lot of businesses

So you need those people in society spending money

I am utterly sick of it too. Life is losing meaning for me now, I have seen no one at all except my DP for 2 months and people in the supermarket. And I am luckier that some for actually having a DP I live with. I miss my family and friends, going to work, going out to literally anywhere but Asda.

The black dog has reared it's head again for the first time in 5 years thanks to lockdown. So no, YANBU. I feel you.