To wonder why we’re still obsessed with Covid.

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Three times as many people are dying of cancer every single day. More than ten times as many people are dying every day of other causes. But we aren’t getting daily updates about these on every news bulletin or website. Yes, people should get vaccinated, yes occasionally people are still getting very ill with it, and some are dying. But it is very far from being the great danger that it was 12-18 months ago. Can we just move on from the endless focus on it now?

@MrsJBaptiste

I don't think it's always a case of not understanding, for some of us it just isn't a huge deal anymore. My kids haven't missed school or college since before the summer and we only know 3 or 4 people that have tested positive in as many months. It just isn't on my radar anymore (except when I went to the doctors and had to wear a mask) as everything is back to normal for us.

What you have described is just that you're oblivious.

@MrsBerthaRochester oh well as long as its only the unhealthy children that die, that's ok then. Can you even hear yourself?

Check the news and come back.

Thats not what I said. Sadly more children will probably die from other conditions due to the delay in treatment(far far more than will die WITH covid) so some 80 year olds can live a few more months.
I know which I think is the bigger tragedy.

YABU. Starting a new covid thread about why people can't just move on from covid
These other illnesses that people are dying from or close to, would you call out anyone for being "obsessed" with them?

As pp said, it's new. It's the first time weve experienced a pandemic. It's not only affected physical health but mental health, education, businesses, income. It's important not to underestimate how challenging this has been for some people. It's still current.
I don't know anyone who is obsessed with covid. People are just getting along the best they can.

@MrsBerthaRochester - some may also die due to catching covid on top of whatever else they have. Immunosuppressed people (eg on chemo) may not fare so well if they have covid. Or docs may delay their operation/treatment until they are covid negative (so that patients don’t get additional complications).

One of the things that is killing people with cancer is that the ITU beds are full of (mostly unvaccinated) people with covid, so the cancer surgeries keep getting cancelled.

Because I have it at the moment and it’s shit.

Also because the primary school I work at has been closed for a week by Public Health as there are so many cases at the moment.

So that’s 500 + families (kids and staff) in my small town affected right now.

Because Covid halted everyone in their tracks, and tripped off a tsunami of health anxiety for many. And now those can't let that anxiety go. There are daily threads on here from people who are limiting the lives of themselves and their kids - and all from a fear that is so deep rooted that they may never be able to move on from it.

It's all to easy to forget -or ignore that 80% of people who catch Covid are asymptomatic.

@MrsBerthaRochester

Thats not what I said. Sadly more children will probably die from other conditions due to the delay in treatment(far far more than will die WITH covid) so some 80 year olds can live a few more months. I know which I think is the bigger tragedy.

Bit mentionitis of the elderly to say you don't hate the fact they're alive still. Mind you, an AS shows you have form for it.

Yes YABVU

Oh you did an AS on me? Wow...you really have a lot of time on your hands. I am as entitled to my opinion as you are to yours. The statistics do the real talking. It is a mild illness for the VAST majority. Fact .

Am actually speechless by the idiocy of the OP but notice they haven't really ventured back since the start. Goady much...

Agreed. Can't be bothered about covid, vaccinations, masks or the constant tests anymore. It's just another disease/potential way to depart from this world, amongst many many others.

I am in Ireland and apparently we are going to have a full on lockdown here again

Wtaf are you talking about? 🙄

@MrsBerthaRochester

Yanbu. The simple fact is that most of the folk who have died with covid(and I use with deliberately) have been elderly. For the vast majority its a minor illness. The narrative that all nhs beds are being taken up by non vaccinated is nonsense. Time to live with it.

Yeah, fuck the elderly. Gonna die soon anyway, right?

No-one that I know is still obsessed with Covid.

The only time that I've seen the word in the last 2 months has been on Mumsnet.

If someone in my village dies from cancer it’s is obviously sad but doesn’t really affect my life very much if I don’t know them. If someone gets covid then it may affect me as it’s highly contagious and may close local service es. That’s probably the main difference.

It's still highly contagious - I work in a primary school and it is rife, so many children and staff off with the virus. I've had both jabs and was due to get my booster today, but tested positive for Covid on Monday.

More people will die of cancer if the beds are full of covid patients. The knock on impact is hideous. We can’t put a cancer patient next to a covid patient so bed configurations in a hospital are an absolutely nightmare. In my 10 years in the nhs we’ve have 3 wards per winter impacted by noro outbreaks and that’s a 48 hour isolation so 10 days is a whole other ball game. Plus noro would usually happen on a handful of occasions (if it were a bad year). We’re in a constant state of potential outbreak and internal critical capacity incidents (although we’re banned from publicly saying this).

If someone gets covid then it may affect me as it’s highly contagious

If you're double vaxxed and low risk it's just another nasty virus (at worst)

Pandemics are mother natures own population control
This one isn't really very effective at that, directly. It is quite efficient at pushing systems to the verge of collapse, though.

Why bother posting shite threads and never replying? Why not just bore off?

Because if you have cancer / heart disease / lung desease or you are pregnant - AND you get covid, you're much more likely to die.

The implications of long covid are not yet known. Post polio syndrome was a problem and this could be too.

And people with covid are an extra burden on the NHS which could impact all our ability to get essential treatment for other conditions.

It's embedded in our world now.

Oh ffs it hasn't gone away. I don't know what you do for a job but I work in a hospital (semi-rural, locally low infection rates, high vaccine take up) and it's been getting awfully corpsey again the last few weeks. We have gone from one covid ward a couple of months ago to having three or four in constant operation. And fyi the dying aren't all elderly or previously sick or obese by a long way.

Honestly though if I could avoid cancer by wearing a face mask and PPE I would but that's not possible so the comparison is a bit stupid really isn't it?