corona lockdowns

[firthy85]

i watched a post on a thread where someone was jumping around all over the place to maintain social distancing with a dog and a dd and ds so they could keep a distance. am i the only person to think its getting rediculous?. covid seems to have sent the population into some crazy paranoid mess. let's clean everything just to be safe. let's jump out of the way of a coughing person just in case they have caught it. never mind the fact it is december its the beginning of winter so it means that these illnesses get caught. it is just me right?

Have you being asleep for the last 9 months?

I think most people are just doing their best under very unusual circumstances. Seems unfair to write people off as ‘crazy paranoid messes’.

Yeah, the scaremongering has really done a number on a lot of people. Personally, I think it's time they got a grip.

This virus is killing people before their time.

This virus is giving people long.

There is nothing more to say unless you know people who've been seriously unwell or dead and just don't give a shit.

People have different attitudes to risk. They also have different levels of actual risk. I try and be kind to those " more risk averse" than me as well as those who are less cautious than me. There is just too much hate around already i dont want to add to it.

Well I now know of two people's parents who have died of COVID whilst they did have underlying health conditions they would still be here but for COVID maybe for many years I also have a very clinically vulnerable mum so I'm not keen on passing anything on to her and a Dh who has type 2 diabetes so yes I'm trying to avoid it untill the vaccine program vaccinated those at most risk at least

i sometimes thinkg although we are understandably worried we ahve become stupid towards it

sorry my phone went a bit strange. i meant we have become jumpy over things that we used to see as normal such as winter colds, etc

don't know. maybe i am wrong but it feels like we ahve sometimes stepped into a weird universe

Ds is at high risk, so yes, I probably am a bit jumpy, not stupidly so in my opinion, but you might think differently!

@firthy85

don't know. maybe i am wrong but it feels like we ahve sometimes stepped into a weird universe

Well, yes we have...but then I've never been in a pandemic before, have you?

We’ve been mostly shielding (apart from DD going to school and essential shopping).
A man shouted at me the other day because I walked past him on the street not wearing a mask. I think some people can’t cope with finding a reasonable ground with it.

@firthy85

sorry my phone went a bit strange. i meant we have become jumpy over things that we used to see as normal such as winter colds, etc

But this isn’t a normal winter cold though is it? I don’t think it’s a huge leap of logic to see why people might be panicking a bit. It’s not like we are in a worldwide pandemic because of the usual winter sniffles.

i do feel sorry for people at higher risk. and yes it is scary. but i also think sometimes we are forgetting the time of year it is. i suffer with bad summer allergies such as hayfever etc although surprisingly this year it hasn't been too bad. it just gets so stupid when we automaticly assume a person has covid because they have a little cough and sneeze. it's one thing doing what you can to stay as safe as possible, but it's another to overreact to everything around you.

ps what things we do now about the virus the majority of people that have died have died because they already had underlying health conditions which caused other complications. i have generally tried to keep myself to myself. the occasional pub outing just to get out for a little while but always try to keep a distance. all we can do is hope the vaccines are given out quickly so that we can begin a return to normal although i do think if we had taken action at the beginning of the year we would be back to normal now

I think it’s perfectly normal to stay as far away from people who are coughing as possible. Yes it could be a normal winter cold but it could be Covid or even both so why take my chances? I still go out to the pub etc but if someone is coughing I ensure me and the family stay well away from them. If they want to be offended then that’s their issue not mine.

@Tellmetruth4

tellmetruth, don't know what happened it tagged you but without my message. yes it sounds to me like your trying to be sensible its hard and despite the thread i don't have the answers. maybe if it was easier to get tested things would calm down a little with the histeria?

@firthy85

sorry my phone went a bit strange. i meant we have become jumpy over things that we used to see as normal such as winter colds, etc

You can't compare a common cold that's over and done with in a week, with a potentially killer infection like COVID19 which can destroy lung cells and starve the sufferer of O2. The only thing they have in common is that they are both variants of coronavirus, that's about it.

i sometimes thinkg although we are understandably worried we ahve become stupid towards it

Who do you mean by "we" ? There are billions of people involved in this pandemic, people are dealing with it in many different ways, from being extremely risk-averse and going beyond what is recommended in terms of safeguards all the way through to attending raves and all-night parties because they don't take it seriously, and everything in between those two polarities- generalising a whole planet's behaviour as "we" is misguided.

This virus is killing people before their time

The flu kills people before their time
Cars kill people before their time
Etc etc
Literally millions of avoidable deaths happen and we do sod all to prevent them, generally speaking, day in day out.
I don’t know what makes covid so special, but I’ll tell you this - in the long run more people are going to die as a result of this years lockdowns than will have died from the virus. Poverty, depression, undiagnosed, untreated cancers etc.

Don’t get me wrong, I do my bit, I wear my mask and I socially distance, but I think that everything else, all the business closures and lockdowns, you are right op the world has gone bonkers.

I think quite a few people's anxiety is spiralling right up. It's worrisome because that can get out of control, and it doesn't always resolve once even when the original problem is under control.

@eminybob yes well said. i am all for taking it seriously the people going out raving etc and then coming on the news saying they were doing things like socially distancing who are they kidding? but your right all the business closures and locking down is going to cause much more anxiety once the pandemic is over we will be dealing with the fallout from this for a long time.

ever wondered what sweeden's secret is? people took precautions yes, people socially distanced yes but people were left to get on with their lives with governments just giving people advice on the best ways to deal with it but they didn't lockdown the country and they have not had half as many deaths from covid as we have had in this country. now that may not actually mean anything if sweeden is a smaller country(my geography fails me lol)

I also think the risk is exaggerated and I don't think bring overly fearful is very good for yiur health anyway - studies show that health anxiety is linked to lower life expectancy.

But governments the world over cannot risk being seen to ignore the virus, so they need to ramp up the fear factor to justify the controls on peoples' lives. And in the UK, the nhs is performing incredibly badly by not treating other illnesses, but conveniently, that can be blamed on covid too.

I do question whether these lockdowns have prolonged the course of this virus, by preventing its normal spread through society. Lockdowns only seem to result in...more lockdowns.

I think the last 9 months have fucked up a lot of people's mental health in different ways. If I made a thread about my thoughts on a low day it would be just as ridiculous.