Yes this country could be an awful lot worse than it is now and I'm sure you have observed such countries. We don't have to accept that our country will become like those.
But you don't get to choose. You can argue all you like but you have no control at all. If you recognise the danger and choose to not take action just in case, that is obviously your choice to make. But better that you recognise that crime could go through the roof on the back off mass unemployment and you may be terrified to leave your home. Better to think about it now when you can make reasonably rational judgements than later if it happens and it come as a complete surprise. Hell, we all want things to be different. But we don't get to choose, and it isn't.
That is not a natural state for any human or one that has existed in any civilised society before. We don't have a blueprint for how to deal with that. It is not about getting other people to solve things for you but it IS about thinking up, offering and accepting help from other people.
Well at least you accept the possibility that this is an ongoing crisis and are able to rationally discuss it without getting hysterical and dealing up victim cards. Yes, we need to discuss it, and yes we need solutions, but we need to be looking at the long game, in case we are in rolling lockdowns and distance learning for the next decade. Coming together and finding solutions may only be a forum and Zoom concept. We don't know. We can assume that going forward we are only going to have the lack of one-to-one socialisation to deal with, but we would be remiss in ignoring how much we do enjoy and how much more of a leveller this might be as far as the world as a whole is concerned.
To put it in perspective, it only takes a sustained power outage to remove everyone's ability to pay for food, withdraw money from backs, fill their cars with fuels, go online to find out what is happening, use the mobile phone network, or use any of the computers they need to do their jobs. A week in to a power outage hospitals cease using machines if they cannot get fuel for their generators. They cease operations when their supplies of gasses runs out. Gas bottling plants do not have generators of their own, and need electricity to fill gas cylinders even if they could get fuel to get the cylinders to hospitals. 72 hours into a power outage everything we have in freezers is spoiled and we are dependant on local shops dishing out what they do have and people not being greedy.
And that is the loss of a single utility. That is one single possible emergency added onto the top of the current one. Now, you might say, that can't possibly happen. But then I'm guessing at Christmas 2019 the majority of people would never have thought the entire world could be put into lockdown together and they'd be at home for most of the following year, and I'd bet most people here don't think they'll be in lockdown this coming Christmas and having these exact same discussions on MN next January.
I just think hiding from reality doesn't work for most people. I do recognise that there are some with MH problems that need assistance. It may be a good idea to hide what may be in the future from them (which is what our Govt. is doing with its, just a little bit longer' campaign'), but you cannot change what is from them.
When you say 'accepted it and moved on with their lives' what the fuck do you even mean? Accepted the situation you've created in this little imaginary scenario? Or moving on right now locked down in houses with no social interaction?
I meant accept that we are in lockdown and it is unlikely to change any time soon. Accept that it might get worse an think ahead. I personally think we'll see a let up in the summer, measures to try to stop idiots from holidaying abroad coupled with encouragement to holiday in the UK, followed by greater restrictions in the autumn, an attempt at a firebreak lockdown during the October break, failure of that lockdown. Another more stringent firebreak lockdown in early December, freedom to do as we please within boundaries at Christmas, followed by complete lockdown January through April 2022. Compared to what might happen, I'm pretty positive none of it will.
Regarding institutions to deal with MH problems, we have a huge NHS with a multi-billion pound budget. It is free, even if there is a Postcode lottery when it comes to competence and availability. Some say it is the best in the world, and if so, then we have little to complain about on that score.