To really despise all the CV19 memes springing up on FB again?

[friedshrimp]

"Buy condoms so you don't breed more idiots"
"Its your fault if there's no Christmas, not the governments - 10 week warning!!!!"

I've lost count of how many people I've unfollowed this week....

Yeah very annoying especially the one about it not being ghe governments fault!

Another one that pisses me off is the people that say the hospitals are empty!
My local certainly isnt, while a&e is quieter than normal the wards are still full! My wife has been working on a covid ward the last week, its just full of older people, they are essentially there to die, my wife says its fucking awful, they are literally there to hild there hands as they die

I really hate the 'don't blame the government!' one. Just what the government wants, the general public fighting/blaming/telling on each other. Distracts from what an absolute shambles they've made of the whole situation.

Slightly related but I also hate the influx of lockdown/virus themed Christmas decorations. Father Christmas in a facemask, a bauble to commemorate 'the year of lockdown' anyone? 🙄

Why complain about FB on MN?

If Facebook is pushing you off, deactivate your account. Many of us live full lives without it 🤷🏻‍♀️

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants

Why complain about FB on MN?

If Facebook is pushing you off, deactivate your account. Many of us live full lives without it 🤷🏻‍♀️

Because I was wondering if these memes were springing up on everyone else's timeline? Surely that's quite obvious from my post?

I don't want to deactivate my FB account, I am simply tired of the CV19 memes - again, as per my original post.

@Squirrelblanket

I really hate the 'don't blame the government!' one. Just what the government wants, the general public fighting/blaming/telling on each other. Distracts from what an absolute shambles they've made of the whole situation.

Slightly related but I also hate the influx of lockdown/virus themed Christmas decorations. Father Christmas in a facemask, a bauble to commemorate 'the year of lockdown' anyone? 🙄

I wondered how long those kind of marketplace items would take to appear!!

Oooh is Anne Frank back yet? Or the Despairing Giant Doctor? Or "There's a Bed for You in ICU?" I guess it makes a change from Poppy Policing or whatever they're normally droning about in November

Stay on Facebook, but just snooze or unfollow the worst offenders? Luckily most of my friends are pretty sane, but Facebook Covid crap gets an instant thirty-day snooze in this household, with a permanent unfollow for the second offence . The exception to this is a married couple I vaguely know, one of them is vocally Team Lockdown Forever while the other is noisily Team Covid? What Covid? DH and I watch their competing feeds like a soap opera.

Slightly related but I also hate the influx of lockdown/virus themed Christmas decorations

Ugh no, kill it with fire!!!!! Seriously who the hell wants to commemorate this shitty year?

You could just leave Facebook.

I've lopped off any last remaining Sun-reading, Boris-supporting, extreme-right idiots from my timeline.

That's why I dont have Facebook...that doesn't stop people sending me " helpful " posts they have seen . Give me strength.

Seriously who the hell wants to commemorate this shitty year?

In fifty years' time, people will commemorate it like they commemorate the world wars.

Those who are young enough to be grandparent-age by the time we have a new post-Covid generation will talk about 'during lockdown' to the younger ones who will no doubt have a history project about the Coronavirus years.

@nosswith

You could just leave Facebook.

I think you are misunderstanding. The OP is not objecting to Facebook in general, just the Covid memes that sometimes come across mixed with everything else in her feed. It’s like reading a newspaper — there are certain columnists and features I don’t enjoy but I’m not going to stop buying the whole paper. Do you understand now? I can see how if you’ve not been on Facebook it would be confusing but I’m sure you’re not trying to be one of those “I’m so above social media” types. You’re welcome.

@WitchesSpelleas I have a history PhD so, yes, I do know about commemoration, although I genuinely doubt that people will still be commemorating Covid in fifty years' time. Its not even remotely comparable to events such as the World Wars. The Spanish Flu was much more devastating and was still pushed to the margins of the collective memory quite quickly. Its more that Christmas tat is presumably meant to remember happy things? But then poppy tat is a thing, so who knows?

I genuinely doubt that people will still be commemorating Covid in fifty years' time

Sadly I'll be dead by then or I'd offer you a wager that they will. People have recorded every detail of their Covid experience on social media, blogs, their own cameras etc. Spanish Flu was sandwiched between two World Wars, whereas Covid has struck following a long period with no such worldwide disruption - it's the biggest event of many people's lifetimes. In an era where people celebrate what they had for breakfast seven years ago because it's popped up on their Facebook timeline, Coronavirus won't be forgotten.

I prefer it to poppy fuckery - that seems to get more dramatic each year. Hopefully by this time next year covid related posts will be gone!

I saw "all you're being asked to do is sit on your sofa" again yesterday. Grgh.

@WitchesSpelleas

I genuinely doubt that people will still be commemorating Covid in fifty years' time

Sadly I'll be dead by then or I'd offer you a wager that they will. People have recorded every detail of their Covid experience on social media, blogs, their own cameras etc. Spanish Flu was sandwiched between two World Wars, whereas Covid has struck following a long period with no such worldwide disruption - it's the biggest event of many people's lifetimes. In an era where people celebrate what they had for breakfast seven years ago because it's popped up on their Facebook timeline, Coronavirus won't be forgotten.

I know this is a tangent, but I'd be very surprised (and very pleased!) if this DOES turn out to be the biggest event in many people's lives, because the next fifty years would have to be blessedly safe and stable for that to happen. I'm forty and I'd be delighted if I never encounter anything worse than Covid, which really is quite mild from a historical point of view (our reaction to it is a little more unprecedented, but there there you go shrug).

So glad I don’t use FB. I had it a few years ago and it was so tedious. People checking in at hospital for attention, others posting shitty political opinions for attention, selfies for attention. It’s all me, me, me on there.