To have a constant feeling of unease

[Dustballs]

It's to do with the uncertainty of Covid.

But it's also to do with our government and the way we are being managed and manipulated.

Everything they say has an undertone of something. Are we being purposefully confused and led to chaos?

I'm feeling unnerved.

This chaos is nothing to what Brexit will bring us

I know. That's all entwined with the unease. I forgot to add that. Thank you.

Boris will save us all no worries lol.

But honestly the UK is in denial about all this. Many are just jogging along right now. As was intended.

Could be generalised anxiety disorder: www.nhs.uk/conditions/generalised-anxiety-disorder/

I agree with you to some extent. The city centres are unnaturally quiet here in Scotland and in the height of the summer, it felt like if someone attacked you, there was no one to notice. Mainly just slightly dodgy/seedy single men going around rather than the usual office workers/tourists. Horrible atmosphere.

Secondly, I'm dismayed at how quickly and with such little parliamentary debate our human rights continue to be eroded. There is little speculation on long term social problems likely to be caused by this. News seems limited to those items which will keep sufficient numbers of people living in fear. Infection rates are heralded every night on the news but details of hospitalisation remain scant. Little snippets about the magical vaccine cure are given out. It's all very "1984"and obviously bring done to keep public faith in the restrictions, but I don't really think the government (or anyone) knows what's best really. It might be better all round t OK let the virus run its natural course and burn itself out..

I think it would be better to let the virus burn itself too.

I didn't at the beginning - but all the lies and manipulation, as you say the opportunities this virus has given our government to take away our liberties. It's all working for them now rather than us. And it's not doing anything to reduce the effects of the virus either.

But what do you really mean by ‘let the virus burn itself’?

It might be better all round t OK let the virus run its natural course and burn itself out..

Which member of your family do you want to get it first?

I don’t think we’re being purposefully confused. I wonder if that might actually be better, as it would at least imply competence.

What we have here is more like being in the back of a big boat, and the guy driving the boat has great catchphrases but no boat driving license, and he pulls levers with great confidence but everytime he does so the boat sounds like he’s breaking it, plus you’re pretty sure that he’s heading the wrong way and might also be drunk, but you’re too polite (and too near the back of the boat) to say anything. And just as you realise that the boat is headed for a waterfall and you’re going to have to say something, the guy says he’s got a headache and that it’s someone else’s turn to drive anyway. Then he leaps into a lifeboat it turns out he had stashed away and he’s gone, while you’re left adrift heading for a waterfall.

But with a pandemic. And brexit. And economic doom. And a law that says the law is whatever Boris decides it is. Unless it applies to one of his mates in which case it definitely isn’t that and everyone is thick for thinking it was.

I like that analogy @Skysblue

It helps me understand why I might be feeling like this.

Thank you.

And it's not doing anything to reduce the effects of the virus either.

It might if more people actually followed the advice.

We're led by people who don't have a sense of public duty. We're in the middle of a crisis that's obscuring another crisis (Brexit) coming at us. How are we going to cope with both of them?
Who wouldn't feel uneasy?

OP I have sympathy with your sense of unease, but jumping into conspiracy theories and advocating to let it do its worst doesn’t help.

I have a family member who died of Covid—middle aged, otherwise would fully expect to live a long life. Other friends in their 20s who are not recovered months later, still knocked sideways by it.

So feel unease and anxiety, but save the conspiracy theories and stop advocating for 100,000s to die. You wouldn’t want it to be someone from your family.

The virus won't 'burn itself out'. It's endemic. It won't be going anywhere. Vaccines will keep it at bay for a few months before people's immunity wears off.

If it was left to "rip through society" the death toll would be huge, and the TV news would be filled with people dying in hospital doorways because of no beds for the thousands that would need them.

Not worried too much about covid but brexit I am, and for good reason.

I agree with pp who's has suggested that Brexit is going to be a shocker.
Went to Sainsbury's today and went to get loo roll. A lady was replenishing the loo roll section and another lady asked her why there was hardly any loo roll , were people panic buying? The assistant said 'yes, they are.'

Here we go again.

I too fear it's a front for something else. Germanization anyone?

@GetRid

The virus won't 'burn itself out'. It's endemic. It won't be going anywhere. Vaccines will keep it at bay for a few months before people's immunity wears off.

If it was left to "rip through society" the death toll would be huge, and the TV news would be filled with people dying in hospital doorways because of no beds for the thousands that would need them.

Kind of agree with this. We need to learn to live with this virus now. Whatever that looks like at a individual level. I worked in medical research. I never thought there would be a vaccine by summer and neither do i believe there will be one by Christmas. If one does come out, it will post the worse of a second spike.

We are already seeing more cases per day than in the first wave. Tbh I'm really surprised this peak wasnt slower to rise. The only thing we can do is learn to live along this. It wont be the less pandemic we see either.