Anyone else feeling depressed about Covid?

[bluetuesdayy]

Cases, deaths and hospitalisations all rising.

Media drip feeding about pressure on the NHS and new variants.

Feel like it's Groundhog Day with this government. Surely they cannot lock us down completely again?

Well, it is becoming clear that vaccinations on their own will not do it.

We can start wearing masks, using vaccination passes, washing hands, and keeping our distance.

Or we can pretend that everything is fine and keep going on about living with the virus, until we get another lockdown or worse.

Enough people having it will mean another variant, which might as well kill us all.

I don't think you would find restrictions more annoying than the virus if you caught it.

She literally said in the post you quoted that she'd had it 😂

I'm sorry you're feeling so low.
To answer your question, no, I don't. But everyone's different and how you feel matters.

I do feel depressed but at the thought of hundreds or thousands more people dying from Covid. I don't mind lockdowns if they save lives.

Where I am, NO ONE is wearing a mask. There are vague recommendations and noises about personal responsibility. I would prefer a mask mandate.

The death rate today was the biggest since March. It’s only October.

Europe is doing fine. They have restaurants, bars, cinemas, trains. They are living. But they show a pass when they go into a restaurant and they wear a mask on the train. Much easier than tolerating another lockdown, which is what we’ll be doing next.

@KT727 do they though? Don't they just spread it out? If you're going to die from it, you'll die whenever catch it.

I don’t think lockdowns are needed. I just think sensible mitigations, like distancing and mask wearing, would make a huge difference.

@EatYourVegetables

Well, it is becoming clear that vaccinations on their own will not do it.

We can start wearing masks, using vaccination passes, washing hands, and keeping our distance.

Or we can pretend that everything is fine and keep going on about living with the virus, until we get another lockdown or worse.

Enough people having it will mean another variant, which might as well kill us all.

Exactly- it really needs to be safety measures like masks and hand hygiene, keeping a safe distance from strangers etc. OR more extreme but less frequent measures like lockdowns.

To be honest, it’s barely on my radar. And I say that as someone who’s currently isolating after testing positive (thankfully with no symptoms).

Europe is doing fine. They have restaurants, bars, cinemas, trains. They are living. But they show a pass when they go into a restaurant and they wear a mask on the train

I'm in ROI and we have all of that and our numbers are skyrocketing 🤷‍♀️

[quote bluetuesdayy]@KT727 do they though? Don't they just spread it out? If you're going to die from it, you'll die whenever catch it.[/quote]
You may die from it if you catch it at another time BUT if you develop a serious case at a time when there is no ventilator available for you because the intensive care unit is overrun with Covid cases then you're much more likely to die a preventable death.

@EatYourVegetables

Well, it is becoming clear that vaccinations on their own will not do it.

We can start wearing masks, using vaccination passes, washing hands, and keeping our distance.

Or we can pretend that everything is fine and keep going on about living with the virus, until we get another lockdown or worse.

Enough people having it will mean another variant, which might as well kill us all.

Masks have very little impact, they have a maximum reduction of transmission of around 20% in an "ideal use" scenario, however in a "real world" scenario they reduce spread by

@EatYourVegetables

Well, it is becoming clear that vaccinations on their own will not do it.

We can start wearing masks, using vaccination passes, washing hands, and keeping our distance.

Or we can pretend that everything is fine and keep going on about living with the virus, until we get another lockdown or worse.

Enough people having it will mean another variant, which might as well kill us all.

Another variant which might well kill us all

Is this statement even serious!!!! Talk about scaremongering. I don't even understand the mentality of this unless you get a kick out of it. OP please ignore this.

I'm in Wales, so have never stopped wearing a mask inside public spaces. I am also a glasses wearer so it is moderately annoying (particularly now it is wet outside and heating on inside so streaming up worse) but masks are really not something to get depressed about. If compulsory mask wearing over the winter is the worse that happens then happy days.

@DoctorSnortles

How about people wear masks and keep their bloody distance, for starters?

It’s all very well flinging oneself around about lockdowns, but if people wore masks, stopped breathing on each other and stopped pretending that Covid isn’t caught from sitting around chatting in enclosed spaces we might be able to get a handle on it.

Secondary school kids need to be back in masks, too. Case rates are insanely high in my school, thanks to the government guidelines which are basically ‘Pretend Covid doesn’t exist. Open a window, but only if no-one will get too chilly.’

Ffs. Let's social distance so we don't have to social distance, let's lockdown so we don't have to lockdown.. yeah that makes sense 🙄 unless we end up getting cases to 0, covid will never go away as long as people are sociable. And I'm not living my life like i did last year for any longer. The government can call for a lockdown all the want but quite frankly they can fuck off if they think im spending another winter not seeing friends or family.

Lots of people have got ill from airborne viruses for hundreds of years. And died. People are getting ill from this non covid super-cold that's going around.

Unless you were campaigning for mask wearing before covid, it's a bit rich to start now.

The majority of people getting covid now aren't any more ill than if they'd caught a winter virus. Especially if they're vaccinated.

There won't be another lockdown, because as soon as they start shutting things they have to start paying people's wages. A few token gestures will be made to appease those demanding something should be done, and the rest of us will carry on as normal.

I find restrictions more depressing than actual virus if you have lost a loved one I imagine you would feel differently.
I don’t want restrictions but they are preferably to thousands of excess deaths.
Schools need to go back to the old system of classes self isolating for unvaccinated pupils and staff. Track and trace self isolations should apply to unvaccinated children. Masks should be mandatory in all indoor venues including schools and mask exempt should be only those who genuinely can’t wear a mask a tiny percentage not anyone who chooses not to.

Other countries manage these things just fine.
If masks and self isolations were re introduced and mandatory there would be no need for another lockdown.

Nope, been there done that.
Now too busy suffering from whatever this other hideous virus is, the one we’ve not had a chance to build any resistance to because we’ve been locked in our houses for 18 months.

@amylou8

There won't be another lockdown, because as soon as they start shutting things they have to start paying people's wages. A few token gestures will be made to appease those demanding something should be done, and the rest of us will carry on as normal.

Hey the government aren’t made of money, who knew?

No i'm not depressed about it.

3 or 4 cases in DDs class at school (yr3). DH has just had it. I've had it. DDs best mate has it right now. All mild. All adults double jabbed in our house.

It's not going to go away. I think everyone is going to get it at least once.

The media are hugely responsible for the hysteria that is being whipped up over COVID. The media like to drip drip drip the idea of a lockdown even if it hasn’t been suggested.

Masks should be compulsory in the flu season anyway. Most of the Far East manage to wear masks even outside of covid without constantly wining about them, it baffles me that people here are incapable of doing the same. And I speak as someone who is entitled to an exemption due to being vulnerable but who chooses to wear a mask anyway.

The truth here is that we need to start finding a way to live with COVID. yes the figures are high, but the deaths really are not. More people will be dying of flu now than COVID. If you published how many people catch the flue/even a cold every year those would look like a pandemic as well.

No it’s not pleasant. But neither are an awful lot of illnesses. And as long as people have been vaccinated they are far, far less likely to die if they catch it.

We need to be aware that there are numerous infectious diseases around at this time of year, and we should be taking appropriate precautions to mitigate against all of them. And COVID is just one of those.

@Mybalconyiscracking

Nope, been there done that. Now too busy suffering from whatever this other hideous virus is, the one we’ve not had a chance to build any resistance to because we’ve been locked in our houses for 18 months.

Where do you live where you’ve been locked in your house for 18 months?

@DoctorSnortles

Where do you live where you’ve been locked in your house for 18 months?

No need to be pedantic. Quite clearly they mean we've been kept apart for 18 months, and all thats happened is everyone's ill as our immune systems haven't been used to socialising again.

@DoctorSnortles

I don’t think lockdowns are needed. I just think sensible mitigations, like distancing and mask wearing, would make a huge difference.

I agree. The restrictions when I went on holiday seemed to make my environment feel a lot less risky than mixing with people in this country.