How bloody weird is the world right now???

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I'm watching something on telly pre feckin virus.

I just reminds me of normality, of normal times.

This all feels like a bad dream that goes on and on and on....

Feckin hate it.

Yup. I agree

Me too.

I wish all the bullshit would just go anyway and everyone would get on with it. I'd rather take my chances.

IKEA was so ridiculous today, queue to get in, queue for the lift, queue to book a restaurant table which wouldn't be available for an hour and a half...

I want to return to pre covid life. When life was normal. And I moaned like f**k and had no bloody clue.

It's very disorienting

I'm genuinely having a 'we're in the Matrix' persistent thought as life is so bloody odd

I know. It’s like a never ending nightmare. I’d also take my chances but I can’t risk it because I have vulnerable family members and a job that means I come into contact with vulnerable people.

Yes I get that too. I can't imagine dancing in a busy club or squeezing on to the underground in rush hour. I understand the reasons why we can't do it though.

It’s utterly bizarre.

I saw a jokey article recently which was a copy of those warning of and complaining about fake news but this one was saying real news must be clearly labelled to differentiate it from satire. It was so accurate it made me quite sad
I have to be honest it's not affecting me as much as many people because I live a very quiet life anyway but even I would like it over with asap

I thought that driving past through town today. It's just all weird. People standing about not sure what they should do, businesses trying out new ways, young and old in masks.

Yes I agree. I've started reading a lot again and keep catching myself going how are you allowed to do that? Like if they go to a party or out to theatre etc. Weird. All so strange.

I was thinking today that it’s lucky I’m an antisocial bugger that doesn’t work at the moment. It’s not affected us hugely except cancel big events that we go to but that can wait. I do wonder just how it can be so unfair that it’s destroying people’s health and livelihoods and some people are relatively unaffected.

I keep tutting at people on tv standing too close!

So freaking crazy. Global pandemic with nations going in and out of lockdown, a madman running one of the worlds ex-greatest nations, climate crisis, crazy weather and chaos, protests (some justifiable) and riots everywhere. It is mad.

Once this is over I am not going to take anything for granted again.

Last year I was freaking out about the scenes in the Handmaid’s Tale where the women had their mouths covered and just the scenes where the world the characters lived in changed overnight and they all had to comply. All the side issues like problems with food and medicine shortages etc. It was a frightening world and I remember thinking “what if this all happened now to us?” I totally thought I’d rebel.

I totally conform to this new normal with wearing masks happily, social distancing etc. I definitely feel like this isn’t real and I’m having a weird dystopian nightmare.

I went to get my own prescription from the chemist at the end of the road for the first time since March. Very odd seeing people, apart from those in hospital. All I've done is wfh, sit on my butt and have operations.

Back to the workplace next Saturday and I'm already peed off at the thought of getting up at 0530, instead of falling down the stairs and into my chair at 0650. Be nicer than my lonely living room when I'm on nights though.

The weekend before lockdown I had everyone in my house, parents,kids & their partners. A few days later that was it. Then I got the dire warning letter of death.

On the plus side though, I have a very healthy bank balance and most of my Xmas shopping done.

It is weird. I've generally handled my Covid world okay but my DM died earlier this year as has my dear friend's son and my ndn. I think all the Covid stuff hasn't allowed me to process my grief properly and all of a sudden I feel so shocked about it all. I try to protect my vulnerable relative because I can't bear the thought of losing anyone else I love.

It’s weird. I’ve got through a lot of this time, lockdown etc reasonably ok because DH has been fortunate enough to be going out to work as normal. Yes the kids have been off but they’re older and have just got on with things and then got out when lockdown was eased. I’m a real homebody anyway, I work from home and the only thing that changed was my exercise classes went onto Zoom.

But in the last couple of weeks since mask wearing became pretty much mandatory, that’s when it’s felt unreal. I live in a really small town where everyone know everyone. And struggling to recognise who is saying hello to me in the street has thrown me.

I was watching something on tv the other day when they showed a flashback to Boris’ big lockdown speech, the one where he said ‘you must stay at home’. Totally unnerving to look back at what we’ve been through.

Yep

When I watch shows such as Selling Sunset I think you don’t know it yet but it will change soon, and also think when was this filmed.

We went out to lunch today and the high street was so busy. But then there’s general feeling of what’s next, feels weird. Plus family are in a zero Covid place and the difference is stark (and borders shut).

It feels like a surreal bad dream. I want my old normal back.
DH said earlier that soon I'll be back to my Sunday evening routine of ironing the school uniforms. It feels like a lifetime ago I was ironing uniforms on a Sunday night whilst watching Dancing On Ice where the audience was all packed in together, people were skating together, judges sitting together.... How was that the same year as this utter shitshow.

Yes, whenever I watch anything on TV (fiction or documentary), the "normality" spooks me. This pandemic business really is grievious. I'm hopeful within a year or two, normality will make a come back, but I dread the coming winter. The schooling situation in particular really fills me with dread (otherwise, work from home and Internet order would mostly feel fine...)

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It is weird. I've generally handled my Covid world okay but my DM died earlier this year as has my dear friend's son and my ndn. I think all the Covid stuff hasn't allowed me to process my grief properly and all of a sudden I feel so shocked about it all. I try to protect my vulnerable relative because I can't bear the thought of losing anyone else I love.

The strange way that death has been dealt with has been the worst thing for me. My Gran had a 15- minute funeral with 6 people attending and no readings or speeches... I couldn't go. It's a strange thing when you look at everything else that's happening too...

Reading this reminds me why we must continue to see mask wearing as incongruous, unnatural. It's unnerving seeing how people have slipped this new fashion into their lives, almost unquestioningly. What will they accept next? Where does this lead?

I loved early lockdown, end of international flights etc (avoiding to think too hard about others less fortunately placed than myself, selfishly). But now? This is a pile of shit. Masks are not stopping corona (flu is a bigger killer than covid at this moment). Yet we all must participate in this theatre?