To be sad 2020 is over

[Thewinterofdiscontent]

To me, 2020 was the one random year in a years of progressively twatty years to give to give us freedom.
The year public health overtook profit. The year free giving and raising money became the norm. The year people who were just about money couldn’t be knobs about it,
The year we had to think about what we grow, produce and make and how this effects others.

I’m dreading 2021 frankly. It’s going to be a nasty whiney year of recriminations.

No due respect here. Fuck off

Ah, nevermind. But this is why I love the English language

Summerdays

I hear you, diagnosed last September with breast cancer, finished last treatment on the 23rd of March, opened a bottle of fizz, (more symbolic than anything, ) and Boris the buffoon locked us down that evening, suffice to say this has been a shit year.

I know it is not cool to say so but 2020 was a fantastic year for me in the year. I lost my job at the start of Covid but I was close to retirement any way and so got access to a big chunk of my pension pot and basically have more money than I know how to spend now.

It's been a tale of two halves for me. Lost some people to Covid... but on the plus side I've had time with my son and to sort my house and slow down the pace of life.

Lol

I got a bit teary as we said goodbye to 2020. It's been a complete shit show and we now begin 2021 with kids not back in school & a ds about to start GCSE's in less than 2 weeks time with very little teaching time. I just feel so sad for my children & all they've missed out on.

Actually I am in healthcare and completely overwhelmed by how busy I am. Ive been very late home most days and worked through leave. But still I can appreciate that there has been a shift of the established ways of living and working that must not be left behind.

I appreciate that it's an unpopular opinion and lots of people have suffered in many different ways.

I however, agree with OP. I've enjoyed this year so much in my own wee bubble.

I can be glad it's over but if you think 2021 is going to be better you could be in for a nasty surprise. If the freedom is referring to Brexshit just carry on with the scenarios given above featuring a lot of Fs.

Actually, I’m neither glad nor sad. I remember how we all moaned about 2019, for nothing really. Alll the memes about how glad we are to see the back of it. 2019 seemed to many as an ordinary nothing year. And look what 2020 brought!

It’s been very bad for some. Ok for others. Great for a few. But the feeling of “well that behind us” that what we should avoid. Because that’s willful complacency and as we have seen, equality, rights, fairness and environmental work, don’t do well in complacency.

Idiot !

I sort of see what you're getting at OP but you have phrased it very clumsily. Think before you post next time.

Freedom!!!! I think you've had too much gin. If 2020 was your idea of freedom I'd hate to see suppression

I agree that it's been good for food supply chain workers/retail staff/carers etc to be recognised as essential workers but it would be much better if that recognition could be cemented by a pay rise and improved working conditions. That will never happen though.

I could have responded, the year I've been at work more than any other, the year my profession had been stretched and challenged like no other, the year i experienced aching loneliness because there's no other grown up in my household, the year my DC have developed social anxiety, the year I lost colleagues to covid . But that's not in the spirit of OP's post. I've had to make innovations at work to respond to patient need. I have learned loads, not least how resilient I am.

Oh the fucking irony.

Millions of people have lost either a loved one or a livelihood, and you think it’s great because it makes us less “selfish.”

Have you considered that the selfish one may be YOU and other idiots who like to act all enlightened because it’s other people dying or unable to put food on the table?

Some people might be a bit selfish about possessions but that fails in comparison to you dear, who is so fundamentally selfish you enjoy people’s misery because it lets you feel smug.

Go to hell with this.

All those dishing out the vicious personal attacks against the OP clearly missed the fact that her post opens with the words ‘to me’ - she’s not claiming to speak on behalf of anyone else or comment on anyone else’s experiences of the last year, so give over with the unnecessary abuse

No. Really no. Keep it to yourself please.

This comment is so astonishingly ill-judged. You sound like a student who's read the Communist Manifesto for the first time and suddenly think you've "got it".

It's a bit like an echo of the smugfest which came to light during the March/April/May lockdown of these people saying how lovely it was to be at home with their families growing marrows etc. A germ of good intention there but utterly wrong and tone deaf.

You say "public health overtook profit". This is glib, insensitive and inaccurate. There's always been public health. Public health didn't disappear There's been profit more recently but public health coexisted with it. To posit coronavirus as a reset which brought everyone back to basics is just plain wrong. Public health has been under extreme stress and has almost been broken and there're nothing noble or inspiring about people working themselves into the grave to deal with what should have been preventable deaths.

There's a place to consider the impact that coronavirus has had on our society and there's an argument that in some ways it has improved us. But to suggest that this was some great utopian reset, in a year when so many people have died in such awful circumstances, where families have been separated, and where millions of people have lost their livelihood, has an unpleasant and chillingly naïve Stalinist sound to it.

This is a long-winded way of saying you think appear to think you are much more intelligent than you actually are and you lack vast reserves of emotional intelligence. For the sake of your own dignity and the consideration of others, read and learn and listen a bit more before you post such ill thought out nonsense on here again.

@Veryverycalmnow

What does FTFOAWYGTFOSM mean?

It's short for FOAWYGTFOFTTTFOSMKFOUYGBHTFOA.

Are you one of the dicks currently shouting about ‘Freedom’ at Waterloo?

My brother, partner, mum and dad have it
The mum died today!

My sister has it, and her partner

My uncle is in Intensive care

My nan was in hospital last week, luckily is out

My partners friend died....

So stick ‘Freedom’ up your arse!!!!!!!

Objectively it was an awful year but personally 2019 was worse for me, I managed to find moments of joy in 2020, guess I'm lucky

2020-2021 same shit a different year.