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What is the point

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RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 08/09/2020 23:15

In living, if we aren't allowed to live.

Human beings are sociable animals. We went into lockdown to save the NHS from being overwhelmed

Yeah, well that happened months ago

I don't see the point in going on any more - government on a power trip. My life curtailed for nothing

Waste of time

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Hont1986 · 08/09/2020 23:16

What particular part of your life is being curtailed?

bloodywhitecat · 08/09/2020 23:17

Life is hard for so many people right now, I think a lot of people feel the way you do. You are not alone Flowers

thenightsky · 08/09/2020 23:19

I was feeling optimistic recently with tiny things coming back - my pilates class, hope of a park run next month, restaurant meals with friends etc.

Now it looks like its been snatched away again. Its doing weird things to my mental health. I've felt really down tonight.

AnneLovesGilbert · 08/09/2020 23:20

You can still see people, just not loads of people at the same time.

NoemiaElara · 08/09/2020 23:21

We went into lockdown to save LIVES not the NHS. It was to equip the NHS with time to figure out how to successfully treat covid, what PPE requirements we will need to protect staff and patients, what protocols are in place to avoid becoming overwhelmed. It isn't about saving the NHS. It never was. It was a buffer to allow time to figure things out!

It didn't happen months ago. It has been happening all this time. It is still happening.

RunningFromInsanity · 08/09/2020 23:21

So dramatic.

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RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 08/09/2020 23:22

@Hont1986

What particular part of your life is being curtailed?
It's not MY life

It's LIFE in general

it can all fuck off now, I've had enough

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Emmelina · 08/09/2020 23:24

Hopefully the lockdown gave the NHS some knowledge of how to deal with it. It is going to hit harder again as winter comes, so not only will the hospitals be busy with the usual winter illnesses they’ll also have COVID patients flooding the hospital.

Thank your stars you’re healthy for now, OP.

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RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 08/09/2020 23:27

Our kids are being fucked

Our older children and young adults are being accused of killing their grandparents

It's their life. They are the important people. If human life is to continue it is them that will be responsible for it

I'm a boomer, I've always kind of understood the meme BUT for fucks sake. I'm still fit and healthy but I have had my teens, my twenties, my family and my owned property.

Not in my name are today's generation getting thrown under the bus.

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Hont1986 · 08/09/2020 23:30

Perhaps "today's generation" don't really mind wearing masks in shops if it curbs a bloody pandemic.

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RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 08/09/2020 23:30

@Emmelina

Hopefully the lockdown gave the NHS some knowledge of how to deal with it. It is going to hit harder again as winter comes, so not only will the hospitals be busy with the usual winter illnesses they’ll also have COVID patients flooding the hospital.

Thank your stars you’re healthy for now, OP.

Fuck that

it isn't the flu but it is no worse than the flu for young people.

People don't live forever

Give me my suicide pills - I'll take them

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LibrariesGiveUsPower · 08/09/2020 23:30

“
Not in my name are today's generation getting thrown under the bus.”

100% agree. Too many people blaming youth and young people. It’s not their fault.

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RealityExistsInTheHumanMind · 08/09/2020 23:31

I don't want to live at the expense of young people giving up living.

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Lovely1a2b3c · 08/09/2020 23:35

Honestly there are always adverse circumstances in people's lives- at least this is one that other people can relate to.

The point of carrying on living is that there are plenty of things to enjoy in life even during full lockdown and we're not in full lockdown at the moment.

At the moment we are actually free to do nearly every normal activity!

Cocomarine · 08/09/2020 23:35

Well, you said “my life”...?
Yes, we’re sociable animals. So if we can’t meet up to pick bugs out of each other’s fur, we congregate virtually on MN.
The situation is not so much that someone in good psychological health should not be able to battle through without talking about suicide pills. I do think you need to get a call arranged with your GP. Don’t feel alone in that Flowers

LoveNote · 08/09/2020 23:37

i work with young people......they all seem very accepting, upbeat and open to change

EveryPlanetHasAYorkshire · 08/09/2020 23:40

@Emmelina

Hopefully the lockdown gave the NHS some knowledge of how to deal with it. It is going to hit harder again as winter comes, so not only will the hospitals be busy with the usual winter illnesses they’ll also have COVID patients flooding the hospital.

Thank your stars you’re healthy for now, OP.

What do you mean by 'healthy'?
Newmumatlast · 08/09/2020 23:40

I dont think you are unreasonable for feeling as you do as this is an odd time and impacts people in doing ways however I don't think its stopping us living and think if you feel as strongly as you do you should speak to your doctor

Whoknowswhocares · 08/09/2020 23:40

@Hont1986

Perhaps "today's generation" don't really mind wearing masks in shops if it curbs a bloody pandemic.
Well if all it took was wearing a mask to curb it, then there would be no need for new measures.

Lockdown has merely kicked the can down the road. As soon as people mix, cases rise.
People can’t stay isolated forever. Businesses being able to operate properly, in person schooling, general life can’t be put off indefinitely, especially for the younger generations who aren’t really at risk.

No idea what the answer is, but certainly the current plan is failing spectacularly all around the world. Let’s all continue to hope a vaccine turns up, but it might not for years if ever.
What’s Plan B?

EveryPlanetHasAYorkshire · 08/09/2020 23:41

I have been awake until the early hours the past few days in tears and wanting to walk down into the city and throw myself off the bridge. Not sure how healthy that is.

Lovely1a2b3c · 08/09/2020 23:41

@LoveNote

i work with young people......they all seem very accepting, upbeat and open to change
Yes and this ^^- if anything younger people are more able to adapt to a change in circumstances and will appreciate it so much more in a year or two when things improve.
Lovely1a2b3c · 08/09/2020 23:44

@EveryPlanetHasAYorkshire

I have been awake until the early hours the past few days in tears and wanting to walk down into the city and throw myself off the bridge. Not sure how healthy that is.
That's awful EveryPlanetHasaYorkshire- definitely look into therapy- some places are only operating online at the moment but you might be able to get in-person therapy in a crisis like this.
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NellePorter · 08/09/2020 23:46

Please get some help OP. The young people I know are coping well.

StoneofDestiny · 08/09/2020 23:46

We are very lucky
Older people in the UK had childhoods/teenage years/ young adulthood blighted by polio, whooping cough, scarlet fever, rickets, diphtheria, typhoid fever, rheumatic fever, tuberculosis, smallpox, German measles, flu epidemics etc etc

We have vaccinations and living conditions that combat many of these things now.

Developing countries still battle with diseases we have vaccines for including battling other viruses and diseases - cholera, yellow fever, Ebola, dengue fever, SARS to name just a few.

Most of us are being temporarily inconvenienced to protect ourselves and others. Those who have died would swap places with us.