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Anyone else feeling depressed about Covid?

295 replies

bluetuesdayy · 19/10/2021 18:38

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?

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itsgettingwierd · 20/10/2021 05:19

I find I'm worrying about getting it and having to isolate more now!

I think it's because everything has open end up so there is actually things to be missing iyswim?!

I also agree with poster early on in thread who said the issue is the black and white thinking. The all or nothing.

We need mitigations one place but our government are weak and won't do that.

Farwest · 20/10/2021 05:33

@MarshaBradyo

I find restrictions more depressing than actual virus

Like many we’ve had it recently, we’ve been pretty good for ages with complying. But yeh people calling out for more restrictions is what I find annoying.

Spoken like someone who has not watched a loved one die from this.
Vivana · 20/10/2021 06:30

Nope not worried at all

Crunchymum · 20/10/2021 06:32

The way in which things are being reported seems to have shifted over the past few days.

I suspect that means the narrative is set to change. This whole pandemic has been media (sorry science) led.

Lostinacloud · 20/10/2021 06:36

100% agree and notice the same @Crunchymum

Noluthando · 20/10/2021 06:36

No? Maybe I just haven't seen the news recently. I feel fine and stopped looking at the figures a couple of months ago.

hopjumpskipplop · 20/10/2021 06:42

We have recently had Covid caught via Dc getting it at school. We suffered more than DC, but it certainly lingers. It was worse than a bad cold. I had a bad chest infection last year and that was less intense than Covid. I felt awful with covid , but now I've had it I suppose it's less to worry about. Even though I was double jabbed and less than 6 months ago, so whether it helped or not.I wasn't going crazy, but I was living and not mask wearing.

I was annoyed DC school didn't even try to stop the spread by giving close contacts a head up, but seems they don't have to. Very different approach considering the school have a one way system to stop Covid spread Hmm

superplumb · 20/10/2021 06:44

I don't think they'll be a lockdown we couldnt afford one.
Masks and distancing shouldn't have stopped

Tryagainplease · 20/10/2021 06:49

I don’t think masks are the first answer here at all.
One of the main issues I can see is that people are still mixing with others when they have a positive case in their house.

I’ve seen it happen in our office a few times. We can pretty much go in or wfh whenever we please, and yet people have insisted on going in to the office when they have children at home with Covid. Yes, it may not be illegal but it’s bloody short-sighted of them!

Tryagainplease · 20/10/2021 06:50

@Crunchymum

The way in which things are being reported seems to have shifted over the past few days.

I suspect that means the narrative is set to change. This whole pandemic has been media (sorry science) led.

Spot on!
DockOTheBay · 20/10/2021 06:55

@Sunset999

Random one but did anyone like the lockdowns? I did....slower pace of life, quiet roads and got to really appreciate simple things
Absolutely not My children missing out on education, socialising and family time. My small baby not meeting family until she was several months old. Businesses going bust left right and centre. No thanks.

If you like the slower pace of life you can make changes in your own life to facilitate that.

motherrunner · 20/10/2021 07:08

@aurynne

The problem is, a lot of you are "not worrying" because you are not one of the nurses or doctors who will have to spend shift after shift caring for COVID patients in an understaffed, overstressed ward with half the other nurses and doctors sick with COVID or in isolation at home for a sniffle. Or teachers who will work among covid-infested students. If this continues like this, health professionals and teachers will eventually resign en masse, because they will get tired of carrying the majority of the pandemic work and responsibility on their shoulders while the rest of the population "doesn't worry" and "goes on about their life as normally". I bet they would like to, also.
This is exactly how myself and my colleagues feel.
MrsJackWhicher · 20/10/2021 07:10

@MarshaBradyo

I find restrictions more depressing than actual virus

Like many we’ve had it recently, we’ve been pretty good for ages with complying. But yeh people calling out for more restrictions is what I find annoying.

This. The first lockdown was unprecedented-people were shocked snd scared and complied. People won’t comply again other than those who are preternaturally fearful anyway.
Original poster
bluetuesdayy · 20/10/2021 07:22

@MrsJackWhicher surely people will be thinking, well if it was 'safe' for me to go to work / see granny / go to a concert 6 weeks ago why it is not now?

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MarshaBradyo · 20/10/2021 07:39

Spoken like someone who has not watched a loved one die from this.

Yes we’ve had different experiences is that news to you? These comments that try to tell other people how to feel are odd and controlling.

MarshaBradyo · 20/10/2021 07:41

Maybe some don’t like that fear as a tool will fail to control people.

We’ve had it used for over a year and a half.

rrhuth · 20/10/2021 07:42

[quote bluetuesdayy]@MrsJackWhicher surely people will be thinking, well if it was 'safe' for me to go to work / see granny / go to a concert 6 weeks ago why it is not now?[/quote]
That would be a pretty stupid thought, given case rates change and the NHS being full has a big effect on outcomes.

Reallyimeanreally2022 · 20/10/2021 07:43

Not in the slightest
Not even a tiny bit

I’m on holiday. With the children. They are loving school. No social distancing. Everything open. I’m back in office couple of days a week and love it. Socialising with friends. No masks.

All good. Better than good.

Reallyimeanreally2022 · 20/10/2021 07:44

My large SE town on outskirts of London

0 covid deaths for last three days.
0

rrhuth · 20/10/2021 07:44

@Tryagainplease

I don’t think masks are the first answer here at all. One of the main issues I can see is that people are still mixing with others when they have a positive case in their house.

I’ve seen it happen in our office a few times. We can pretty much go in or wfh whenever we please, and yet people have insisted on going in to the office when they have children at home with Covid. Yes, it may not be illegal but it’s bloody short-sighted of them!

100% this - the removal of isolation for household contacts when we had such high cases was completely idiotic.
Reallyimeanreally2022 · 20/10/2021 07:44

I didn’t bother going back further than 3 days

Lilifer · 20/10/2021 07:46

@Reallyimeanreally2022

Not in the slightest Not even a tiny bit

I’m on holiday. With the children. They are loving school. No social distancing. Everything open. I’m back in office couple of days a week and love it. Socialising with friends. No masks.

All good. Better than good.

Agree!

Also can we please acknowledge that we are now coming in to respiratory virus season and given that covid is the predominant (to put it mildly) virus doing the rounds at the moment it's therefore going to take the people that flu would normally have taken, only they didn't give us daily numbers of flu hospitalizations in deaths in the past the way they do now with covid.

rrhuth · 20/10/2021 07:48

@Reallyimeanreally2022

I didn’t bother going back further than 3 days
If you think your super-local data is relevant, you are a bit Confused

There's so much rubbish talked about COVID.

So what if there have been 0 deaths there in the stats. Utterly meaningless extract.

Skyla2005 · 20/10/2021 07:48

If you are genuinely feeling depressed then you need to stop watching the news. Get on with your life

tiffanyshoes · 20/10/2021 07:49

No. The furlough scheme is over

If we lock down and close the leisure and hospitality industry again, it will be chaos

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