To really dislike this post about 2020?

[worried23xxx]

I get people are trying to put a positive spin on things but we never 'needed' any of this. Ideally equality should be brought about without somebody being murdered. I think its a very privileged viewpoint to be able to change the way you 'look' at things and convince yourself there is a positive out of this situation. There has been mass suffering death and police brutality. This was not 'needed' and people should be aware of racism and equality without everything going on.

I can't think of one grand purpose of the corona virus either. I don't think some people can accept that sometimes life is unfair and awful and people suffer without it being part of some orchestrated grand plan that will work out in the end. To me if you post this it shows you are privileged enough to not have been directly affected by these things. You are using this awful year as a way to say you have been able to self reflect and go through 'personal growth'.

[AngeloMysterioso]

It’s right up there with that bullshit Kitty O’ Meara “poem”.

[Ugzbugz]

It's like when this all started and the what if comments

What if the world is healing blah blah blah

But its okay to let thousands die, kids lose their education, peoples mental health etc etc

Because the birds are tweeting.

[AtLeastThreeDrinks]

People will try to put a positive spin on anything because the alternative is accepting that life is chaotic, we have no real control and things can be awful.

But, some awful things can catalyse real change, and I suppose that's what she's getting at. This is possibly true for the anti-racism movement, but unlikely true of the pandemic – this government is too focused on getting the economy moving to effect any change in terms of climate change, work-life balance etc.

[HildegardeCrowe]

It’s cringe. 2020 is going to be utter shit for most people. Apart from the privileged, smug, middle-class twats who come up with patronising garbage like that.

[Ylvamoon]

... the only way is forward! Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is the one that I focus on.

[LaurieFairyCake]

I don't read it as middle class bollocks at all

The actual words (not the person who wrote them) talk about going through horrific pain and having to force and make society change

If the black people of America FORCE a change of policy, force masses of Senate enquiries, force JUSTICE through on a massive scale, kick inequity in the fucking face then ALL the deaths of the poor due to Covid, all the job losses, all the tear gas and rubber bullets shot at journalists and demonstrators - well a revolution of thought and action might be needed in America

(Obviously if I think about being white and British sat in my house struggling with my own chronic pain but otherwise safe then it looks a bit trite)

[NietzschePeachPearPlum]

Bloody awful self indulgent twaddle. I find the italicised “forced” particularly patronising.

[PhilCornwall1]

... the only way is forward! Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is the one that I focus on.

When there is even more shit that will happen, because of the shit that happened yesterday...

[hamstersarse]

I hate the assumption that I needed coronavirus to be a decent person and give value to things that erm, have value. I was already appreciative of the things that these fucking idiotic posts are trying to insinuate I was not. And CV is certainly not helping growth - it is limiting in every way

[Immigrantsong]

YANBU , this is the epitome of toxic positivity. Alas, some people like pretending that rolling a turd in glitter makes it a sparkly unicorn, whereas most of us know it is just a sparkly turd.

[SockYarn]

Yeah it's bollocks.

Just like the mum who posted on our school FB group that although her kids weren't learning english, maths or history, they were learning to grow as individuals, share and embrace the silence. not envy

[highmarkingsnowbile]

It's not positive spin, it's passive aggressive shaming bullshit. People didn't need a fucking pandemic that killed hundreds of thousands, to lose their jobs, recession, for the kids to have their lives and education fucked to realise what's valuable. Shitty things are not lessons to the masses, they just are.

[jrb123]

Pretentious drivel!

[Lynda07]

You just have to accept that some are 'glass half full' people and will always strive to find the positives in any situation.

I'm a bit like that. Many years ago me and my family went through a terribly poverty stricken phase, there were times when I could barely scrape together the fare to work and far worse. However I tried to look at the good things we still had, not material obviously, because not to do so would have meant despair for us all. I now look back on that time as a learning curve but certainly would not to return to it!

Of course lockdown has been far worse for some than others, we all know that. However it isn't going to last forever, is already easing (maybe too soon and too much but that's another story), and out of a lifetime, not many months. My worry now is for those who have lost their livelihoods and who have health problems which have been neglected during the crisis, never mind another recession. Yet we have come back from things before and will again.

[Crunchymum]

@PhilCornwall1

Why aren't you able to speak to your specialist?

Both myself (arthritis) and my disabled child have been able to speak to whose we need to / get our med's / have our appointments by phone or Zoom.

[NameChangedToProtect1]

Hi OP, the post whilst a bit gushy isn't minimising anything. By that logic no one could tell a joke, send best wishes or in anyway talk about future plans. I think you have to grow a thicker skin really!

[WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo]

I'll tell that to the people queuing for the foodbank near my house yesterday in a queue so long it almost reached fully round the block.

Mind you I don't think their kids will be doing much growing, mentally or otherwise with only hunger to look forward to and having to share one phone between 3 kids to do their homework. 🙄

[worried23xxx]

@LaurieFairyCake that change should be happening anyway the only change that has happened is that the police officer has been arrested which is a direct consequence of him killing. There have been protests before since the 60s and we are still no further and someone’s life shouldn’t be sacrificed just to encourage a societal turning point that won’t take society far enough in terms of day to day racism that black people experience.

[YinuCeatleAyru]

YANBU and it's not the first time I have seen things like this. Some people have no understanding of the suffering of others and think that the worst of the impact of this pandemic is that one has to queue a little before one can get into Waitrose. It's infuriating.

[WhatWouldYouDoWhatWouldJesusDo]

Oh and the poor families living in bedsits and hotel rooms. Bet they're really growing. 🙄

Not to mention families struggling to contain people who have MH issues and disabilities safely. My son's specialist provision which offers boarding facilities has taken at least two kids (( just in his year )) as full time residents because their families were pushed to the brink.

Twee shit like the above makes me cringe. 😣

[randomsabreuse]

There's a possible thought that we (the English speaking west) needed something to shock us out of our complacency -

The assumption that the 9-5 in the office (plus staying late doing sod all to look good) is the way it should be.

The idea that hot desking in an office is a good money saving thing.

The idea that a deal can only be done in person so companies spend £1000s plus just to send someone to a 1 hour meeting the other side of the world.

The idea that the US Legal and Penitentiary system (Justice is not the word I want at the moment) was working ok.

The idea that the US Constitution, Government and Electoral system are fit for purpose...

The events of 2020 so far have hopefully highlighted to the comfortable and apathetic that things need to change.

Climate Change (wildfires vs much clearer skies in Lockdown)
An end to presenteeism (possibly the biggest problem for working parents)
The Citizen's income becoming more mainstream
How broken society in the USA curre

[LydiaDusbyn]

To these people who have quietly "transformed" under the hush of lockdown, gaining a new sense of zen and rejecting the old world the virus came here to cleanse... Can I ask you all please NOT to come to the pubs when they reopen? I want a G&T with some friends again and because of social distancing we will need the space. Ta.

[megletthesecond]

It's a bit wanky.

My life is on hold, kids aren't sleeping and the house is a tip.

[LydiaDusbyn]

@megletthesecond

It's a bit wanky.

My life is on hold, kids aren't sleeping and the house is a tip.

I'm with you there sister. The manic cleaning petered out halfway through the second week.

[derxa]

t's all just been endless little screens of people in masks waving, obeying the rules, being so happy. Yes, it's been a very middle class lockdown. I'm not surprised it's ending in fury and violence. Yes TV coverage has been all very twee. We don't see people who live in dirty and squalid accommodation just endless fucking bookcases.