To feel like we are just existing now

[Ghostlyglow]

In a miserable, joyless world of queues and masks. A couple of friends have lost their jobs this week. Where are we going with this?When will it end?

Regretful123
I've lived in worse situations with no money . I was physically unwell a few years ago for two years, lost my job, my private rented flat and had to live in a homeless hostel for two years while coping with a very painful illness that took me two years to recover from and I had very little money because the dwp gave me the bare minimum...as you know the dwp do not great the sick and disabled well!!! So I know all about going through difficult times. I'm fully recovered now and I cherish every pain free day so this lockdown is a little inconvenience and yes it's not nice to not have much money. I lost my job through the Lockdown in April...I still think I'm lucky to live in a country with a welfare state and the moany minies on here need to get a more positive outlook...

I still think I'm lucky to live in a country with a welfare state and the moany minies on here need to get a more positive outlook..

So how exactly do you think this welfare state will be funded in the future? You are on another planet frankly

@ConstantlySeekingHappiness
“I wonder if you’d feel different if you’d lost someone”
I have and no I wouldn’t feel different, I wake I look after my kids, clean cook shout and end every day feeling shitty and like I’m failing. And I’ve also had Covid so can 💯 say this is now worse

@Taliya so you can speak for all the Nepalese people right?

Teateaandmoretea
Stop being so melodramatic for God's sake. Seriously, you just have to cope and get on with it like millions on this planet have to do. I'm not commenting on this OP anymore...I've made my points. Life is not easy or a barell of laughs sometimes, you just have to be positive and appreciate the small things in your life and get through it. Exercise is free and takes you out of your mental worrying...that helps. I'm not for or against the Lockdown ...You have to just cope with what life throws at you, what's the alternative.

Bye then @Taliya

Tobee
Stop being so self indulgent and actually read what I've written, take some of it in and may be learn something.

Byeeee tobeee.

Yeah, I agree with you OP.

I was shocked this story didn’t get more attention. Along with everything else, is this really a price we as a society are willing to pay to protect ourselves from a fancy flu virus? I just don’t understand.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-52773344

@taliya you are the one being melodramatic not me.

Read what I've written @Taliya . Maybe you could answer my previous question about my husband? Is he being self indulgent too?

@ConstantlySeekingHappiness
It's nothing to do with people not wanting to spend time doing things with their children. They have lost interest in life. I don't have a job anymore, there's nothing to look forward to. Every day it rains is devastating because it's bloody miserable, I have to spend money I don't have on the tumble drier and the only thing left to do in life is go for a walk which is pretty bloody miserable in the rain. DD's school sets more or less no work, there's no curriculum guidance so have to trawl through the internet trying to work out what she should be doing and create work. Yes, I do resent doing her teachers fucking job whilst she blogs about baking and having all this time to read books on her full salary. If I didn't have a child and pets I'd have ended it all by now, because I do not believe that this is better than death.

@SudokuBook I could completely agree with you that it is tokenism
@thegreenlight I am nearly 50 and I am like you - I don't want "a new normal"

I don't want "a new normal"

There’s nothing normal about the new normal

The press love alliteration. Crap and Boring Normal won't work.

More like ‘completely unrealistic vision of future society’

Can someone tell me why the new normal isn't going to be anything like normal? It looks pretty normal already where I am!

Where do you live @ItsSpittingEverybodyIn? because it's not normal where I am.

Nor here, I need to move.

Public transport is practically forbidden, nothing is open, you have to queue to get into a fucking supermarket, nothing is open, cafes are takeaway and you have to sit on a bench in, even when you meet up with a friend you can’t hug them, wfh is seemingly permanent, dc have no school or clubs and can’t go out and play with all their mates. Nothing remotely normal about any of it!

We all feel the same. I just don't think about it.

I'm taking this time to be glad I'm not spending constantly and to improve my finances and I actually hope we stay in lockdown until August.

I think we should have a mandatory lockdown every year for 3 months.

Nox
Wow, a mandatory lockdown every year for 3 months.
There’s a thought and a half...

Nox, I have had no income for four months now, thanks to the bastarding lockdown. I hope never to have a single second more of lockdown ever again once this one is over.

Tea, same here. Where I live is a shadow of itself.

How can anyone say it's "normal" when off the top of my head none of the following are open:

bars
restaurants
cafes and coffee shops
clubs
museums and galleries
theatres and cinemas
shops - except in N Ireland
swimming pools and gyms
hairdressers, barbers, beauty salons
schools (!)
dentists
soft play centres, playgrounds
airports
huge amount of people working from home

And in the places which ARE open, people have to stand 2m apart, speak to staff members behind plastic screens and wear masks.

Totally and utterly normal.

I think we should have a mandatory lockdown every year for 3 months

Any particular reason....?

I have no faith in the government and just worried about what the hell is going to happen to the economy. Does anyone really want to go shopping next week? I’m worried sick about my kids - one is year 10 and going back to school next week for 4 hours a week. He is worried about his GCSEs next year. My youngest is Year 7 - when the hell is he going back to school? My eldest (17) was trying to get an apprenticeship- not much chance of that. It is all so shit. I am desperate to go back to restaurants/travel etc but how is it going to be possible with the current outlook. Same with hairdressers, beauticians - I feel so sorry for all these businesses that will fail. Existing is not living - I totally understand how people are struggling with mental health.