To worry about the psychological impact of covid guilt

[SquashedSpring]

I think people should be sticking to the rules and trying their utmost not to spread covid, but I'm really concerned by the way individuals are being told that if they do slip up, or make a decision that may or may not be within the guidance, that they are responsible for countless deaths. Tellingly, I feel the need to add that I haven't come close to breaking any rules or slipping up, so this isn't about me.

My beloved Grandmother died of norovirus, which she obviously caught from someone, but although it is frowned upon to send children back into school or to return to work while potentially still infectious, I've never heard anyone being accused of killing people for doing so.

Same with flu, tens of thousands of people die every year from it, but I have never heard it said that those deaths are the fault of whoever infected them.

I undestand that social pressure/shaming/guilt is used to ensure that individuals act for the greater good, but I am becoming really concerned about the effects of guilt on both the short and long term mental health of everyone right now. AIBU?

“ If you genuinely don't think that your behaviour is potentially harming anyone else, then their words are presumably water off a duck's back.”

no one has accused me personally of anything. It doesn’t stop me not wanting to be part of a society that thinks it is acceptable to be irrational judgemental shamers accusing people of thought-murder because they have considered sending their child back to school, or are musing about going on holiday in several months’ time, or are pottering around a legally open garden centre.

Well yes, your examples are all bonkers and the accuser is quite mad.

I think countries such as Sweden and Holland might have better mental health after this.